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 . ne person, and two by another; she acknowledgedshe had been very undutiful to her mother, and B 2 MEMOIRS OF [GEORGE 11, likewise had wronged the best of husbands. It was o reported she once kept a coffee-house, which shedenied, and said she never was mistress of anypublic-house in her life; she expressed a hope thather father, (who keeps an inn on the Bristol road)her husband, and children, would not hear of herignomini
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 . ne person, and two by another; she acknowledgedshe had been very undutiful to her mother, and B 2 MEMOIRS OF [GEORGE 11, likewise had wronged the best of husbands. It was o reported she once kept a coffee-house, which shedenied, and said she never was mistress of anypublic-house in her life; she expressed a hope thather father, (who keeps an inn on the Bristol road)her husband, and children, would not hear of herignominious death. She was indicted with Thomas Carr, an attorney,for the robbery of Mr. Quarrington, under veryaggravating circumstances. The part she took inthis affair, was stopping the prosecutors mouth withher handkerchief, Mrs. Prevost holding one of hislegs, while Carr forcibly robbed him of his money,for which, as an accomplice, she was found guilty,and suffered death at Tyburn, with Carr, January18, 1737-8. Mrs. Prevost escaped punishment byflight. Elizabeth Adams is introduced in the sixthplate of Hogarths Harlots Progress, holding a con-versation with Orator GEORGE ii.] REMARKABLE PERSONS. IN the year 17^9? a man digging for limestone,near a place called St. Roberts Cave, in the parishof Knaresborough, in the county of York, found thebones of a human body. Wondering how thisshould come to pass, and why a body should beburied in such a lonely place, he began to suspectthat somebody had been murdered, and secretlyburied there, the better to conceal it from the his return to Knaresborough, he discoved thismatter to several people, which made it the topic ofcommon conversation. Various conjectures ensued:however, one person said, that he remembered, that,about fifteen years before, one Daniel Clarke ab-sented himself all of a sudden, and never had beenheard of again. On his mentioning this affair, someof the people recollected that they had heard a womanin tow
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