Q: "travelling lady"?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/15/2010 01:17 PM, Baker, John wrote:

>         The story is also reported in the London Daily Advertiser (Sept.
>25, 1736), where it says that the sheriff handed M'Cullogh "to a Carr,
>and was his Guard to the House call'd the Ware; from whence he sent him
>that Night, together with his travelling Lady (who had bravely stood all
>the Fires) and the rest of the Prisoners, under a strong Guard to his
>Majesty's Goal at Killmaisham."  This is from Access Newspaper Archives;
>the scan is not the best, so there may be an error somewhere (the
>spelling "Goal" is clear, though).

Closely similar to the Boston newspaper I saw.

Joel

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