Have You Heard of Nasty napkin Nan? Jan 29, 1726

 This is one of the "musings"

Have you heard of Napkin Nan, aka Nasty Nan, alias Anne Miles?

 

January 29, 1726 – “(London): On Friday last, on Anne Miles, alias Napkin Nan, alias Nasty Nan the Scot, was, together with a *char-woman, committed to Newgate by Leonard Street, one of his Majesty’s Justices of Peace, for robbing her service the Rose Tavern of a great quantity of napkins, plates, knives, candles, linen and other family necessaries which felonious practice it seems she had carried on in all her places for several years past as appeared by the concession of the char-woman, whose lodging in an alley near Fleet Street was the Waterhouse, or repository for the things stole in that manner and where a great quantity was found upon a search warrant.” ~ The Ipswich Journal, Suffolk, England

This is an excerpt from the book, "Women's History: Trivia, Firsts, & Musings by Paula C. Henderson https://amzn.to/3C2WWN2