Contents

Foreword

List of Illustrations

I “Lost: A Girl

II “A Guinea to a Farthing, She Has Been at Mother Wells’s

III “An Odd Sort of an Empty Room

IV “To the Carrying On the Prosecution”

V “Culprit, How Wilt Thou Be Tried?”

VI “To Alarm the Publick with Some Further Discoveries”

VII “Great Care Hath Been Taken, on Either Side, to Search This Matter to the Bottom”

VIII Conversation Piece at Batson’s:A Ridiculous, Idle, Absurd Story!

Interlude for Connoisseurs in Mystery

IX “We Shall Call Our Witnesses, and If We Prove Her Guilty, You Will Find Her So

X “And So I Rest It in Your Hands

XI Exeunt Omnes

Conclusion for Connoisseurs in Mystery

Envoi

Books Consulted

Index

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