Being a list of debtors, sanctuary-seekers, prisoners mentioned in this blog, and their contemporaries.<\/p>\n
Dawson, ‘Bully’.<\/strong> Born unknown, died unknown. Notorious gambler, presumed model for Laroon’s portrait of the Squire of Alsatia. Refs: Laroon’s ‘Squire of Alsatia’<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Evelyn, John.<\/strong> Born 31 October 1620, died 27 February 1706. Famed diarist. Refs: John Evelyn and Saint Martins in the Fields<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fawcett, Reverend Joseph.<\/strong> Dissenting Minister. Mentioned in E.P. Thompson’s Whigs and Hunters<\/a> as soliciting a reward from Walpole for converting many Minters, and thereby making the dissolution of the sanctuary peaceable.<\/p>\n Harman, Thomas.<\/strong> Flourished circa 1547 to 1567. Compiler of one of the earliest Canting dictionaries, and lived in Whitefriars in the 1560s. Refs: The Language of Alsatia: Cant, Analogy and Toponyms<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Laroon, Marcellus.<\/strong> Born 1649, died unknown. Artist, famed today for his series ‘Cries of London’, amongst which he portrayed the Squire of Alsatia, modeled perhaps upon Bully Dawson. Refs: Laroon’s ‘Squire of Alsatia’<\/a>.<\/p>\n Locke, John<\/strong>. Born 29 August 1632, died 28 October 1704. Renowned philosopher and early economist. Refs: The Language of Alsatia: Cant, Analogy and Toponyms<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Swift, Jonathan<\/strong>. Born 30 November 1667 , died 19 October 1745. Noted satirist and enemy of playhouse and alsatian language.\u00a0 Refs: Laroon’s ‘Squire of Alsatia<\/a>‘, The Language of Alsatia: Cant, Analogy and Toponyms<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tate, Nahum.<\/strong> Born 1652, died 30th July 1715. Dublin-born writer, appointed Poet Laureate in 1692. Fled from his creditors to Southwark Mint, where he died. Refs: An Account of the Southwark Mint<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Towers, Charles.<\/strong> Born unknown, died 1724 (executed). Wapping Minter, executed for going in disguise. Refs: The Life of Charles Towers, a Minter in Wapping<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ward, Ned.<\/strong> Born unknown, died 20th June 1731. Hack writer and publican, author of The London Spy<\/em>. Refs: The London Spy Visits Whitefriars<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Winter, Francis.<\/strong> Born unknown, died 17th May 1693 (executed). ‘Leader’, apparently, of the Alsatians in the 1691 riot against the Templars. Refs: Francis Winter’s Last Farewell<\/a>, The Ordinary of Newgate’s Account of Francis Winter<\/a>, Luttrell on Winter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Being a list of debtors, sanctuary-seekers, prisoners mentioned in this blog, and their contemporaries. Dawson, ‘Bully’. Born unknown, died unknown. Notorious gambler, presumed model for Laroon’s portrait of the Squire of Alsatia. Refs: Laroon’s ‘Squire of Alsatia’, Wikipedia. Evelyn, John. Born 31 October 1620, died 27 February 1706. Famed diarist. Refs: John Evelyn and Saint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-226","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2R9Se-3E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsatia.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsatia.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsatia.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsatia.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsatia.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/alsatia.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/alsatia.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/226\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsatia.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}