Talk:John Law (economist)/Archives/2017

Fascinating bit in 'Mother Clap's Mollyhouse' by Rictor Norton

I ran across a few pages about John Law's brush and killing of Edward Wilson in 'Mother Clap's Mollyhouse' by Rictor Norton. The brief summary is that John Law discovered that Wilson was acting as Lord Sunderland's gay lover/prostitute, by following Wilson to a house where Wilson entered, a 'young lady' exitted forty-five minutes later, went to Lord Sunderland's, returned to the house, and Wilson walked out. There's conjecture that Law then blackmailed Wilson and Sunderland, covering it up, and that some kind of quarrel or disagreement led to the killing - which at the time was claimed to be a duel, but the courts viewed it as premediated assault and murder.

I have the book out from the library and don't know much about doing stuff for wikipedia, but if someone else is interested, it's there.

86.0.28.58 (talk) 13:56, 6 November 2017 (UTC)