HARRIS'S LIST

OF

Covent-Garden Ladies:

OR,

NEW ATALANTIS

For the YEAR 1764.

CONTAINING,

An exact Description of the Persons, Tem-
pers, and Accomplishments of the several Ladies
of Pleasure who frequent COVENT-GARDEN,
and other Parts of this Metropolis.

LONDON:
Printed for H. RANGER, near Temple-Bar.
MDCC.LXIV.

INTRODUCTION.

THE force of prejudice and prepossession is so great, that it would, doubtless, be thought a paradox, if we were to assert that Ladies of Pleasure are public benefits. Certain it is, that many solid arguments may be given to remove that odium, which the profession of a Courtezan has been always obnoxious to. The opinion of one of the Antients, renowned for his rigid virtue, will, doubtless, have some weight with some men more auftere than virtuous, and some ladies outrageoufly virtuous, who seem to be of opinion, that

The nation ne'er will thrive,
Till all the whores are burnt alive.

This renowned Antient is no other than
Cato the Cenfor himself: that illustrious
personage,

Yale
**Lewis Walpole**

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personage, as we are told by Horace, once
feeling a man of quality come out of a
brothel, accosted him thus. " This con-
duct is highly meritorious; this is true,
virtue: I cannot sufficiently applaud you
upon this occasion. You set an example
worthy to be imitated by our youth; for
when luft boils in their veins, they should
repair to some such place as this, and not
debauch the wives and daughters of their
neighbours." Hence we see that Cato,
the rigid Cato himself, was aware, that
Women of Pleasure are of some utility in
a state.

To so illustrious a suffrage, I shall add
that of the Venetian Senate, famed for its
policy and wisdom. These respectable Fa-
thers, whenever there happens to be a
dearth of Courtezans in the city of Venice,
fend gallies in quest of them to the coun-
tries where the finest are to be found,
and when they arrive, loaded with this pre-
cious commodity, the inhabitants in ge-
neral are as lavish in the praise of their
governors,

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governors, as if these vessels brought them
the treasure of the Indies. Indeed, in
many countries, the common prostitutes,
have been in a particular manner under
the protection of the magistrates, and this
has been always productive of very good
effects. In this country they were once
under the care of the Bishop of Win-
chester, and indeed they are so absolutely
necessary in a state, that the ingenious Mr.
Becket, some years ago, offered to the
government a project for having Ladies of
Pleasure lodged in public edifices by the
government; their prices ascertained, and
their whole conduct regulated by rules,
the observance of which should be exacted
by persons appointed to superintend them.
Though a project for erecting such public
feraglios can hardly be considered as a
project for the advancement of religion
and virtue, certain it is, that were the re-
forming plan to be thoroughly carried into
execution, and all Ladies of Pleasure ba-
nished society, both religion and virtue,
instead of being promoted thereby, as some
mistaken

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miftaken zealots are apt to think, would
in the end greatly suffer. Were there no
common women, young fellows would be
more earneſt and affiduous in their attacks
of the virtuous; and this would naturally
introduce the barbarous and absurd prac-
tice of abridging the liberty of women,
and keeping them mewed up, as they are
in Spain, Portugal, Turkey, and elsewhere.
The ill conſequence which would refult
from ſuch a practice is obvious: And
there is one more shocking than all the
reſt, with which, according to the excellent
author of the Spirit of Laws, the confine-
ment of women is attended: His words
are, *L'esclavage de femmes conduit au pêche
que la Nature defavoue.* " The con-
finement of the ſex leads to that fin which
Nature diſavows." Indeed, ſuch works of
darkneſs are moſt common in countries
where women are moſt under reſtraint.
Not to mention Spain, Italy, and Con-
ſtantinople, where the women are ſhut up
in ſeraglios, the Sin againſt Nature is ſo
common, that moſt of the ballads which

are

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are ſung in the public ſtreets, turn upon
that ſubject and drinking. If then we are
free from ſome of the moſt odious vices
which prevail in countries ſubject to
despotic ſway, we are in ſome meaſure
indebted for this happineſs to the Women
of the Town. How cruel then is it to
perſecute thoſe who ſhould be cheriſhed,
as conducive to the welfare of the Public?
But tho' theſe arguments, however ſup-
ported by experience, and backed by the
authority of a Roman Cenſor, may perhaps
be considered by ſome as the common
topicks of modern free-thinkers, we ſhall
produce an authority to which none will
prefume to object.

