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• The hermit of Snowden : or memoirs of Albert and Lavinia. Taken from a faithful copy of the original manuscript, which was found ... by the late Rev. Dr. L- and Mr. -, in the year 17**
  by: Ryves, Elizabeth
  Published: (1789)
• The hermit of Snowden : or memoirs of Albert and Lavinia. Taken from a faithful copy of the original manuscript, which was found in the hermitage, by the late Rev. Dr. L- and Mr. - , in the year 17**
  by: Ryves, Elizabeth
  Published: (1790)
• The tryal of Thomas Thomson and Lavinia Whitney : on an indictment for a conspiracy, in procuring one William Gibson, a sawyer, to personate Mr. Samuel Brooks, an eminent grocer, and marry the said Whitney, in his (the said Brooks) name, with a view and intent to subject him to the payment of her debts, and force him to allow her a separate maintenance. Try'd at Guildhall, on Monday the 2d day of November, 1730, before the Right Honourable Humphry Parsons, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London; the Hon. Mr. Baron Thompson, Recorder of the said City; and other his Majesty's Justices, at an Adjournment of the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer
  by: Thomson, Thomas
  Published: (1730)
• The life of Lavinia Beswick, alias Fenton, alias Polly Peachum: containing, her birth and education. Her Intrigues at a Boarding School. Her first Acquaintance with a certain Portugueze Nobleman. The Time when, and Person to whom she bestow'd her first Favours. A particular Account of her Conversation with a Mercer, now living near the Royal Exchange. Or the Portugueze Nobleman being confin'd in the Fleet, and the honourable Method she took to gain him his Liberty. A Copy of Verses which she composed on a Fop, which conduced to her Acquaintance with Mr. Huddy, for whose Benefit, at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market, the first appear'd on the Stage. A particular Account of a Benefit she shar'd with one Mr. Gilbert, a few Week-After Mr. Huddy's, at the same Theatre. Her first Admittance into the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields: Her Weekly Salary, both now and then; and the Time when, and the Cause why, it was raised. Of her Wit gaining her more Lovers than her Beauty. The Horse-Courser dismounted, yet saves his Distance. A Poet structing under the Protection of the Nine Muses. Another Poet, who would attack Ulysses and Penelope in a barbarous Manner, is severely handled by Polly in a Satyrical Stanza. Her Judgment in Poetry, and History Painting. And the reasonable Reason why so many great Men have been her Humble Servants. The whole interspers'd with convincing proofs of her ingenuity, wit, and smart repartees. And concluding with some remarkable instances of her humanity to the distressed
  Published: (1728)
• A letter to the Rev. Richard Rawlins, curate of the parish of Foleshill, in answer to a calumnious attack publicly made by him, upon one of the principal rate-payers of the parish : and an address to the rate-payers of Foleshill, on the subject of the resolutions of the minister and officers of the parish, passed on the 20th instant, and publicly advertised and placarded through the neighbourhood
  by: Whieldon, George
  Published: (1832)