Lydia Rogers
Found guilty of allowing the devil to draw blood from her hand to form an evil pact. Confessed her crimes to a minister. 1658
Site of witchcraft
The London Dungeon
We are not aware of any evidence connecting Rogers with this particular site in Wapping.
E1, Watts Street, 14, Turner's Old Star Public House
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lydia Rogers
Supposed witch. The wife of carpenter John Rogers, she belonged to a radical ...
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Lydia Rogers
Tourist attraction. It portrays various gory and macabre historical events, u...
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Lydia Rogers
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The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...
The stone with the 'W', or 'M', looks not to have been created as part of this design. "W' for well?
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for providing the photographs of the plaques.
Built as Paradise House, or Newington Park House, in the late 1700s for Jonathan Hoare. William Crawshay (1764 – 1834) bought it in 1811. He objected to his daughter's choice of a husband so it was...
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