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What punishment did Daniel Defoe receive for seditious libel in 1703?

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Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.

In 1703, after being prosecuted for seditious libel regarding his pamphlet The Shortest-Way With The Dissenters, Daniel Defoe was sentenced to pay a fine and to stand three times in the pillory.1

While Defoe was initially apprehensive about the punishment, he wrote the Hymn To The Pillory while awaiting his sentence. This act helped transform the event into a public triumph, as the crowd supported him, the pillory was decorated with garlands, and his poem was sold in the streets. Following this ordeal, he was returned to Newgate prison until his release was eventually secured by Robert Harley.1