Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

12th November 1755

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15th September 1755


4. Rowley Hanson< no role > was indicted, for that he in a certain field, and open place, near the king's highway, on Dennis Chirac< no role > , esq ; did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear, and taking from his person a watch, with two gold cases, and a shagreen case, value 18 l. one steel chain, two cornelian seals, one guinea, and 4 s. and 6 d. in money, numbered, September the 15th .

1. Mabel Hughes< no role > This name instance is in set 535. , said, that she was 77 years of age, and was born at Greenwich , of poor parents, who kept her at home till she was 15 years of age, and put her out then apprentice to spinning, and winding of silk , in the parish of Aldgate . There, she said, she served her time, and married in the parish. She lost her husband and two children, which were all she ever had; and growing old, and not able to provide for herself, in the hard winter 1739, she was put into the work-house.

There she remained ever since, and was appointed to look after the boys, to keep them to work, and see that they did not behave contrary to the rules of the house. But, being not much used to children, who are apt to be unlucky, where there is not that authority over them, which ought to be, they would often play tricks with the old woman. And she, being very ignorant, and of a peevish temper, was too much accustomed to beat the poor children; this usage made them not very fond of her, and the more inclined to teize her. Words to this purpose she made use of in telling the history of her behaviour in the work-house; while the short time lasted she had to live after conviction.




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