'Laurence Duket or Duckett was a goldsmith and perhaps the son of John Duckett or Duket. See: 'Hackney: Settlement and Building to c.1800', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10: Hackney (1995), pp. 10-14. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22694 Date accessed: 15 June 2009.
fn.5 ... No fewer than sixteen persons, according to Stow, paid the penalty of death for the crime, a woman named Alice atte Bowe, the chief cause of the quarrel and the instigator of the murder, being burned alive; whilst several rich persons implicated were, according to the same authority, "hanged by the purse" after long imprisonment. (See 'The French Chronicle of London,' edited for the Camden Society by G. J. Aungier, pp. 18, 19, translated by Riley).
From: 'Wills: 18 Edward I (1289-90)', Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London: Part 1: 1258-1358 (1889), pp. 88-95. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66826#n5 Date accessed: 16 June 2009.