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BEP(F.736.023
5 Jul 1736:12 (47)
On the twenty-seventh of March last, a most abandoned wretch
named Jane Andrews, servant maid to Mr. William Bird, a
brewer at Kensington Gore, as committed to Newgate by Col.
DeVeil. Her master being obliged to go a journey, as soon
as he was gone she shut up his doors, and went to Kensington
Town to a gin shop she usually frequented and there found a
drummer of the guards of her acquaintance, a chimney
sweeper, and a woman traveller; she invited these guests
home to her master's house, where they drank plentifully
from 10 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon, when Jane
Andrews proposed to the company (the drummer, chimney
sweeper and strange woman) that they and she should all go
to bed together; and thereupon she shut up the doors and
windows, and though 'twas but about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, they stript, and all four went into one bed
together, (as the maid call'd it to ring changes) and lay
there till a mob, hearing of this affair, surrounded the
door, and disturbed the happy pairs; but her master's closet
door, in that very room being broke open, and 32 shillings
taken out of a bag that was in it, the said maid was charged
with the felony; the drummer positively swore that he saw
her have such a bag, and put it in her pocket with money in
it, as the master described; and another witness swore, that
she offered to shew her a bag of money of her master's, in
which there was a great quantity of gold and silver; and it
seems there was 7 pounds odd money in the bag she took the
32 shillings out of. The whole examination which lasted
many hours, was attended with numberless circumstances of
lewdness and villainy, and shew'd the said Andrews to be a
most profligate, abandoned creature.
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