Why was Henry in prison?

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Q I believe I have found a document on Ancestry ( ancestry.co.uk) that shows my ancestor, Henry Brinkman, being released from Fleet Prison in 1802. He was born in either 1787 or 1790, so he would have been 12 or 15 at the time. What was the Fleet...

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