A worthy prelate, who was lately Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, expresſes himſelf to
this effect upon the ſubject of concubinage:
" We have ſeen, ſays that learned author,
what the Greeks thought of adultery, but
they appear to have a more favourable
opinion of concubinage, it being permit-
ed every where, and that without ſcandal,

to

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to keep as many misbreffes as they pleafed. Nor is it to be wondered at that Heathens ſhould run into ſuch exceſſes, when the Hebrews, and of thofe the moſt reſnowned for piety, ſuch as Abraham and David, allowed themſelves the fame liberty. Again, harlots, ſuch as our women of the town, were no leſs common than concubines, being tolerated in moſt of the Grecian and other commonwealths : nor was the uſe of them thought repugnant to good manners. The wifeft of the Heaſthen ſages were of the fame mind: Solon allowed common women to go publickly to thofe who hired them, and encouraged the Athenian youth to pour out their luſt upon theſe, to prevent their making attempts upon the wives and daughters of citizens." This is farther confirmed by the teſtimony of Cicero, who challenges all perſons to name any time when men were not countenanced in this practice. Nor ſhould it be thought ſurprizing, that Heathens allowed themſelves this liberty, when the Jews look'd upon it as lawful.

They

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They were indeed forbidden to com
mit adultery and fornication, under
fevere penalties; but theſe, as Gro-
tius obſerves, were thought to concern
only women of their own nation, their
law not extending to foreigners; and we
find accordingly that publick ſtews were
openly tolerated among them, and women
refiding there taken under the protection
of the government, as appears from the
two harlots, who contended in open court,
and were heard by king Solomon.

Does the utility of courtezans in a ſtate
require any farther proof, when it is ſup-
ported by the opinion of all the ſages of
antiquity, corroborated by that of a Chri-
tian divine? It cannot indeed be denied
by any one, that is not utterly unacquaint-
ed with the world, that public ſtews are
absolutely neceſſary for the prefervation
of chaſtity and virtue; and it muſt be
acknowledged, that there never was a
greater occafion for ſuch a licence than at
prefent, in order to oppoſe the prevailing
ſchemes of gallantry, the intent of which
ſeems

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teems to be to corrupt all without distinction, and to make a general feraglio of the whole nation.

May then both Laws and Magistrates be kind to those public-spirited Nymphs, who contribute to item the torrent of corruption, by holding forth the Circean cup of pleasure to every lover that offers. May the Statesman, the Soldier, and the Lawyer pour out their treasures before you.

Attach yourselves with constancy to your keepers, footh their amorous flames; preserve their ardour unabated. With every artifice rouse faint desire, and make them young once more. Reflect, that if you neglect your keeper, your lofty galant must lack his necessary supply. Keepers are the sinews of your trade; may they multiply instead of decreasing; may they be always ready and willing to keep up the call as honest Nature bids: So shall the public good be invigorated, the cause of virtue promoted, and the most abomiable of all vices entirely rooted out.

ADVERS

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## Advertisement.

MR. HARRIS begs leave to return his sincere annual acknowledgements to his customers for all their past favours, and humbly hopes the following Lift for the Year 1764 will meet with as favourable a reception as the preceding Volumes have done: and as he has lately received some hints from anonymous correspondents in relation to his Plan; he affures them if they will condescend to favour him with a line directed to his Publisher, where he may have the pleasure of waiting on them, he will readily embrace every opportunity of affluring them, a

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them, and the Public in general, how
ready he is to submit to their propo-
fals, if it can be made appear that
what they offer is really for the utili-
ty of the work.

And as one or two Gentlemen
have complained that they cannot
find some of the Women mentioned
in his former Lifts, he desires them to
confider how difficult it is to ascertain
the Place of Abode of such a number
of people, who so frequently change
their Lodgings, and that it is impoffi-
ble for him to be more accurate; yet
he will always be ready to receive any
intelligence of those changes, which
shall be corrected as soon as poffible;
and additional names will also be
inflerted, from time to time, as they
come to hand.

CON-

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CONTENTS.

