10 The Fortunes and Misfortunes
letter to my clerk to meet me at Brick- hall, where we were married. Next day, from the window of the inn where we lay, I ſaw my Lanca- ſhire husband, with two others, paſs by, and ſoon after they were purſued as highwaymen. My huband and I returned to town, where we lived very happy for the ſpace of five years, by whom I had two children, when I rewarded my midwife for her fidelity. But my hus- band's clark robbing him, it caſt him in a conſumption, which ended his life, and my happineſs together. Soon after this, being reduced to great extremity, I was tempted to ſteal a ſmall bundle out of an apothe- cary's ſhop in Leadenhall-ſtreet, in which I found a ſuit of child-bed li- nen, ſome fine lace, a ſilver mug, ſix ſpoons, three ſhillings, and ſome oth- er matters. Afterwards I inveigled a little child from whom I took a gold necklace; but tho' I had it in a private place, I did not kill it, but put it in its way home again. Another time I took out of a ſhop at Stepney two rings, one a
