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Men with clubs break down the door of a London brothel to take their revenge for being robbed. Engraving, ca. 1795. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
According to Jackson, loc. cit., the house was the Star Tavern near Temple Bar in the Strand, which housed a brothel of which the landlords were Peter Wood and his wife. On 1 July 1749 some sailors at the house were robbed of their valuables. With some colleagues they returned in the night, destroyed the furnishings of the building and ejected the women. On the following day, one of the sailors, Bosavern Penlez, with two others joined a mob inflicting further violence on the house. Penlez was hanged at Tyburn on 18 October 1749
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