Priss Fotheringham

Early life Born in Scotland around 1615, she later travelled to London and became a prostitute. Fotheringham was reputed to be a “cat-eyed gypsy, pleasing to the eye”. She and "Edward" had a daughter Sarah on 11 November that year. His mother, Anne, ran a brothel in Cow Lane, Finsbury. and gained notoriety through the expanding printing industry in London. References to the Fotheringham's brothel appear in John Garfield's The Wandering Whore (1660), and The Unparalleled Practices of Mrs Fotheringham (1660); Strange and True News from JackaNewberries (1660); the Strange and True Conference between Two Notorious Bawds (1660) and Man in the Moon (1660). On some occasions wine was also poured into her commodity. She performed chucking several times a day. The tavern was nicknamed Priscilla Fotheringham's Chuck Office, and the Half Crown Chuck Office.

As Fotheringham aged, she trained new talent to perform chucking, notably the Dutch prostitute known as 'Mrs Cupid'. Although Mrs Cupid used Rhenish wine during her act, Fotheringham would only use the best Sack wine as it smarted less.

Death Fotheringham died a wealthy woman in around 1668. Her husband had died 5 years earlier in 1663. Both died of advanced syphilis.