“David Courtlaw!” she repeated. "Will he consent, to be searched?" inquired Jonathan. In this spy theory, however, he had no faith whatsoever. In consequence of the infamous abuse of its liberties, an act for the entire suppression of the Old Mint was passed in the ninth year of the reign of George the First, not many months before the date of the present epoch of this history; and as, after the destruction of Whitefriars, which took place in the reign of Charles the Second, owing to the protection afforded by its inmates to the Levellers and Fifth-monarchy-men, when the inhabitants of Alsatia crossed the water, and settled themselves in the borough of Southwark,—so now, driven out of their fastnesses, they again migrated, and recrossing the Thames, settled in Wapping, in a miserable quarter between Artichoke Lane and Nightingale Lane, which they termed the New Mint. He could remember when women laid away their gowns in lavender—as this girl's mother had. But we were both pledged to secrecy, and I couldn’t reveal my part for fear that I would lose my place.
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