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Someone
in the Tower Hamlets Local History Library, at some time, cut up 18th and 19th
century journals - the Gentleman's Magazine and the Illustrated
London News conspicuous among them - and stuck any references to the Tower
Hamlets area onto cards. These are now in the cuttings collection, mostly under
the parish subject numbers. I am working my way through these short items and
will be gradually building them into a series of Miscellanies.
Annoyingly, whoever did it rarely made
a note of where the cutting came from; usually there's just the year. So, in
most cases, that is all the information you will find here.
| 1728 |
October 26th
Isaac Milton was sentenced to stand in the Pillory at White-Chapel Bars,
and fined five Nobles, for Sodomitical Practices.
(Universal Spectator)
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| 1753 |
Yesterday at Hicks' Hall in
St. John's Street, before the Bench of Justices, four Persons were tried for
keeping disorderly and common Bawdy Houses, in the Parish of St. Mary,
Whitechapel, and convicted of the same. One Mary Cunningham was sentenced to
stand in or upon the Pillory once within three Months, for two Hours, and to be
imprisoned in Newgate for one Year; two others are to be pilloried, and
confin'd in Newgate six Months, and each to pay 1 s. Fine; the fourth for
keeping a disorderly common Lodging-House, to be confined in Bridewell for one
Month. Two, convicted last Sessions of keeping notorious Bawdy-Houses, were
sentenced to stand in the Pillory on Monday next, in Ayliff-Street, Goodman's
Fields.
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| 1759 |
Thursday Elizabeth Warner,
otherwise Betty, was committed to Newgate, on the Coroner's inquisition, for
the murder of her bastard child, at the Man in the Moon, in Whitechapel.
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| 1763 |
Yesterday morning early a
seafaring man was found murdered in Church-lane, near the Mulbury Garden,
Stepney. It is thought he lost his life in a bad house in that neighbourhood.
He had a great gash in his throat, and a great hole in his belly. It is said he
received 107l. on Saturday last.
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| 1763 |
December 12th
The sessions ended at the Old Bailey, when six convicts received sentence of
death, viz. John Brannon for a highway robbery; John Edenburgh, a Black, for
horse stealing; Joseph Jervis for burglareously breaking a house; Ch. Riley,
Mary Robinson, and Mary Williams, for robbing a young sailor of his
prize-money; the two women first pulled him to a house at Salt-petre-bank [1], but not being strong enough to rob him, they call'd in
Riley, who with a naked knife, threatened to cut out his liver if he did not
deliver the money.
(Gentleman's Magazine)
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| 1765 |
On Saturday last Mary
Walpole, for keeping a notorious Bawdy-House in Church-Lane, White-Chapel, was
sentenced, at Hicks's-Hall, to suffer one Year's Imprisonment, and to stand in
the Pillory twice during that Time, once at the Maypole in East Smithfield, and
again at the Corner of Back-Lane, White-Chapel.
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| 1774 |
Early on Sunday morning, as
some milk people were going a milking in the fields near Stepney, they found a
young man and woman laying in the soil, where the necessaries are deposited,
quite suffocated; they were taken to St. George's Church-yard to be owned, when
the young man proved to be a Journeyman Tobacconist in Wapping, and the young
woman one of those wretches who frequent New Vauxhall; as they were seen
together the preceeding evening at that place, it supposed they had got
themselves intoxicated with liquor, and missed their way, which was the
occasion of the above accident.
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| 1780 |
On Tuesday the father and
brother of a young lady who had eloped from them about three days, found her at
a house of ill-fame in Great-Aylif-street, Goodman's fields, and could not
without great difficulty take her away in a coach, to the general satisfaction
of a numerous croud of spectators.
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[1] Salt-Petre Bank in Whitechapel later
became Dock Street. - THHOL
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