27-29 April 1699
At the west end of Saviours, alias St Mary Overy Church yard in Southwark, is a new bagnio, where any person may be sweated cupt and shav’d (after the best manner) for two shillings and sixpence, and for six pence more they may be bathed, every day for men, except Fridays, which is only for women. (The Post Man)
27 June 1719 Last week, at the King’s Bench Court, Westminster, one Elizabeth Carey, of the Parish of St. Martin’s in the Fields, having been found guilty of ten indictments, in keeping a disorderly house, was fined for eight of them half a Crown each, for the ninth to stand on the pillory, and for the tenth to be whipt from Charing-Cross to Somerset-House. Mary Whaley, of the said Parish, being also convicted of six indictments for the same offence, was for the first four fined half a Crown each, and for the fifth and sixth to be pilloried and whipt in the like manner as Elizabeth Carey. (Original Weekly Journal)
27 June 1719 On Thursday Elizabeth Carey and Mary Whaley stood on the pillory at Charing Cross, for keeping bawdy-houses, pursuant to their sentence afore-mentioni’d. Whaley had the impudence, when she mounted, to say, that if all her sex were to be punished in the like manner for venial offences, she doubted whether all the timber in Norway would be sufficient to make pillorys for them. (Original Weekly Journal)
28 January 1721 Last week William Laurence and his wife were convicted before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, at Guildhall, for keeping a notorious disorderly house in Chick-Lane, near West-Smithfield, harbouring loose, idle persons, night-walkers, and pickpockets. (London Journal)
23 January 1725 Sarah Kettleby, alias Blackerby, of Stepney Parish, convicted of keeping an ill-govern’d and disorderly room, and receiving and entertaining lewd and disorderly persons, whoring and misbehaving themselves, being poor, and not able to pay a fine, was order’d to be whipp’d at the cart’s tail, from the Angel and Crown Tavern in Crispin-Street in Spittle Fields, to Lamb-Street there, and from thence to Red-lyon-Street, and round to Pater-noster Row there, and from thence to the Angel and Crown aforesaid, and to be kept at the House of Correction to hard labour for fourteen days. [Weekly Journal, or The British Gazetteer ]
Saturday, 5 August 1727 One night this week about 9 o’clock a waterman belonging to the Dutchess of M—— ply’d a gentleman and a lady at Hungerford Stairs, who bid him row them to Chelsea Reach; where the gentleman order’d the waterman and his man to lye by their oars, while he occupied the lady in the boat, which the waterman refusing to do, the gentleman drew his sword, and then he submitted: But the next day set fire to his boat and burnt it to ashes, saying, he would not row a bawdy-house about the river. We hear, her Grace has given her waterman 3 guineas towards another wherry. (Weekly Journal: or, The British Gazetteer)
30 April 1730 Thursday, April 23. On Sunday night 3 Bridewel boys were taken into custody for attempting to rescue 4 women of the town out of the hands of the Constable; but the rest of the fraternity in Bridewel having notice of it, a party of them, armed with sticks, came to their assistance, who beat the watch and Constables to such a degree that they were obliged to release them. [Grub-street Journal]
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