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Perkins fell quickly among such a set, and often rambled abroad with them on the usual errands of whoring, shuffle-board, or skittle-playing, etc.
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His companions were several young men of the same stamp with himself, who placed all their delight in the sensual and brutal pleasures of drinking, gaming, whoring and idling about, without betaking themselves to any business.
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Some common whores, also, finding him to be a poor country fellow, easily seduced him and kept him amongst them for a stallion, until, between their lust and their diseases, they had put him in a fair road to the grave.
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I called myself a thousand blockheads for not finding out before, but the hurry of things, or to speak the truth, the fear I was in, prevented my judging even from the most evident signs.
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No sooner had she taken care of the booty but he went among his old companions, pickpockets and whores in Drury Lane and Clare Market.
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As it happened they were all present pretty full of money, and so under no necessity of going upon any enterprise directly, wherefore they loitered up and down the fields until towards evening, when they thought they might venture unto town, and pass the time in their usual pleasures of drinking, gaming, and whoring.
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This was a proper university for one who had been bred in such a school; so that there is no wonder he became so great a proficient in all sorts of wickedness, gaming, drinking, and whoring, which appear not to such poor creatures as sins, but as the pleasures of life, about which they ought to spend their whole care; and, indeed, how should it be otherwise, where they know nothing that better deserves it.
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For my part_, continued he, _I believe Queen Anne's war swept away the last remains of these brave spirits; for since the Peace of Utrac (as I think they call it) we have had a wondrous growth of blockheads, even in our business.
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to the broker, and as much to the whore.
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It was in vain for her to talk of her goods and her clothes; the captain had carried her amongst a set of his acquaintance, who on the first quarrel called her a thousand foolish English whores, and bid her go back to her Justice's clerk again.
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Accordingly they were at Sessions House by the time the Court was set, and the two young sluts were exceedingly merry at the wretched appearances the poor creatures made at the bar.
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But as soon as he was out of it he addicted himself to gaming, drinking and whoring, and all the other vices which are so natural to abandoned young fellows in low life.
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Why, really, it was spent in drink, gaming and in whores, three articles which ran so high amongst these knight-errants in low life that Barnham and two more found a way to lavish an hundred and twenty pounds on them in three weeks.
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For it is a truth deducible from uninterrupted experience that a whore is not to be maintained at the same easy expense with a wife.
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Upton also insisted that as to himself, one of the pirate's crew ran up to him as soon as they came on board and with a cutlass in his hand, said with an oath, _You old son of a bitch, I know you and you shall go along with us or I'll cut out your liver_, and thereupon fell to beating him fore and aft the deck with his cutlass.
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From that time forwards he gave a loose to all his brutal inclinations, associated himself with nobody but common whores and thieves, spent his time in gaming, when not engaged in a worse employment, and never, after his acquaintance with Bradley, thought of doing anything either just or honest.
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He received tolerably good education at school, and was brought up by his father to his own business; but he was of a lewd disposition, continually running after whores, keeping lewd company, gaming and drinking until he was able neither to stand nor go.
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He confessed his having been as great a sinner as his years would give him leave, addicted to whoring, drunkenness, gaming and having quite obliterated all the religious principles which his former education had instilled into him.
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My evil habits were so rooted in me, and I was grown unfit for any other kind of employment; and therefore, although in compliance with my friends I resolved to go to the gallows after the usual manner, kneeling with a book in my hand and my eyes lift up, yet I shall feel no more devotion in my heart than I observed in some of my comrades, who have been drunk among common whores the very night before their execution.
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Thirdly, nothing is more dangerous to idle young fellows than the company of those odious common whores we frequent, and of which this town is full.
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I know not what it is, that we are never easy until we are half drunk among our whores and companions, nor sleep sound, unless we drink longer than we can stand.
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Every man amongst us keeps his particular whore, who is however common to us all when we have a mind to change.
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I believe in my conscience, that if an account were made of a thousand pounds in stolen goods, considering the low rates we sell them at, the bribes we must give for concealment, the extortions of alehouse reckonings, and other necessary charges there would not remain fifty pounds clear to be divided among the robbers, and out of this we must find clothes for whores, besides treating them from morning until night, who in requital award us with nothing but treachery and the pox, for when our money is gone, they are every moment threatening to inform against us, if we will not get out to look for more.
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If anything in this world be like Hell, as I have heard it described by our clergy, the truest picture of it must be in the back room of one of our alehouses at midnight, where a crew of robbers and their whores are met together after a booty, and are beginning to grow drunk, from that time until they are past their senses, in such a continued horrible noise of cursing, blasphemy, lewdness, scurrility, and brutish behaviour, such roaring and confusion, such a clatter of mugs and pots at each other's heads, that Bedlam in comparison is a sober and orderly place.
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At last they all tumble from their stools and benches, and sleep away the rest of the night, and generally the landlord or his wife, or some other whore, who has a stronger head than the rest, picks their pockets before they awake.
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When their guard was over, they were, as Mr. Gilburn expresses it in his last speech, as bare as a bird's arse, so no time was to be lost, and accordingly that very night they made their second expedition.
