Eliza Canning from the Life mb-code 42-63421181 or Tirie marble'

or Tirie marble'

St Clement Danes Church

entertaining kings

Zoological studies of two lizards: figure 1

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I with a Latin inscription below

Eliza Canning from the Life mb-code 42-63421181 or Tirie marble''A True Draught of Eliza Canning. Eliza Canning from the Life', c1753. In 1753, a young woman called Elizabeth Canning claimed to have been kidnapped and held against her will at a house in Enfield. She also said that her kidnappers tried to force her to become a prostitute. She supposedly escaped from the house, and on her evidence people were arrested, tried and convicted. Later, doubts began to be expressed about her story. The prisoners were