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Jenks's Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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London court cases against fortune tellers: Elizabeth Burridge arrested in Stanhope Street with fortune-telling apparatus; a witness paid 1s. 6d. for a reading. Elizabeth Watts and Sarah Robert charged in Gray's Inn Lane, all adjudged rogues and vagabonds and committed to prison.
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FORTUNE TELLERS.
Thursday evening Elizabeth Burridge, otherwise Bee, was brought in custody by Townsend, who apprehended her the same evening at her lodgings, in Stanhope street, for fortune telling.
Townsend produced an old globe, a slate, with some hieroglyphics rudely drawn upon it, and a number of papers, scrawled full of strange words, and incoherent nonsense: together with two packs of dirty cards, the whole apparatus of the art.
A woman proved paying the prisoner 1s. 6d. to have her fortune told, and gave a very whimsical account of her interview with the sorceress, and that she warned her hereafter.
The case being clearly made out without pretending ermine being her to the present cation made dotion ut Mr. und Fod the next Session.
of was Coitection that the hould rogue be and vagabond, and
Elizabeth Watts and Sarah Robert charged tar in Gray's Inn Lane; which being they were both adjudged rogues and vagabond's and committed to the same prison.
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London
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April 25
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adjudged rogues and vagabonds and committed to the same prison
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Thursday evening Elizabeth Burridge, otherwise Bee, brought in custody by Townsend for fortune telling at her lodgings in Stanhope street. Townsend produced old globe, slate with hieroglyphics, papers with strange words, two packs of dirty cards. A woman paid prisoner 1s. 6d. for fortune told and gave whimsical account of interview. Case clearly made out. Elizabeth Watts and Sarah Robert charged in Gray's Inn Lane and both adjudged rogues and vagabonds.