Priss Fotheringham

Fotheringham eventually set up as the madam of The Jack-a-Newberry, a tavern on the corner of Whitecross Street and Old Street which was named after the main character of Thomas Deloney's novel Jack of Newbury. She changed the tavern's name to The Six Windmills, and gained notoriety through the expanding printing industry in London. References to the Fotheringham's brothel appear in John Garfield's The Wandering Whore (1660), and The Unparalleled Practices of Mrs Fotheringham (1660); Strange and True News from JackaNewberries (1660); the Strange and True Conference between Two Notorious Bawds (1660) and Man in the Moon (1660). On some occasions wine was also poured into her commodity. She…