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the name of Jack M——, the taking 
away of the fair Quaker was com- 
mitted. 
Having received his orders, he pro- 
eceded to a watchmaker’s-shop, on the 
east side of the country-market, which 
commanded a good view of Whecler’s 
house, in order to reconnoitre. Re- 
peating his visits, under pretence of 
repairing or regulating his watch, he 
discovered that a female, named H. 7 
frequently went to Wheeler’s, and was 
well acquainted with the daughter; 
and the skilful intriguer was not long 
before he found that this woman was 
precisely fitted for his purpose. 
Mrs. H had formerly been a 
servant at Whecler’s, since which she 
had been in service at one Betts, a 
glass-cutter in Cockspur-strect, a large 
house facing Pall Mall, afterwards 
occupied by Collet, who marricd his 
widow, and, before the recent destruc- 
tion, divided into two or three tene- 
ments, one a toolmaker’s, another a 
watchmaker’s. She had then been 
lately discharged from Betts’. In- 
stead of going into another service, be- 
ing a handsome woman, one of the 
apprentices, named EH , married 
her, and she was almost immediately 
afterwards laid hold of by Jack M. 1 
and readily engaged in the procuring 
of the fair Quaker for the young 
Prince, which her previous familiarity 
rendered easy. As the parents allow- 
ed their daughter to go out with Mrs. 
H , interviews were thus obtained 
between the parties ; and, on the elope- 
ment, it was found that her clothes 
and trinkets had been clandestinely 
removed. Old Mrs. Wheeler never 
recovered from the shock, and it was 
said she descended to the grave with 
a broken heart. 
A handsome reward was no doubt 
given to Jack M. ; and, on the 
arrival of the Queen, a relative was, 
through his interest, appointed her 
English teacher, and another has since 
proceeded gradually to the bench of 
bishops. Mrs. H—— was said to 
have received 500/. for her share in 
the business. Whatever might be the 
sum, her husband was by means of it 
enabled to go into partnership with a 
fellow-apprentice, one S , who had 
then just returned from the East In- 
dies, whither he had been sent to one 
Further Details relative to the Fair Quaker. 
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[July 1, 
of the nabobs, along with some lustres, 
to unpack and put them up, and had 
thus accumulated a smali sum. The 
one was a parish apprentice, the other 
the son of a poor clergyman. They 
opened, in opposition to their former 
master, a shop the corner of Cockspur- 
Street and Hedge-lane, afterwards 
called Whitcomb-street, whieh has 
also suffered dilapidation; but the shop 
has re-appeared in splendor. 
Such is the history of this elope- 
ment, which I received from my mo- 
ther and other relations, who had pecu- 
liar means of knowing the facts; as 
also from a_ fellow-apprentice of 
H——’s, one Stock, who afterwards 
kept the Lion and Lamb at Lewisham, 
and whose wife (who afterwards mar- 
ried a Mr. Peter White, of that vil- 
lage,) had also been a fellow-servant 
of H--—’s wife, while at Betts’. 
It was generally reported that the 
fair Quaker was kept at Lambeth, or 
some other village on the south of the 
Thames; a notion which probably 
arose from its being most customary 
for the Prince to ride out over West- 
minster-bridge: but I have heard it 
Said that she resided at Knightsbridge, 
at a farm which supplied the royal 
family with asses’ milk. The house, 
being retired from the road, and less 
than a nile from the palaces, was well 
adapted for the purpose of private 
visits. 
It is scarccly worth while to notice, 
that those who say the King saw her, 
as he passed to and from the Parlia- 
ment-house, can have no knowledge 
of that part of London, and the situa- 
tion of her father’s shop. 
Was not Mrs. H——’s maiden 
name Lightfoot? This might probably 
be ascertained by the register of St. 
Martin’s in the Fields. As the 
Wheelers would naturally use that 
name in relating the story, as being 
that by which they could best desig- 
nate her, has not some confusion 
arisen between the two females con- 
cerned in the elopement? 
T. G. H. 
** We shall be glad of the anecdotes 
of Gsborne. We give ready insertion to 
the above, but still rely on the communi- 
cation from Warminster, which described 
her as Wheeler’s niece, and the wife of 
Axford. 
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