Susan Coleman"The cow jumped over the Moon"The cow referred to in the nursery rhyme, Hey Diddle Diddle, was a notorious thief/bawdy-house keeper by the name of Susan Coleman. Her notoreity ensured she was included in several publications that dealt with the criminal underworld.
The fifth and last part of the wandring whore a dialogue between Magdalena, a crafty bawd, Julietta, an exquisite whore, Francion, a lascivious gallant, and Gusman a pimping hector : discovering their diabolical practises at the Half-Crown Chuck-Office : with an additional list of the names of the crafty bawds, common whores, wanderers, pick-pockets, night-walkers, decoys, hectors, pimps and trappanners, Pietro Aretino, London, 1758.
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A catalogue of jilts, cracks, prostitutes, night-walkers, whores, she-friends, kind women, and others of the linnen-lifting tribe who are to be seen every night in the cloysters in Smithfield, from the hours of eight to eleven, during the time of the fair, Anon., London, 1746.
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