A dark place under the Stairs of Brownrigg's Kitchen where the Girls were confined on Sundays / Mrs Brownrigg's Kitchen with the manner in which she tied up and Stripped her Apprentice Girls

A dark place under the Stairs of Brownrigg's Kitchen where the Girls were confined on Sundays / Mrs Brownrigg's Kitchen with the manner in which she tied up and Stripped her Apprentice Girls. Mrs Brownrigg was a successful midwife in Fleur de Luce Court, Fetter Lane, who took on apprentices to help in her work. The first was mistreated and escaped. Her successor, Mary Clifford, was not so lucky: by the time her mother came enquiring she had been so tortured and beaten that she died. Brownrigg's husband and son took part in the mistreatment but were let off with a six month sentence; Mrs Brownrigg ws hanged on 14 September 1767. Later stories had it that she ". . . whipped three female 'prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole."('Tyburn and Tyburnia', Old and New London: Volume 5 (1878), pp. 188-203. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45231) Key details: see http://web1.pipemedia.net/~sar/bentley/murder_b.htm#Brownrigg