sally known amongst them, and partaker in most of their villainies; she acquired the cant name by which she stood indicted for her dexterity in cutting off womens pockets, and having several companions of the same cast, some used to sing to draw inconsiderate women about them, while others of the gang took care to dispose of their pockets. In this course, the poor wretch, with many other of her companions went on, until she was taken up and convicted; she seemed to have no more sense of religion, or of any moral good than a brute; and experience here has convinc'd me, what great numbers there are in the same miserable state, who are so confirmed in the most stupid wickedness, as to be a disgrace to human nature, and without some speedy means of reformation previous to corporal punishment, must grow upon our hands too fast to be easily eradicated. She confessed the fact for which she was convicted in general, but made some idle objections to the manner of its being sworn to. She for company sake went to chapel, appeared very attentive and quiet there, received the sacrament, professed to be really penitent, and as far as she knew of the matter believed in Jesus Christ, and being ask'd whether she died in peace with all men, she answered in the affirmative, saying innocently enough in her way, she bore no body any spite.

7. Lettice Lynn< no role > of the parish of St. Mary Whitechapel , was indicted (together with James Devereaux< no role > not taken) for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Matthew Wood< no role > , and stealing thence in rings and money to the value of about seventeen pounds, the property of Matthew Wood< no role > .

Lettice Lynn< no role > 22 years of age, was born of mean parents some where amongst the purlieus of Whitechapel , bred at a charity school, and if she is to be believed, put out apprentice a young girl of fourteen years of age, who had the honour to contribute to the support of a bawdy house , by bringing company thither, and where Lettice was debauched the first night of her apprenticeship, by her mistress's special appointment. So particular a beginning could not fail of producing suitable consequences; those who taught her whoring, naturally enough taught her thieving, and she for the future acted in one capacity or the other, or both together, as occasion offered. It's extremely difficult, either through hopes of a reprieve, or natural stupidity, to get any thing out of such poor wretches, that may give any just light into their lives and actions. It is like fishing in troubled waters, where fish are plenty enough but won't bite. Lettice seems to have been taught the principles of villainy with her first debauch, by indicting the person who lay with her for a rape, but had not the fortune to get him convicted. She afterwards fell in with a tradesman of some reputation, and obliged him to marry her, with whom she says, that she lived chast for five years, when her husband leaving her, she first undertook to be the directress of a bawdy house, and by the company she entertained there, became acquainted with, and practised with them street and highway robberies, one whereof she alledges was in company with the woman who calls herself the prosecutor's wife, and who had been previously indicted for receiving stolen goods, but acquitted for want of prosecution. But her chief companion was the famous James Stansbury< no role > , late master of the Blood-bowl house in Fleet-street , with whom she committed various robberies, and whose wife having been convicted of a robbery committed in the said house, and being ordered for transportation, Lettice and Stansbury went upon the highway together in order to raise contributions, for the fitting the lady out for her voyage to Virginia; in which undertaking they met with a West-India captain by Mile End , from whom they borrowed fourteen guineas, which was all he happened to be able at that time to spare them, and which proved a very comfortable assistance to the lady in her voyage. Lettice tells many terrible stories about the Blood-bowl house, whereto she often resorted, and of the robberies committed there, but they being only the same as are common to all such houses, and have been on previous occasions published before, are needless to repeat here. When