Constantia Jones

Constantia Jones (c.1708 – 22 December 1738[1][2]) was a prostitute in London, which was then part of the Kingdom of Great Britain, during the term of Prime Minister Robert Walpole. She was sentenced to hang for stealing 36 shillings and a half-guinea from one of her clients.[3]

  1. ^ "Deaths in History on December 22". OnThisDay.com. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Female executions 1735 – 1799". Capital Punishment U.K. Archived from the original on 9 June 2004. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  3. ^ Linebaugh 2003, p. 147.