Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . MEMOIRS OF [GEORGE IT. eanniiifi,atrtr ON the 6th of January, 17-53, the followingadvertisement appeared in the Daily Advertiser:— Whereas Elizabeth Canning went from her friends,between Houndsditch and Bishopsgate, on Mondaylast, the 1st instant, between nine and ten oclock;whoever can give any account where she is, shallhave two guineas reward, to be paid by Mrs. Can-ning, a sawyer, in Aldermanbury Postern ; whichwill
Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . MEMOIRS OF [GEORGE IT. eanniiifi,atrtr ON the 6th of January, 17-53, the followingadvertisement appeared in the Daily Advertiser:— Whereas Elizabeth Canning went from her friends,between Houndsditch and Bishopsgate, on Mondaylast, the 1st instant, between nine and ten oclock;whoever can give any account where she is, shallhave two guineas reward, to be paid by Mrs. Can-ning, a sawyer, in Aldermanbury Postern ; whichwill be a great satisfaction to her mother. She isfresh-colored, pitted with the small-pox, has a highforehead, light eye-brows, about five feet high, eigh-teen years of age, well-set, had on a masqueradepurple stuff-gown, a black petticoat, a white chip-hat, bound round with green, a white apron andhandkerchief, blue stockings, and NoTE.—It is supposed she was forcibly takenaway by some evil-disposed person, as she was. ..rf&if& .<•: .-. ?M .•-• ft • ••**** i ?jK £& \ : , I 1 &*.- ^ I j r| ;fi\ :^ W* ,*?&-. sr33** ,i5;SPS ;.;!&, » ^1 fc. V •• /•| ; :; ; //;• ,^ 11 ^ /I C ••- 1 • • THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY :on, LKNOX AND TILDEN JTOUNDATIONf 1- GEORGE ii.] REMARKABLE PERSONS. 109 heard to shriek out in a hackney-coach in Bish-opsgate-street. If the coachman remembers anything of the affair, by giving an account as above,he shall be handsomely rewarded for his trouble/3 Elizabeth Canning, the mother, having a verygood character, and being well esteemed in theneighbourhood, where she had lived many years,and the girl having always bore a good reputation,and being so young, the neighbours interested them-selves greatly in the poor womans misfortune, andpromised to contribute to a larger reward for thediscovery of the girl, which was accordingly adver-tised, and every other method that could be thoughtof put in practice, but wit
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