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125:... did entertain divers loose Persons, Men and Women suspected to have committed bawrdy...the said Elizabeth having lately taken a House ... for which she paid Β£100 for a Fine and a Rent of Β£40 per annum, whereunto many Persons well-habited have resorted by Day as by Nyght ... continued Drinking, Ranting, Dancing, Revelling, Swearing ... demeaning themselves as well on the Lord's Day and Fast Days. Witnesses told of seeing men and women going into rooms, 'the Woman having stript to her Bodice and Petticoat going into a room where they have shut the Casement and locked the Door ... some Company drunk about a dozen bottles of wine and further that divers Women suspected of Lightness have ... did surreptitiously slip in at a back gate whereby much infamy is brought upon the Place. 235:, the King's lover, notorious for her own wild promiscuity. Some historians, such as Linnane, infer an active role of the addressers Page and Cresswell in the writing of the document. Others such as Mowry and Turner suggest it is an organ of political ventriloquism on behalf of anonymous, radical dissenters. In an act of brazen public satire, the two brothel owners request that the aristocrat act on the behalf of her "sisters" and repay the madams for the rebuilding of their brothels, funded by the national tax coffers. They address Castlemaine as a prostitute herself and list the sites of the brothels where her fellows struggle. It is addressed as: 304: 211: 171: 286:, who gave large banquets for his political affiliates at Cresswell's house in Camberwell. These were said often to turn into orgies. On one occasion, Cresswell provisioned such a party with 300 prostitutes; the story of the night was promptly turned into a local ballad. Cresswell bankrolled Player's career during this period, which gave her leverage in the political and financial underworld but also made her fierce enemies. Player's support for the anti-Catholic rebel 22: 409:, the adaptation featured a caricature of Cresswell as a philosopher teaching her lifetime's worth of sexual tricks and wiles to Dorethea, the fallen daughter of a ruined royalist. In this satirical parody, the madam advises her young student: "You must cloath your discourse with a meek, grave, and pious aspect, to make your sophistry pass for sincere and real". She recommends researching the nature of the client: 142:, Mother Cresswell was regarded as one of the great figures of the London scene, with a talent for self-promotion. She declared she had "Beauties of all Complexions, from the cole-black clyng-fast to the golden lock'd insatiate, from the sleepy ey'd Slug to the lewd Fricatrix". She had a network of agents across the country who found her pretty young girls. Among her brothels, she owned one in 332:
is expected that I should mention her and say nothing but what was well of her. All I shall say of her, therefore, is this β€“ she was born well, lived well, and died well; for she was born with the name of Cresswell, lived at Clerkenwell, and died in Bridewell." This story appears in many sources, but is probably apocryphal.
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and government. Her increasing immunity from prosecution furthered her stature as a hate figure, particularly with the many thousands of London apprentices who could not afford her bawds, and bound by the terms of their contracts, were forbidden to marry. The houses of Cresswell and Page were a target for the 1668
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Several accounts claim that in her will she left Β£10 for a sermon to be read that said nothing ill of her. After a long search, a young clergyman prepared to perform the funeral rites was found. Following a lengthy sermon on social morality, he is said to have intoned: "By the will of the deceased it
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proved to be his ruin. Cresswell attempted to distance herself from any political affiliation, but was ultimately attacked by Protestants for providing the royal court with whores and by Catholics for financing Player. In 1681, she was brought to trial and convicted for "over thirty years of bawdry";
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satires, poems and ballads on the subject through the following year. The historian James Turner identifies this event as an example of a new carnivalisation of sexuality in Restoration England, where genuine political attack, satire, street commentary and bawdy theatre came together. Two years after
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The Poor Whores' Petition to the most splendid, illustrious, serene and eminent Lady of Pleasure the Countess of Castlemayne &c: The humble petition of the undone company of poore distressed whores, bawds, pimps, and panders .... Signed by us, Madam Cresswell and Damaris Page, in the behalf
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patronised Cresswell's establishments, as he did those of Madam Damaris Page; he declared Cresswell's to be "a Sound organisation". She became as well known as the politicians of her time, largely shielded from legal proceedings by her extensive London network of clients across the court, the guilds
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Cresswell was in a rare position for many reasons. Although she was of common birth, a woman and unmarried, she rose to a position of high status, running a large business enterprise. By mid-life she was an independently wealthy woman, connected across England to rich and powerful men in government
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and she died there. Differing sources place the year of her death at some point around 1698. In her will she requested "a Decent Buryall in the Parish Church of Nockholt in the County of Kent accordynge to the Manner of the Church of England". Cresswell was not buried at Knockholt and was possibly
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will find it much to her advantage, to enquire particularly into the state and quality of all her Suitors affairs, to hinder any disappointment or surprize: for if she has well informed her self of their busy hours, and when the necessities of their vocation, or the impulse of pleasure, do oblige
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Given her great experience in whoring, Lady Castlemaine would, they argued, be able to sympathise deeply with prostitutes across the city. "Should your Eminency but once fall into these Rough hands", they wrote, "you may expect no more Favour than they have shewn unto us poor Inferiour Whores".
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The amassed neighbours told of further infamies, such as when whores "in the habit of a Gentlewoman began to propose a Health to the Privy Member of a Gentleman ... and afterwards drank a Toast to her own Private Parts". They complained that, such was the proliferation of bawds in the area
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Cresswell occupied a rare position in seventeenth-century England, as a person of common birth who rose to a position of high status as an independently wealthy, unmarried woman running a substantial business enterprise. She figures in a wide assortment of contemporary literature and songs, in
