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  June 6th
In their defence, the prisoners denied that they were Mohocks, alleging that they were 'Scourers,' and had gone out, with a magistrate's sanction, to scour the streets, arrest Mohocks and other offenders, and deliver them up to justice.
As an instance of the gross misconduct of the watch, it was further alleged that they, the watch, had on the same, night actually presumed to arrest a peer of the realm, Lord Hitchinbroke, and had latterly adopted the practice of going their rounds by night accompanied by savage dogs.
And after these Mohocks, as they styled themselves, had held the town in terror for two years, after a royal proclamation had offered £100 reward for the apprehension of any one of them, when these four persons were at last brought to justice, the amount of punishment inflicted was merely the paltry fine of 3s.
www.thebookofdays.com /months/june/6.htm   (2930 words)

  
  Mohocks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mohocks were a gang that terrorized London in the early eighteenth century, attacking men and women alike.
The Mohocks were the worst and the last of the gangs of street bullies who terrorized London after the Restoration.
The first gang to appear were known as the Muns, who were followed by the Tityré Tūs, the Hectors, the Scourers, the Nickers, and the Hawkubites.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohocks   (333 words)

  
 Hawkubites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A pamphlet of the time is called An Argument, proving from History, Reason, and Scripture, that the present Race of Mohocks and Hawke-bites are the Goy and Magog mentioned in the Revelations; and therefore that this vain and transitory World will shortly be brought to its final Dissolution.
Written by a reverend Divine, who took it from the Mouth of the Spirit of a Person who was slain by the Mohocks.
The "victim" in the pamphlet, called the "Spirit," says, "I am the porter that was barbarously slain in Fleet Street.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hawkubites   (282 words)

  
 Mohocks — Infoplease.com
You sent your Mohocks next abroad, With razors armed, and knives; Who on night-walkers made inroad, And scared our maids and wives; They scared the watch, and windows broke.
Mohocks - Mohocks A class of ruffians who in the 18th century infested the streets of London.
Scowerers - Scowerers A set of rakes in the eighteenth century, who, with the Nickers and Mohocks, committed...
www.infoplease.com /dictionary/brewers/mohocks.html   (195 words)

  
 Haldimand Mohocks and Allies Gaming Commission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Haldimand Mohocks are the First Nations people who during the American Revolution, at the encouragement of Frederick Haldimand, King George III's ambassador, fought side by side with the British during this important historic event.
In response to the Haldimand Mohocks support during this engagement, King George III issued the Haldimand Treaty, thereby defining the Grand River Country.
The King rewarded the Haldimand Mohocks with land on either side of the Grand River, in the wilderness of present-day Southern Ontario.
www.sngc.ca /about.htm   (224 words)

  
 Amphisbaen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
To amuse themselves at night, Mohocks would pursue, attack, rob and sometimes even murder anyone who came within their villainous grasp.
Simply because an 18th century Mohock had the same attitude toward life as the equally beautiful and deadly amphisbaena.
Your only salvation is to scurry quickly away, and preferably uphill, for it is more difficult for this snake to travel uphill than down, because it propels itself by each head embracing its sibling, and rotating like a wheel.
www2.netdoor.com /~tlothian/ABC's/AbcAmphisbaen.htm   (565 words)

  
 THE ROMANCE READER reviews: Unveiled by Jenni Licata   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
She wants him to infiltrate a band of hooligans who call themselves the Mohocks, and she fears they are planning an attempt on her life.
Tori fears he may have fallen in with a band of rowdies who will lead him into ruin, and she is determined to prevent it.
Tori herself is portrayed as foolhardy on several occasions, rushing into danger without any thought for her personal safety (such as trailing the Mohocks, dressed as a man, alone, at night, through the streets of London when she knows that the gang has been preying on people).
www.theromancereader.com /licata-unveiled.html   (736 words)

  
 Old Fort Johnson
The Interpreter returned at 5 a Clock and reported that the Mohocks would be all here as sooon as possible and begged Sir William would stay until they arrived and set off together.
Moses was sent by the Mohocks to let Sr.
Wm know they were assembling as fast as they could and would be here in the Morning early.
www.oldfortjohnson.org /muster2007.html   (839 words)

  
 Unlikely Stories: Night of the Mohocks by K. M. Dersley
With a screech the Mohocks bounded into the sand pit, some of them punching triumphantly at the air.
And didn’t these Mohocks wonder why she had run away if she was so glad now to embrace them and give them what they wanted?
Though Sticks had seemed to accept everything that happened that night as unavoidable, if I went with her as well he might take it as the final insult.
home.flash.net /~unlikely/nightofthemohocks.html   (882 words)

