1777-12-16 (static/transcriptions/1777/12/039.jpg)

1777. Sessions. [Tuesday] Dec. 16.

Goods wanting to lade Ships of which he was owner, and that Ram Ram Bose was his Banyan.
There was Evidence that supported this charge, and Impey very rightly summed up very strongly against both the Prisoners, and the Jury found them both Guilty.
My brother Chambers mention’d the case of Alexander Day of the Old Bailey to prove that telling such sort of lies as mention’d in the Indictment was an Indictable Offence. He shew’d me a book containing this case. It is not written in the manner of a Law Book, nor with the accuracy requisite for good reports of Law cases. The book is call’d “Select Trials at the Old Bailey” Vol:1 contains from 1720 to 1724. Vol:2 from 1724 to 1732. Two Volumes Octavo. The Case of Alexander Day alias Marmaduke Davenport Esquire is in Vol:1 page 313.
From that I find, that Four Indictments were found against Day, and that there were convictions and judgment of the Pillory on them, and that the Evidence against him was that he call’d himself Marmaduke Davenport, that he acted like a man of fortune, and pretended to be rich and the Son of a Baronet and to want several [ILL] things, and by those pretences he had
Obtain’d