WEBVTT - There’s Something About Mary -- But It’s Not Royal Blood 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:06.519 Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:13.880 with iHeartRadio. 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.200 There was something about Mary, but despite her claims, it 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:22.840 wasn't an inheritance, prestigious titles, peerage, or any aristocratic honors. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.880 Mary Carlton was born in Canterbury, England, in sixteen forty two, 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.000 probably in January of that year, although some reports suggest 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.320 she may have been a virgo. She spent a lifetime 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:38.040 using false identities to conmen into marrying her and then 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.559 defrauding them as a way to not just boost her 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:45.080 bank account but also often social status as well. One 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.680 con that we'll talk about is her renowned German princess persona. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:54.400 But ultimately, though, it wasn't this fabulous's fraud, deception or 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.800 her way of putting one over on you that caught 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.400 up with her. It was the bigamy. It'll make sense, 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.000 trust me. Welcome to Criminalia. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:07.240 I'm Marian Tremarky and I'm Holly Frye. Mary Carlton became 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.680 famous for being famous when the paparazzi and media of 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:14.479 her day caught wind of a bigamy scandal involving her. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.400 Why would they care about a young woman from an 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:22.280 unknown family in southeastern England. Mary was self styling as 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.920 a mysterious German royal at the time, and while we 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:29.119 do know that she was not of royal blood, her 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.440 real identity has actually been debated over the decades. Modern 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.800 historians agree that she was born as Mary Motors. Her father, 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:42.000 a Canterbury musician, was either a chorister or a fiddler. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.200 But we don't really meet up with Mary on the 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.840 historical record until she is legally accused of a crime 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.040 noe not fraud. Even though she did a lot of 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.400 that bigamy divorce we need to note in this time 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.920 in England was not only scandalous, it was unheard of. 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.120 Let's go to the beginning to Mary and her first husband, 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.840 Thomas Deadman. Mary and Thomas lived in Canterbury, where he 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:11.080 worked as a journeyman shoemaker, and being a journeyman really 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.960 just meant he was an apprentice working for a master cobbler. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.679 Some sources report she and Thomas had two children, both 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.799 of whom died in infancy or perhaps maybe in childbirth. 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.880 Years into their marriage, Mary left Thomas and moved to Dover, 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.360 which is about twenty miles outside of Canterbury. Mary was 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:33.080 included in the Newgate Calendar, which is a biographical book 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.000 of criminals that was published in the eighteenth century, and 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.680 in it detailed that she had grown unhappy in her 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.880 first marriage because her husband wasn't wealthy and couldn't quote 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:47.919 support her in the splendor she always aimed at. In Dover, 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.640 she married a second time to a man named Thomas Day, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.079 who was a surgeon. But when she left her first marriage, 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.640 Mary she just laughed. It's not like she could have 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.600 filed for divorce, but legally she and Thomas Deadman were 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.919 still married when she married Thomas Day, according to seventeenth 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:09.079 century English law, one marriage at a time, Please and 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.640 arrest warrant was issued for her for bigamy. Mary was 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.680 tried in Maidstone, but because her first husband couldn't afford 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.959 to travel the thirty or so miles to the trial 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.200 and testify against her, the case was dismissed. 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:27.680 After her trial, Mary traveled to Cologne solo, and while 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.400 in Germany, she told a few lies about herself, her wealth, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.640 and her personal history, so basically she established what would 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.960 become her usual fraudulent scripts. She had a brief affair 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:44.000 with a local nobleman who showered her with expensive gifts 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.480 and desperately wanted to marry her. It was when he 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.920 began preparations seriously for a wedding that Mary skipped town. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.800 She skipped country. Actually, she returned to England with all 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.640 of the lavish gifts she had received from him, as 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.520 well as it turned out as much of her landlady's savings. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.840 When Mary returned to London in sixteen sixty three, she 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.680 shook off her two marriages and took on the persona 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:14.400 of a German princess named Maria or Henrietta Maria de Wolwei, 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.000 and her story was that she was a noble woman 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:22.080 forced to flee an unwanted arranged marriage. Specifically, in her 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.839 fictional backstory, she claimed to be the orphaned Princess von 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.880 Wolway from Cologne and claimed her father was Henry von Bolweg, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.960 a lawyer and Lord of Holmestein, just like Maria. Though 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.159 Henry was not real. She really took these personas she 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:42.480 created very seriously. Her Princess Khan was perhaps her most 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.479 sensational and best known work. To breathe some life into 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:51.160 her fictional characters, Mary used corroboration in her scams. She 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.480 would often arrange for someone to send her letters that 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.480 contained updates on friends and family and Cologne, or wherever 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.599 her fake identity had taken her fictional every word, but 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.640 her marks didn't know that. Most often, Mary used letters 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.640 to fool men into thinking her fabricated identities were real identities. