ET was arrested in Southwark, and incarcerated in the Fleet Prison
for debt; the warrant was dated the previous month.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
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Wealth and Poverty
Elizabeth Thomas
A warrant was issued for the release of ET from the Fleet Prison
, where she had languished for debt for a year and a half.
Rebecca Mills
notes that Curll dates the warrant, wrongly, 3 July.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
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Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
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Wealth and Poverty
Elizabeth Thomas
This was the low point (so far) in Thomas's life. Gwinnett had changed his will less than three weeks before his death, and left her 600 pounds, but his family ensured that it did not...
Wealth and Poverty
Leah Sumbel
After the break-up of her second marriage LS
lived for about eighteen months at Hammersmith with her sister and brother-in-law, who were back from the West Indies.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
She says, however, that it was her brother-in-law's...
Wealth and Poverty
Jane Squire
Having failed to recover a lost investment through the law courts, JS
was arrested for debt and committed to London's Fleet Prison
. It seems that she owed £3,400 to people named Bower (or...
Wealth and Poverty
Jane Squire
JS
was released from the Fleet Prison
following the passage through parliament of an Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
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