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'Stop thief! Stop thief!' There is a magic in the sound. вЂ вЂњStop thief! Stop thief!вЂќ The cry is taken up by a hundred voicesвЂ™ When I touched her watch I was close to her, but when I cried out I stopped as it were short, and the crowd bearing her forward a little, she made a noise too, but it was at some distance from me, so that she did not in the least suspect me but when she cried out 'A pickpocket,' somebody cried, 'Ay, and here has been another! this gentlewoman has been attempted too.'ДЄt that very instance, a little farther in the crowd, and very luckily too, they cried out 'A pickpocket,' again, and really seized a young fellow in the very act. I had no sooner said so, but the other gentlewoman cried out 'A pickpocket' too, for somebody, she said, had tried to pull her watch away.

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I had full hold of her watch, but giving a great jostle, as if somebody had thrust me against her, and in the juncture giving the watch a fair pull, I found it would not come, so I let it go that moment, and cried out as if I had been killed, that somebody had trod upon my foot, and that there were certainly pickpockets there, for somebody or other had given a pull at my watch for you are to observe that on these adventures we always went very well dressed, and I had very good clothes on, and a gold watch by my side, as like a lady as other fold. It happened in a crowd, at a meeting-house, where I was in very great danger of being taken. The next thing of moment was an attempt at a gentlewoman's good watch. The public seemed highly pleased with the nature of the punishment, and gave liberally to the vindicators of injured manhood.']ДЄ crowd hunts down a pickpocket in Moll Flanders

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The manual musician sounded the tune of 'You round-headed cuckolds, come dig, come dig!' and nearly seventy coalheavers, carmen, and porters, adorned with large horns fastened to their heads, followed. a pedestrian procession, headed by a drum, and accompanied by a chemise, displayed for a banner. Exasperated at this virago, the neighbours made a 'riding,' i.e. Malcolm ('Manners of London') quotes from the 'Protestant Mercury,' that a porter's lady, who resided near Strand Lane, beat her husband with so much violence and perseverance, that the poor man was compelled to leap out of the window to escape her fury. Perhaps the riding mentioned by Pepys was a punishment somewhat similar. 'It was an ancient custom in Berkshire, when a man had beaten his wife, for the neighbours to parade in front of his house, for the purpose of serenading him with kettles, and horns and hand-bells, and every species of 'rough music,' by which name the ceremony was designated. [Lord Baybrooke's note from 1893 edition of the Diary sheds interesting light on what the 'riding' might have been: Here I eat a bit, and then in the afternoon took boat and down to Greenwich, where I find the stairs full of people, there being a great riding there to-day for a man, the constable of the town, whose wife beat him.

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