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and had since fallen on hard times. Her bawdy houses were favoured by King Charles and his court as well as powerful figures in government and city guilds. This position gave her a measure of immunity from prosecution and added to her profile as a caricature of iniquity and corruption.
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stands today. She also ran an office in Millbank to organise whores for local noblemen and owned both a mansion in Clerkenwell and a "House of Assignation" where women old and young could discreetly meet their lovers. She took on a cohort of
85:, Cresswell financed his political campaigns. In her final years she was attacked by both Protestants and Catholics: by Protestants for providing the royal court with whores, and by Catholics for financing Player's political rebellion. 240:
of our sisters and fellow sufferers (in this day of our calamity) in Dog and Bitch Yard, Lukenor’s Lane, Saffron Hill, Moorfields, Chiswell Street, Rosemary Lane, Nightingale Lane, Ratcliffe Highway, Well Close, East Smithfield etc.
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noted that Castlemaine was "horribly vexed" by the petition. The letter itself was so finely tuned to the political dynamics of the day that though the printer was arrested, the court censor writes that "I can fasten nothing on
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Cresswell's success was fed by a talent and zest for self-promotion; she openly advertised her bawdy businesses, which helped to build her own profile. She was regularly referenced in party pamphlets,
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around the house that the daughters of local families were assumed to be prostitutes by the men visiting the brothel. For her iniquities, Cresswell was "sett to Hard Labour" in prison.
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by Whetstone Park where she sold "strong waters and fresh-faced wenches to all who had guineas to buy them with." Her headquarters were in a brothel on Back Alley off Moor Lane, near
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ballads, poems, broadsides, novels and party pamphlets, often portrayed as a caricature of vice, a satirical figure of street commentary, sexual theatre and political bawdry.
121:, by October 1658, when a mass of angry locals gathered at Westminster Court to give evidence against her and the prostitutes she ran from her "house". They stated that she: 40:, was one of the most successful prostitutes and brothel keepers of the English seventeenth century. Starting with houses in Bartholomew Close, in the City of London and 295:
during the proceedings many of her own prostitutes testified against her. Her brothel at Moorfields was taken from her, but her businesses continued as usual.
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their attendance; it will be easy to appoint times of meeting, as may give general satisfaction, and enable her to observe her particular engagements.
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Unfit for Modest Ears: A Study of Pornographic, Obscene, and Bawdy Works Written or Published in England in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
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in Kent, England. Her middle-class Protestant family were influential, with strong connections to the powerful Percival family, favoured by King
64:, apprentices smashed up brothels across London, including those belonging to Cresswell. She is listed as one of the addressers of the satirical 105:. By July 1658 Cresswell is recorded as a bawd "without rival in her wickedness", running a brothel in Bartholomew Close, a small street off 1155: 1145: 262:
the riots, a mob gathered once more and again swore they would raze Cresswell's cathouse to the ground, though protection from the local
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gentlewomen from formerly high circles of society who had opposed the parliamentarian uprising, their standing destroyed by the
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Brown, Tom (1760). "From Madam Cresswell of pious memory to her sister in iniquity Moll Quarles of known integrity".
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and the court. Her network of services were in high demand, counter to the religious and social morals of the day.
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as the figure providing Sir Thomas Player with unending quantities of young flesh and in the anonymous pamphlet
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World Literature and Its Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historic Events That Influenced Them
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states that there is no evidence that Player was Cresswell's lover, although he did frequent her brothels.
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Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630–1685
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Cresswell never married. She was widely considered to be the lover of City Chamberlain Sir
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Marcellus Laroon's line engraving of Elizabeth Cresswell at the National Portrait Gallery
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The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660–1714: Political Pornography and Prostitution
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in the city, and so were known as the "Countesses of the Exchange" or "side-pillows".
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Private Vices, Public Virtues: bawdry in London from Elizabethan times to the Regency
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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical, in prose and verse, Volume 2
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Creswell's health deteriorated towards the end of her life, probably because of
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Bridewell prison in the late 17th century, rebuilt after the Great Fire in 1666
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Elizabeth Cresswell was born in about 1625, probably in the small village of
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Enthusiast in Wit: a Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647–1680
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Following the riot, Page and Cresswell are listed as the addressers of
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At Zero Point: Discourse, Culture, and Satire in Restoration England
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Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England
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London: The Wicked City: A Thousand Years of Prostitution and Vice
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A Letter from the Lady Cresswell to Madam C. the midwife
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and the avowedly Protestant claimant to the throne the
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Index


St Leonard's, Shoreditch
Charles II
Cavalier
English Civil War
Bawdy House Riots of 1668
Whores' Petition
Lady Castlemaine
Whig
anti-Carolean
Thomas Player
Knockholt
Charles I
Little Britain
City of London
London prison
St Leonard's, Shoreditch
Damaris Page
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Cripplegate
Moorgate station
Cavalier
civil war
Gresham Royal Exchange

The Whores' Petition
King Charles II
Bawdy House Riots
Shrove Tuesday
Moorfields

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