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.
October 26th
Isaac Milton was sentenced to stand in the Pillory
at White-Chapel Bars, and fined five Nobles, for Sodomitical Practices.
(Universal
Spectator)
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.
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.
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.
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 £107.
on Saturday last.
December 12thThe 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)
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.
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.
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.
[1] Salt-Petre Bank in Whitechapel later became Dock Street. - THHOL
