Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… into a legacy of rakery. 11 . Thomas Wentworth, The Wentworth Papers 1705-1739, with a memoir and notes by James J. Cartwright (London: Wyman & Son’s, 1883), p. 277. The Mohock episode did not only generate fear such as the one readily … on March 15 th , which called out the ‘villainous Grubstreet Pamphleteers’ and claimed that the Mohocks took part in a Jacobite plot wherein they were the ‘Forlorn Hope of the French and the Pretender’s Faction’. 18 On March 24 th … William Maitland’s extensive History of London called the rumors surrounding the Mohocks ‘idle and fictitious Stories, artfully contrived to intimidate the People’ 20 – what can be inferred with more accuracy is a general trend of street …
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