known successful prostitutes keepers english seventeenth century starting houses built widespread network london supplied girls women england employees included wives soldiers pressed service charles_ii supported cause english civil war fallen hard times houses favoured court powerful figures government city position gave measure immunity prosecution added profile caricature corruption smashed london including belonging listed satirical petition sent king letter requests help sister prostitutes destroyed asking rebuilt money national tax supporter prominent whig anti catholic anti financed political campaigns final years attacked catholics providing royal court catholics financing player political rebellion occupied rare position seventeenth century england person common birth rose position high status independently wealthy unmarried woman running substantial business enterprise figures wide assortment contemporary literature songs ballads poems novels party pamphlets portrayed caricature vice satirical figure street commentary sexual theatre political life career born probably small village middle class protestant family influential strong connections powerful family favoured king july recorded rival running small street month brought trial hall constable gave evidence living found divers gentlemen women house divers times marshall notes women sent notorious london prison subsequently attempted bribe police avoid publicity court case living miles northeast october mass angry locals gathered evidence prostitutes ran house stated entertain divers loose suspected committed said elizabeth having taken house paid fine rent persons resorted day continued drinking dancing swearing lord day fast days witnesses told seeing men women going rooms woman having going room shut locked door company drunk dozen bottles wine divers women suspected slip gate brought place amassed neighbours told habit began propose health member gentleman drank private parts complained area house daughters local families assumed prostitutes men visiting hard labour prison success like fellow regarded great figures london scene talent self promotion declared cole black fast golden lock network agents country found pretty young girls owned lincoln sold strong waters fresh faced buy headquarters alley near station stands today ran office organise local owned mansion house women old young meet lovers took high circles society supported uprising standing destroyed civil war network women worked close city known exchange king charles_ii establishments declared sound organisation known politicians time largely shielded legal proceedings extensive london network clients court government increasing immunity prosecution stature hate figure particularly thousands london afford bound terms contracts forbidden marry houses target swept london starting tuesday rioting lasted days young burnt smashed supported charles continental style court attacked assaulting women tearing looting property destroying building following riot page listed sent king lover notorious wild historians active role page writing document turner suggest organ political behalf anonymous radical act public satire owners request act behalf sisters repay rebuilding funded national tax address prostitute list sites struggle addressed splendid eminent lady pleasure humble petition company distressed signed behalf sisters fellow day dog lane street lane close east etc given great experience argued able deeply prostitutes city fall rough hands wrote expect favour unto poor noted petition letter finely tuned political dynamics day printer arrested court censor writes poor petition jury notice petition caused broadside poems ballads subject following year historian identifies event example new sexuality genuine political attack satire street commentary theatre came years riots mob gathered swore ground protection local prevented attack political affiliation married widely considered lover sir nicknamed sir prominent whig anti catholic anti gave large political house said turn occasion party prostitutes story night promptly turned local ballad player career period gave leverage political financial underworld fierce enemies player support anti catholic rebel protestant throne duke proved ruin attempted distance political affiliation ultimately attacked providing royal court catholics financing player brought trial convicted thirty years proceedings prostitutes testified taken businesses continued usual years health deteriorated end life probably tuberculosis appears ill portrait engraved hangs london incarcerated died differing sources place year death point requested decent manner church_of_england buried possibly interred graveyard accounts claim left sermon read said ill long search young clergyman prepared perform funeral rites found following lengthy sermon social morality deceased expected mention shall born lived died born lived died contemporary media rare position reasons common birth woman unmarried rose position high status running large business enterprise mid life independently wealthy woman connected england rich powerful men government court network services high demand counter religious social morals day success fed talent self promotion openly advertised businesses helped build profile regularly referenced party pamphlets street literature ballads inspirations eponymous heroine satire flanders authors frequented houses wrote circulated graphic accounts encounters old girls mentioned rochester figure providing sir quantities young flesh anonymous pamphlet letter lady london anonymous translation set like traditional text book ancient art rhetoric adaptation featured caricature philosopher teaching lifetime worth sexual tricks fallen daughter ruined royalist satirical parody advises young student discourse grave pious aspect pass sincere real recommends researching nature client find advantage particularly state quality affairs hinder 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