Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.Malcolm, James Peller
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.
Malcolm, James Peller
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
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_Offenders._ | _Punishments._ | _No._
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GAINER, an Itinerant | Six Months |
Hawker. | Imprisonment.--Middlesex |
| Sessions. |
HARRIS, a Vender of Ballads| Two Years Imprisonment |
and Obscene Books and | and Pillory.--Westminster|
Prints, at Whitehall. | Sessions. | 7
BERTAZZI*, an Italian | Six Months Imprisonment. |
Itinerant Hawker. | Middlesex Sessions. |
BERTAZZI, on two other | Six Months Imprisonment |
Indictments. | for each offence, and |
| twice Pillory.--Court |
| of King's Bench. |
ANN AITKIN, Printseller, | One Year's Imprisonment |
Castle-street, | and hard Labour.--Court |
Leicester-fields. | of King's Bench. |
BAINES, Keeper of a Stall, | One Year's |
Skinner-street, | Imprisonment.--Old |
Snow-hill. | Bailey Sessions. |
* _N.B._ This man, in connection with many others, went
about the City selling obscene books and prints, at
boarding-schools of both sexes.
_Riotous and Disorderly Houses_, &c.
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_Offenders._ | _Punishments._ | _No._
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Four Keepers of Houses |All suppressed in a summary |
where unlawful Dances | way.--Before the Magistrates.| 11
were held, two on Sundays; | |
three Keepers of | |
Public-houses, and two | |
of Private Theatres--being | |
all receptacles for disorderly| |
and abandoned | |
characters, and places for | |
the seduction of youth of | |
both sexes; and two | |
Keepers of Brothels, | |
where practices of the | |
grossest prostitution were | |
carried on. | |
Lotteries and Little Goes._
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