  
 The Mohocks
I, for my part, remember the ancient Mohocks of King Charles his Days; I was a young Man then; now times are alter'd with me—some of the greatest Men of the Kingdom were Mohocks, yet for all that we did not care a Fig for them.
Justice—yet Mohocks inclusively are comprehended in disorderly Persons, and disturbers of her Majesty's Peace, and as such, I say, they may and ought to be committed.
An please your Worship we have brought some Mohocks before your Honours; This, an please your Honours, is the Emperor, and this his Grand Vizier, and all the rest are Princes of the Blood.
www.pos1.info /m/mohocks.htm   (4270 words)

  
 The Avengers published by Thorpe & Porter (UK) - The Mohocks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
She tells him that she knows that it’s The Mohocks he’s after because she reads ‘news as well as fashion’, and that she’ll be down to help him the next day.
As they rendezvous in Dunminster, The Mohocks are carrying out a cowardly attack on a milkman nearby.
Unknown to them, a meeting of The Mohocks is underway, but The Avengers make short work of them, with Steed finally knocking out ‘the last of The Mohocks’.
wingedavenger.theavengers.tv /comics/thorpeporter1.htm   (717 words)

  
 DOMINIUM
In October 2003 there was the premiere of the fourth album of Dominium called Mohocks Club.
One of the Mohocks Club tracks "The Howling" was included on the compilation record of that event.
The Mohocks Club material consequently appeared in the Century Media, Season of Mist and Sony distribution catalogues.
dominium.metal.pl /hist_e.htm   (1081 words)

  
 DOMINIUM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Mohocks Club's Member is not informing outside persons of his membership
Mohocks Club's Members obtain new names, which are given by Founders - the Mighty Archonts
Mohocks Club's members can create inner units of Mohocks Club.
www.dominium.metal.pl /mhcs_e.htm   (173 words)

  
 Hamilton Spectator - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The two licensing groups are known as the Six Nations Internet Gaming Regulatory Body and the Haldimand Mohocks and Allies Gaming Commission.
SixNet, Six Nations Internet Gaming Regulatory Body and the Haldimand Mohocks and Allies Gaming Commission are all located in the same office -- in the headquarters of the Grand River Enterprises cigarette factory on Chiefswood Road in Ohsweken.
A HALDIMAND Mohocks gaming licence costs $3,000 US per month per site, along with a $5,000 US non-refundable application deposit.
www.hamiltonspectator.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1159740909769&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1014656511815   (2270 words)

  
 The Journal To Stella by Jonathan Swift eBook by BookRags
3 The Mohocks succeeded the Scowrers of William iii.’s reign.
Swift was in considerable alarm about the Mohocks throughout March, and said that they were all Whigs.
The reports that numbers of persons, including men of figure, had joined together to commit assaults in the streets, made many fear to leave their houses at night.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/4208/424.html   (408 words)

  
 USMHWeb28
Sir William Johnson worked tirelessly at cultivating a peace treaty between the English and the Indians, and his efforts were beginning to bear fruit.
Beginning in October, 1758 conferences had been held between representatives from the province of Pennsylvania and the Indian tribes of the Mohocks, Oneidoes, Onondagoes, Senecas, Tuscaroras, Nanticokes/Conys, Kandt, Tuteloes, Chugnuts, Chehohockes, Munsies/Minisinks, and the Wapings/Pumptons.
The conferences were held at Easton, Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia along the Pennsylvania, New Jersey border.
www.motherbedford.com /USMHWeb28.htm   (720 words)

  
 Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Mohocks by John Gay is a classic work of literature that can be enjoyed by all.
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The Voice of the People by Ellen Glasgow is a classic work of literature that can be enjoyed by all.
www.favoriteebookstore.com /fiction/-p16.htm   (354 words)

  
 Unveiled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Lil' bro Charles is running off with a bunch of rakes/terrorists-in-the-making called "The Mohocks".
His mother is French, and at a time when England and France aren't exactly bosom buddies (this is the era of Queen Anne, circa early 1700's), his loyalty to the Crown is called to question.
When Queen Anne sets him to infiltrate the Mohocks, he is not blind to the fact that the mission is also a test of his loyalty.
www.mrsgiggles.com /books/unveiled.html   (501 words)

  
 Frontiersmen of New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A copy of the congress held with the Mohock Indians, I have the honor herewith to transmit to your Lordship, and have ordered copies of the Indian deeds, that were executed on the occasion, to be prepared in order to forward them to your Lordship.
They appear to be actuated, as a community, by principles of rectitude that would do honor to the most civilized nations.
The land on the Mohock river is extremely fertile and under the highest cultivation, producing as good wheat and peas as any in the old countries.
www.fortklock.com /simmscourt.htm   (2829 words)

  
 The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan - Chapter 44
Here is the D---- and all to do with these Mohocks.
for fear of the Mohocks, and I have given him warning of it too.
There is a proclamation out against the Mohocks.
www.literaturepost.com /chapter/20425.html   (2892 words)

