Juvenile delinquency - England - London - Early works to 1800

The Whole remarkable life and transactions. Of that wicked and infamous strumpet and stroller Anne Martin otherwise Bristol Nan , who was try'd and cast on Saturday the 4th of April, 1761, before the court at Hicks-Hall, in St. John's-street, for decoying young children from their parents, both in town and country, and putting their eyes out with red hot knitting needles, and afterwards going up and down the streets begging with them, when the court sentenced her to be detained in Newgate two years, and to be publickly whipped at the cart's tail the first Saturday in every month, for a twelve-month, in every market-town in the county of Middlesex.