A

A-ll-n, Sally, Page 3
Atkinf-n, Mifs, 87

Ad-ms, Mifs, 99

A---n, Mrs. 124

B

B-rret, alias M-rlow, Poll, 108

Br-wn, Kitty, 117

B-rr-t, Mifs, 61

B-rry, Mifs, 21

B-w-r, Mifs, ibid

B-wen, Mifs, 14

B-wen, Nancy, 15

B-ird, Mifs, 14

Br-wn, Mifs, 35

Bl-nd, Mifs, 37

B-ll, Mifs, 109

Bird, Mifs, 121

a 2

B-rk,

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G

G-ld, Poll, 7
G-ymp-ll, Mifs, 32
Gr-ffiths, Mifs, 93
Gr-nt, Mifs, 121
G-bbs, Mifs, 122

H

H-r-rd, Mifs, 12
H-ar-s, Mifs, 11
H-llow-y, Jenny, 23
Hay-s, Mifs, 19
H-ll, Nancy, 38
H-milt-n, Mrs. 54
H-df-n, Mifs, 56
H-athcote, Mifs,
Hareld-n, alias Merc-r, Mifs, 107
H-df-n, Mifs, 119
H-mpton, Mifs, 122
H-wkins, Mifs, 111

I

J-hnf-n, Mifs, 34
J-rvis, Mifs, 90
J-rdan, Mifs, 94
Jull-ett, Mifs, 101
Johnf-n, Poll, 102

K-nt,

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K

K-nt, Mifs, 115

L

L-ther, Mifs, 70
L-cy, Mifs, 12
L-yd, Mifs, 32
L-yd, Mifs, ibid
L-fle, Mifs, 42
L-ttle, Mifs, 62
L-wis, Mifs, 78
L-wis, Mifs, 88

M

M-fon, Mifs, 113
M-unt, Mifs, 94
M-yne, Mifs, 1
M-tham, Mifs, 6
M-tth-ws, Mifs, 31
Moyft-n, Mifs, 59
M-fs, Mifs, 64
M-rray, Mifs, 83
M-clean, Mifs, 90
M-nners, Mifs, 93
M-cklin, Mifs, 121
M-rphy, Mifs, 121
Maxw-ll, Mifs, 109
M-ckenfie, 110

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HARRIS'S

HARRIS'S LIST

For the Year 1764.

Mifs M-yne, Bow-street.

HIS young lady, is rather above the middle fize, and has a complexion which perhaps cannot be equalled by any of the beauties in the following Lift. Her hair, which is of the moft beautiful brown, the sparkling black eye, and pulpy lip, heightened by the additional advantage of a fine set of teeth, the well-shaped neck, and snowy arm, are among the leaft of her excellencies. In the

[ 2 ]

the tender preludes of blifs she is beyond description. Reader, we cannot describe the joys of the emphatic squeeze, the grafp divine, or the oft-imprinted kifs; this we leave to ******.

Mifs Sally W--d alias N-fb-tt, Stanhope Street,
Clare Market.

A short lady, with fine hair, but no great share of beauty, yet that deficiency is made up by her agreeable conversation and polite behaviour, which must always recommend her to the best company. She was debauch'd about three years ago, since which, she has been in keeping by the son of an eminent brewer near Long Acre, who promised her marriage, but has now turn'd his back on her, and married another woman, on which account a lawsuit is commenced. She has not been on the Town above six months. We must recommend her as a good bedfellow.

Mifs

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Mifs Ph-llis, Tavistock Court.

A fine crummy plump-made dame, and a veteran in the mysteries of Venus. Her chief trade is among elderly gentlemen, and she appears a perfect mistress of all the incentives, modes, and devices to gratify the vitiated appetite and arbitrary taste of the worn-out debauchee.---When a person of this cast makes known his wants, the Waiter at M---lby's Bagnio sends a note to Mifs P---s in Tavistock Court. She has little or no passion, and, to a brisk active partner, must be very cloying. She is rated but twenty-six in our books; but we are of opinion that she has at least a good ten years: Indeed we have often wondered that she has not altered her present plan, and submitted to the more profitable branch of showing company, rather than that of seeing it.

Mifs Sally A-l-n, Bow-street.