  
 The Hell-Fire Clubs
The Mohocks, and the stereotypical rakes who emerged from this street gang unruliness, were gentleman of talent and nominal breeding who drank, gamed and wenched with flamboyance.
It was out of this leisure time that the club was born.
The club, more formal than any Mohock fraternity, developed from the coffee-house to the Kit-Cat Club.
freemasonry.bcy.ca /history/hellfire/hellfire.html   (3756 words)

  
 The Journal to Stella, by Jonathan Swift (letter43)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
I was at Court to-day, and nobody invited me to dinner, except one or two, whom I did not care to dine with; so I dined with Mrs.
Young Davenant[4] was telling us at Court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran his chair through with a sword.
My man tells me that one of the lodgers heard in a coffee-house, publicly, that one design of the Mohocks was upon me, if they could catch me; and though I believe nothing of it, I forbear walking late, and they have put me to the charge of some shillings already.
etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /s/swift/jonathan/s97s/letter43.html   (4103 words)

  
 Saint Nectaire Hotel at travel.freewebsites.com - FRANCE HOTELS MASSIF CENTRAL France Hotels Auvergne B&BsFRANCE ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Pray heaven he has not fallen in with a band of Mohocks, and had the nose of him split open--to say nothing of worse!" "Are men really served so bad as that?" asked Tom, as the two turned back from the citizen's house whither saint nectaire hotel they had escorted their grateful protegee.
"Those Mohocks should be wiped out without mercy by the arm of the law; for mercy they show none.
They have read of the horrid cruelties practised by the Indians whose name they bear, and they seek to do the like to the hapless victims whom ill-fortune casts in their way.
travel.freewebsites.com /saint-nectaire-hotel.html   (750 words)

  
 The Innocence of Father Brown, by Gilbert K. Chesterton; The Hammer of God Page 1
Aristocrats live not in traditions but in fashions.
The Bohuns had been Mohocks under Queen Anne and Mashers under Queen Victoria.
But like more than one of the really ancient houses, they had rotted in the last two centuries into mere drunkards and dandy degenerates, till there had even come a whisper of insanity.
www.pagebypagebooks.com /Gilbert_K_Chesterton/The_Innocence_of_Father_Brown/The_Hammer_of_God_p1.html   (635 words)

  
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Emigrants from the Mohocks settled at Sault St Louis near Montreal in a large Village with a few at Aghquissasne below LaGallette
The Illinois have not [been] as yet had any intercourse with us, and their posts in that Country are not as yet taken possession of, they may be 2000
Beside the foregoing Numbers of the Western, or Ottawa Confederacy there are a number of Villages principally of Ottawas [Mohocks] and Chipeweighs settled About the Lake Huron, and Erie and Ontario, who have no fixed residence but employ themselves chiefly in hunting and [who] at the most reasonable Computation must make
www.gbl.indiana.edu /archives/miamis14/M63_43a.html   (677 words)

  
 Scowerers — FactMonster.com
A set of rakes in the eighteenth century, who, with the Nickers and Mohocks, committed great annoyances in London and other large towns.
Who there a watchman took his hourly rounds, Safe from their blows and new-invented wounds?” Gay: Trivia, iii.
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: S - Definitions, origins, and illustrative excerpts for words, phases, and literary allusions starting with "S" Cite
www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/scowerers.html   (139 words)

  
 Gambling in the Grand River Mohock Lands Jurisdiction - Online Casino City
The Haldimand Mohocks and Allies Gaming Commission was established in 2003 to offer gaming licenses in the jurisdiction of the Grand River Mohock Lands.
The commission will grant licenses under the provisions of the Mohock Council Trustees Gaming Law and the Haldimand Mohocks and Allies Gaming Commission Regulations.
This claim is based on an understanding that any Canadian laws preventing licensure would not apply in sovereign tribal territory, and that the Council has not passed a law specifically prohibiting online gaming.
online.casinocity.com /jurisdictions/jurisdiction.cfm?Id=301   (506 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: John Gay & the London Theatre: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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Appendix A: "Were the Mohocks Ever Anything More than a Hairstyle?"
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 Find in a Library: The Mohocks a tragi-comical farce.
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 Old maps of Pennsylvania towns for genealogy
Text says: "By the Country of the six Nations proper is meant that part within which they principally reside, the rest which is of Vast extent being chiefly occupied by their dependants.
The Mohocks are not mentioned as they reside within the limits of N. York at Fort Hunter & Conajohare part of the Oneida Country lies also within that Province the Tuscaroras who form the sixth Nation are omitted it being a southern People that live on lands allotted them between Oneida & Onondaga."
Tribes include Onondagas, Cauygas, Senecas, Oneidas, the Mohocks (Mohawks).
www.oldmapsne.com /category/Pennsylvania/c268   (2327 words)

  
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