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Jones's accuser, describing her as "a three-penny upright," testified as follows: "As I stood against the Wall, came behind me, and with one hand she took hold of . . . --and the other she thrust into my Breeches Pocket and took my Money." Based on this
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distinctions were still operative, and therefore testimony from a "gentleman," in particular, would weigh heavily against that of a prostitute. Jones would have been a weak defendant, as she had been in Newgate on multiple occasions.
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against the trade of prostitution and those who worked in the industry. Although officially London courts took all persons as equally worthy,
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asserts that regardless of her guilt or innocence, her conviction on such flimsy evidence indicates the
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Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution: Computational Linguistics and History
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The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
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some twenty times before, was 30 years old upon her execution.
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London's Underworld: Three Centuries of Vice and Crime
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Jones, who had been sent to the notorious prison at
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Index

prostitute
London
Kingdom of Great Britain
Prime Minister
Robert Walpole
hang
shillings
guinea
testimony
Tyburn
Newgate
Historian
Peter Linebaugh
bias
courts
class
"Deaths in History on December 22"
"Female executions 1735 – 1799"
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Linebaugh 2003
Linebaugh 2003
McEnery & Baker 2016
Linnane 2004
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN
9781859846384

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