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newcomb, William, a housebreaker Newfoundland Newgate Newman, Mr. Nathaniel Newmarket New Mint New Prison New York Nichols, John Richard, a thief Robert _Night Rambler_, a pirate sloop Nisbet, a joiner Northampton Norwich Nottingham Nunney, Luke, a murderer Oakey, Richard, a footpad Oblivion, Act of (1660) O'Brian, a thief O'Bryan, James, a highwayman Ogden, Samuel, highwayman Old Bailey Old Spa, Clerkenwell Oliver, Robert, a thief Oporto Osborn, Elizabeth Ouranaquoy, an Indian chief Overbery, Sir Thomas Owen, Griffith, a highwayman Oxford Road Packer, Thomas, a highwayman Palermo Pall Mall Parford, Mr. Paris Parvin, Richard, a deer-stealer Paternoster Row Patrick, Samuel Payne, Mrs. Diana John Sarah, an infamous woman _Peine fort et Dure_ Pennsylvania Penrice, Sir Henry Perkins, Robert, a thief Perrier, Jacques, a French robber _Perry_ galley Perry, Edward John, and his family, murderers Thomas, a footpad Peterson, a pirate Phelps Philadelphia Philip, a justice's clerk Philpot, Mr., a surveyor Piccadilly Picken, Joseph, a highwayman Pincher, William Pink, Edward and John, deer-stealers Pitts, Colonel Plantations of America Poison, Thomas, a footpad Porto Santo, Madeira Portsmouth Road Pots, Philip Poultry Compter Powell, Sir John Prague, description of Pressing, as a punishment Price, John, a housebreaker Pugh, John, highwayman Purney, Ordinary of Newgate Putney Common Pye, Richard Quakers, robbed Rag Fair Ransom, John Ratcliff Highway Rawlins, Christopher, a thief Mary (Black Mary) Thomas Raymond, Lord Chief Justice Read, Robert William William, of Campden Reading, James Receiving, practised by Wild Reddey, Eleanor Red Lion Fields Square Reeves, Thomas, a highwayman _Revenge_, a pirate galley Rewards, for apprehending criminals Reynolds, Edward, a thief Rice Rivers, Thomas, a thief Roberts, Dorcas Robinson, Mary, a shoplift Roche, Philip, a pirate Rogers, William, a thief Captain Woodes Rondeau, Anne Rose Sponging-house Rotterdam Rouden, John, _alias_ Hulks, a thief Russell, William, a footpad Sadler's Wells St. Albans St. Andrew's, Holborn St. George's Fields St. Giles's Pound Round-house St. James's Park St. Margaret's, Westminster St. Pancras St. Paul's, Covent Garden St. Sepulchre's Bell-man St. Swithin's Alley, Cornhill St. Thomas's Hospital Salisbury Salter, Peter Sanctuaries in London Sanders, Francis, a thief Sandford Santa Cruz Scarborough, Earl of Schmidt, Frederick, alterer of bank-notes Scrimgeour Scurrier, Richard, a shoplift Sefton, William, a thief Sells, Samuel Sharp, Mark, a murderer Shaw, James, a highwayman Sheldon, Mrs. Shelterers, the Shepherd, Jack, highwayman, and prisonbreaker Richard, a housebreaker Thomas, a thief Sherbourne Sherwood, James, a footpad Shoreditch Shrewsberry, _alias_ Smith, Joseph, a robber Shrewsbury Shrimpton, Ferdinand, a highwayman Sikes, James Simpson, William, a horse-stealer Sleaford Smith, Bryan, a blackmailer John, a murderer Mary, a whore Simon Thomas, a highwayman Smithfield Smoky Chimney Doctor, _see_ Drury, A. Smyrna Snow, Foster Southampton Street Spain, expedition to Spencer, Barbara, a coiner Sperry, William, a footpad Springate, Mrs. Spring Gardens Stabbing, Statute of Standford, Mary, a pickpocket Stanley, Captain John, a murderer Stephens, Catherine Stepney Stevens, Mary Stinton, Thomas Stockden, Worcestershire Stocks, Market Stone, John Sunderland Swaffo, Baron Swift, William, a thief Tartoue, Peter Taverns, _see_ Inns Temple, The Thompson, Sarah Thompson, Sir William, recorder Thomson, John, a highwayman Tilt Yard, Westminster Timms, Thomas, a footpad Tompkins, Mr. Toon, James, a thief Tothill Fields, Bridewell Tottenham Court Road Tower Hill Towers, Mr. Charles, a minter Transportation Trantham, Richard, a housebreaker Trig Stairs Trippuck, John, a highwayman Turner, Mrs. Elizabeth John, _alias_ Civil John, a highwayman Turnham Green Tyburn Tyrrell, John, a horse-stealer Upton, John, a pirate Vanloden, Baron and Countess Vaux, Thomas, a street-robber Vigo Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane Wakeling, Mr. Walden, Matthew Walker, Ann Waller, John Waltham Blacks, the Wandsworth Wapping Ward Joseph, a footpad Waterford Watts, Sarah, a fence Weaver, Charles, a murderer Weedon, George, a footpad Wendover West, Jeddediah John Westbrook, a surgeon West Chester Chester, Pennsylvania Haden, Northants Westwood, James Thomas, a footpad Whalebone, _alias_ Welbone, John, a thief Whinyard, Mr. White, Abraham, a thief James, a thief Whitechapel Whitefriars Whittingham, Richard, a footpad Wight, Isle of Wigley, John, a highwayman Wild, Jonathan, thief-taker Wildgoose, a servant Wileman, Benjamin, a highwayman Wilkinson, Robert, a murderer Willesden Green Will the Sailor Williams, a pirate Willis, a constable Willoughby, Mr. Wilson, Thomas, a footpad Windsor Winship, John, a highwayman Wise, Captain Wood, Thomas Woodbury Hill, Dorset Woodman, Richard, a highwayman Wood Street Compter Worcester Worebington, Roger Wright, James, a highwayman Yarmouth Yates, _alias_ Gates, _alias_ Vulcan York, Mr. Yorkshire Bob, a housebreaker Young, John, a highwayman Hon.