Little tempting Sally was born in Westminister, and debauched about five years ago,

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ago, four and a half of which she has been
connected with one gentleman.---We have
long wished for an opportunity to do this
lady justice. She is but twenty-two years
of age, rather low in figure, but very
pretty; as to justness and symmetry of
parts, a perfect Venus, and a set of teeth
with which she may challenge any lady in
the land.---Perhaps no girl living enjoys
the critical minute with such uncommon
effectacy and raptures; in short, several of
our correspondents alledge, she is the best
bedfellow in town, without exception.
We shall sum up her character in the fol-
lowing lines of which she is really deferring:

Little Cupids basking lie,
In the sunshine of her eye;
Zephyrs court her fragrant breath,
Sporting round her lips and teeth;
On her cheeks, the roves blow,
On her neck, the lillies grow;
All that's graceful, all that's sweet,
In her snowy bosom meet.

Mifs

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Mifs D-y, Spring-Gardens.

This celebrated heroine, though little in
figure, but great in fame, deferves, by
birth as well as merit, to appear one of the
foremost in our Lift, being the supposed
daughter of a gentleman of the first class,
on in Ireland, (famous for his illicit amours)
by his lady's waiting-woman; who, 'tis
said, by her violent raptures in the action
of love, used to so shake, dislurb, and
drive about the helpless fœtus in her womb,
as, by repeated shocks, to leisten the ten-
der compages in its first efforts of expand-
ing itself into the dimensions allotted it
by nature; and that her epitomised and
curtailed form hath been ever since the
unhappy consequence. Mifs D-y's, low-
ness of figure hath been however produc-
tive of extraordinary vivacity, and un-
common quickness of invention, when dif-
posed to allure and please her gallants.
By what fatality she came on the public,
is as yet a secret; but she seems to be en-
tirely devoted to the pleasures and private
amusements

amusements

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amusements of the genteel and gay of the
other sex, and may be seen often in the
Park, in company with two or three offi-
cers of the Foot-guards. She seems to be
a lover of gaming; and even when enga-
ged in a party at play, she still has an eye
to bufinefs. If she is at any time unfortu-
nate, she repays her debts of honour, by
yielding up her person.

Mifs M-th-m, Spring-Gardens.

A tall, genteel, well made woman, brown
complexion and hair, was born at Knights-
bridge, where she went to service, and
was debauch'd by her master's son, an emi-
nent brewer of that place; is now in her
twenty-eight year, eighth of which she has
been on the town, and about two years
ago went by the names of F-wler and
Cl-rke. No woman living has perhaps
had the like constitution. Her passion for
drink is inordinate, seldom or ever sober,
and when intoxicated extremely riotous,
and will make every person give way to
her

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her obfinate humors; fifty shillings a week
does not excufe her gallants in expences
for punch bowls, glasses &c.--should any of
the fifterhood happen to be in her company,
we recommend to them the utmoft deco-
rum, as ſhe has a natural propenſity to
quarrel, and will give both them and their
gentlemen ſuch a volley of abufe, as is
ſcarce to be equall'd at Billingſgate. One
word of advice we beg leave to give her;
not to be given ſo much to the marvellous,
as we utterly abominate a liar: in this and
other reſpects, we hope to be able to give
a better account of her next year. As to
the price of her favours, ſhe will expeſt a
guinea for a night's lodging, but a five
and three-pence (which ſhe terms a
whore's curle) will ſatisfy her for a Flyer.

Poll G-ld, Spring-Gardens.

This lady is short, pretty, and very
agreeable as to her person, and sings a
good fong, in other reſpects co-equal with
the above lady, to whom she is an inſpe-
rable

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rable companion. Has been on the Town
now about ten years, and in various scenes
of life, like a paper kite, sometimes high,
sometimes low. They are constant customers
at the Yellow Cat, near Exeter Change
in the Strand, where they push about the
poppet with such amazing rapidity, that a
bottle is emptied at two draughts, by these
Bacchanalians. Mother R--pell has often
declar'd she would give them their board
for their drink only, were she but sure of
the constancy of her beloved Jemmy--but
alas! all flesh is frail!

Miss Th-m-s, Bow-Street.

This young lady is looked upon by several gentlemen, as alone equivalent to all the other women of pleasure in the purlieus of the Garden. The gay and youthful Florio, (so well known in this metropolis for his active feats in the soft laboratory of love) has often pronounced her, at the Ben Johnson and Rose, the Queen of the Garden. She is in our opinion rather too lufty

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lufty and fat, but her limbs are exquisitely
well turn'd, and she has a sweetneſs in her
face, and ſprightlineſs in her manner, that
cannot fail to engage; her braſts rife in so
happy a ſwell, as to form an enchanting
fulneſs of boſom, which has ſuch an effect
on the eye, as to ſeem ſleſh hardening into
white marble, veined with blue. She is
now in full bloom, and ready to open the
afylum of pleafure to every gentleman who
chufes to come up to her price, which is
one guinea, and half a crown to the ſervant;
ſhe frequently pops into B-pt-ſte's Jelly-
houſe in Ruffel Street.

