Moll King (other)
Moll King may refer to: * Moll King (coffee house proprietor) * Moll King (criminal) Moll King was a 17th-century London criminal. Biography Little is known of King's early life; she was probably a native Londoner and born in the 1670s. In October 1693 she had one of her hands branded after robbing a house in St Giles, Cripplega ...

Moll King (coffee House Proprietor)
Elizabeth Adkins, who was also known as Moll King, Moll Bird, Mary Godson, Mary and Maria Godson (1696–1747), was a prominent figure in London's underworld during the early 18th century. She owned King's Coffeehouse with her husband Tom King and she also allegedly worked in the sex trade and as a pickpocket. Adkins has been connected in historical analysis to a London criminal named Moll King, and court documents suggest Moll King was born at least twenty years before. Biography According to a pamphlet published anonymously in 1747, Adkins was born in 1696 in Vine Street, London. ''The Life and Character of Moll King'' states that Adkins' father was a shoemaker and that her mother sold fish, fruit and greens in the street. It also suggests Adkins became a prostitute before the age of fourteen. Adkins was married to a man named Thomas King, known around the area as ''Smooth'd-Fac'd-Tom'', at fourteen, and was linked several years later to William Murray. When this second rel ...
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