A list of persons convicted at Winchester Castle of having Naval Stores in their posession or of stealing them, and the punishment they received was published in March 1801 as a warning to deter others from stealing from Portsmouth Dockyard. Joseph Hennem, a Master Blacksmith from Portsea was fined fifty pounds and imprisoned for twelve months for defacing the Broad Arrow, the mark used to identify government property. William Cook, a Dockyard Labourer was imprisoned for twelve months and "once publicly whipt". This article is from the 1801 Portsmouth Telegraph, or Naval and Military Journal, volume 2, please note that the image shown is of lower resolution and quality than the image on the CD-ROM.
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