Papers concerning the Mohocks and Hawkubites, 1711-1712.

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Papers concerning the Mohocks and Hawkubites, 1711-1712.

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Volume of manuscript court proceedings, royal proclamations, accounts, and minutes, as well as printed broadsides, concerning the assaults and nocturnal disturbances committed by the Mohocks and Hawkubites in London during the reign of Queen Anne. Includes autograph notes and manuscript transcripts in an unidentified hand (with the initials J.E.H.) and a mezzotint of Edward Richard Montagu, 3rd earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke (1692-1722), a member of the Mohock gang.

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Sandwich, Edward Richard Montagu, 3rd Earl of, 1692-1722

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Gay, Ernest Lewis

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Ernest Lewis Gay (1874-1916) was a librarian and book collector of Boston, Mass. who collected materials especially concerning the English poet and playwright, John Gay (1685-1732). John Gay used the Mohock theme in his one-act play, The Mohocks. A tragi-comical farce, (1712). The Mohocks and Hawkubites were street gangs in London during the reign of Queen Anne. It was their delight to molest and ill-treat the women, children, and feeble old men who might be in the streets after sunset. The Moho...

Gay, John, 1685-1732

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Epithet: poet, playwright British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0002c5 ...

Whig Party (Great Britain)

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Great Britain. Sovereign (1707-1714 : Anne)

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