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 : for first she herself, with another of her scholars, were apprehended, and committed to Newgate for stealing two pieces of cambric from a linen-draper in Cheapside. Both of them were condemned to die, but only our scholar was executed; for the other came off with what they call a circuit pardon from the judge.

I cannot but reflect upon one crime I did in taking from the hands of a gentlewoman, a bundle of plate when her house was on fire, and conveying it to my own house, and so very fortunate was I in escaping, that I became exceeding remarkable among the thieves for none was great as Moll Flanders; but at length being threatened to be impeached by some in Newgate, (clothed myself in a man's habit though a smooth face (otherwise personal and tall enough) might soon have betrayed me. Who being discovered as he was stealing some goods was taken, and I happily escaped: I had something after this, the happiness of seeing him hanged.