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For being a notorious strumpet, a common field walker and one that hath undone several men by giving them the foul disease, for keeping the husband of Susan
Slaughter from her ever since December last and hath utterly undone that family, and also for threatening to stab said Susan Slaughter whenever
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When the money ran out the sword sharpener left her, and she returned to her husband who reported her for theft. In July 1658 she was sentenced to be hanged for theft by the
Middlesex Sessions, but was later given a conditional pardon by the new
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in East London, but was reported in
January 2023 to have "recently been obscured by a new artwork". As of 26 July 2023 the artwork had been changed and the unofficial blue plaque moved, so it is visible below the new artwork.
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around 1615, she later travelled to London and became a prostitute. Fotheringham was reputed to be a “cat-eyed gypsy, pleasing to the eye”. But by the time
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313:(40 shillings) in there", notes one modern commentator. On some occasions wine was also poured into her commodity. She performed chucking several times a day. The tavern was nicknamed
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Fotheringham eventually set up as the madam of The Jack-a-Newberry, a tavern on the corner of
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she can meet her, the woman being very civil woman, and also for several other notorious wickedness which is not fit to be named among the heathen.
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