Miss Harri-t Sm-th, Bow-Street.

A tall, genteel, ſlim lady, very agreeable
and polite in her behaviour, about twenty
five years old, but extremely vain and
conceited of her person. She is the daugh-
ter of an eminent midwife near town, but
as to any further anecdotes of her paren-
tage we can't yet learn, ſhe not having
been in the purlieus of the garden above
fix.

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fix months---Has hitherto had a set of
genteel acquaintance, but we are forry to
fay, she uses her best friends ill. Like
many other ladies, she has a certain failing,
which is their certain ruin, viz. that of having
a favourite man; but shame on it, he's of
the lowest clafs, chief pimp at a noted
tavern near the Garden, and for whom she
has refused many a gentleman admittance
to her bed, which he occupies every night.
We are also inform'd they have exchang'd
mutual vows, to be each as industrious as
possible in their several vocations, and as
soon as a competency is hoarded up, (of
which she is very careful) they intend to
tie the matrimonial noose, and set up a
bagnio.---Diligentia fit ubertas. It is whif-
per'd she has a small settlement from some
old Don in the country of twenty-pounds a
year for life, and that her virgin rose was
pluck'd at the tender age of fifteen. A
correspondent informs us, she is extremely
lazy, and gives but little joy, and should
any gentleman chuse to tafe, he recom-
mends

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recommends a pair of Mrs. P---llips's best town-made spurs.

N. B. She has got a pretty maid, who
intends to set up for herself, now the play-
houses are open, but often vows to her
mirtrels, " that she'll never make the dish-
clout her table-cloth."

Mifs F-rd, Ruffel-Street.

Very impetuous in her desires; her
cheeks too often flushed with a deep scar-
let; her breasts round and firm; sparkling
eyes, dark hair; has an odd passion for
viewing, stroking, and even kissing the
Maypole of Love when erect; and the more
enormous its dimensions, the greater plea-
fure she receives.---As soon as matters are
brought to this issue, her delight increases,
and she twines and encircles her lover with
the highest warmth of passion, until the myf-
terious titillation, and melting flow, is over.

Mifs H-rr-s, Bedford-Court.

This is a fresh bit of goods; excessively
genteel, fair complexion, blue eyes, and
light

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light brown hair. Her customers are of
the genteeleft class of young citizens.
She contributes every thing in her power
to entertain her gallants, and her lodgings
are very neatly furnished.

Mif's L-cy, Bedford Court, Covent Garden.

Mif's L-cy is now in full trade, and has
some of the best company. She is tall in
her person, and has an agreeable smile of
complacency on her face; her behaviour
quite genteel and easy, and seems thoroughly
bred for the sport. This being her first
appearance in our Lift, we wish her all the
success she deserves; and shall at another
opportunity give some truly laughable
anecdotes concerning her.

Mif's H-v-rd, Ruffel-Street.

A good-natured, crummy wench, capa-
ble of going through all kinds of buſineſs,
and to whom we take this opportunity of
acknowledging our obligations, for her rea-
dy and obliging dispoſition on all occaſions.

Mif's

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Mif's R-Is, Orange Court, Castle Street.

This young tit, tho' not a first-rate
beauty, was framed by Nature to please,
as much, if not more, than many who are
confidered as such. She is not tall, and
consequently cannot be looked upon as a
fine woman; but the exactness of her
shape, and her great fprightlineſs and vi-
vacity, more than compensate for the
ſhortneſs of her ſtature; but if there be
any objection to her person, there can be
none to her face. Her eyes are black and
lively; there is a *Je ne fçais quoy* that plea-
fes in all her features; her complexion is
extremely fine, and though ſhe perhaps
may not be deemed a beauty by conno-
iffeurs, ſhe cannot be denied to be extreme-
ly pretty; and the pretty are more gene-
rally liked, though not so much admired,
as the beautiful; and it is not one of the
leaſt of her attractions, that ſhe is a great
lover of the ſport, but when enjoyed
loves with a loose, and meets her man
with equal raptures.

C

Mif's