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.880 The German Princess Act was not her first royal ruse, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:14.760 but probably her best. 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:20.160 When a new landlady found and read letters from Mary's 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.880 friends in Cologne, she was convinced that Mary really was 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:28.039 a princess. She wanted Mary to meet her nephew and 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:33.279 wouldn't they make a lovely pair. Knowing her landlady was 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.479 reading her correspondence, Mary arranged for a new letter to 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.920 be sent, in which she was informed her brother had 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.839 died and he had left her with everything, including her 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:49.880 forthcoming inheritance from her also deceased father. But there was 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.560 a snag. She could only have the inheritance if she 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.560 married the man from whom she'd fled back in Germany, 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.440 and when her landlady's nephew stepped in to offer help, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.920 some reports suggest that he did offer marriage, Mary didn't 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.919 hesitate to take advantage of the situation. Now, she didn't 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.560 marry her landlady's nephew, at least not that we're aware of, 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.960 but she took the opportunity to fleece him. Yes, so 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.839 we just said Mary often used this kind of method 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.480 to defraud men, but really she would defraud anyone if 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:29.240 she could, women and landlords, maybe even kids. Anybody she 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.200 came in contact with was likely to lose some money. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.080 She sometimes worked with the aid of an accomplice, her maid, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.119 also known at the time as a lady's companion. Mary 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:44.279 was sometimes accused of the classic con charge obtaining money 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:49.159 and property under false pretenses. We know her details of 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.200 her German princess swindle because it was part of her 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.559 court trial and court report, but it can be hard 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.480 to know the extent of her work. More than three 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:02.080 hundred years have passed since her death, and as we've noticed, 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:07.000 history isn't always great with keeping paperwork safe. Many of 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.560 her husbands and other marks were likely too embarrassed to 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.560 reveal that they had been duped and left with empty pockets. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.440 We're going to take a break for a word from 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.560 our sponsor now, and when we return we will talk 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.440 about how Mary's next marriage is the one that made 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:31.240 her famous. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:41.120 Welcome back to Criminalia. Look, we all knew it was coming. 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.360 Marrying Mary got married. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:48.120 Again in April of sixteen sixty three. Mary hit her 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.160 next mark. She employed her royal alias Swindle to captivate 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.200 and marry John Carlton, who was either an eighteen year 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:59.080 old law clerk or perhaps a young surgeon. Records suggest 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.040 as way more likely, though, that he was a clerk 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.680 and she, it was rumored, despite her alleged royal background 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.280 and assumed wealth, was quite a spendthrift with his money. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.600 Carlton became the surname by which she's remembered in history. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.960 And that's because she was arrested using that name, and 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.120 she had a very public trial. She was arrested for 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:27.680 masquerading as a German princess, for marrying John Carlton under 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:32.520 a fraudulent identity, and, as we've said, for bigamy. Some 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.840 sources suggest her fraud was exposed through an anonymous letter 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.439 that was sent to John shortly after the wedding, debunking 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:45.439 her princess story and exposing her other marriages. Mary had 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:49.040 gained notoriety as a princess, a real princess as far 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:53.400 as anyone knew the matter here though, wasn't that fraud? 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.280 To quote her court records, The trial of Mary Motor's 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.319 alias Stedman, styled the German Prince at the Old Bailey 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:06.240 for bigamy fifteen Charles the Second AD sixteen sixty three. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.960 So to be clear on this, bigamy is entering into 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.080 one marriage while the previous one is undissolved, and that 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.880 certainly fits Mary's situation. All right, now that we've got 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.800 that out of the way, let's go to court. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:25.160 While she awaited trial, London's German Princess was the talk 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.360 of the town. You wouldn't be wrong to call Mary's 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.320 trial at the Old Bailey, which was the central criminal 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:36.400 court of England and Wales, a sensational one. Mary defended 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.679 herself against charges brought against her by her new husband 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.000 bigamy and possibly impoture. Depending on the report or transcript 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.720 we read. The whole event happened both in and out 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.040 of the courtroom. Back in this day, if you were literate, 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.600 you were likely getting your news and general information and 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:59.920 gossip from pamphlets. Pamphlets were kind of a forerunner to newspapers. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.520 News wasn't really printed within periodical publications in England. Yet 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.760 at this time. The London Gazette, for instance, claims to 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.959 be England's oldest newspaper. It published its first edition as 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.440 the Oxford Gazette in November of sixteen sixty five, and 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.360 that's after Mary's trial. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:23.080 Both Mary and John published pamphlets to tell their personal 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:28.680 narratives and gained support for their individual side of the story. Several, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:33.640 perhaps dozens of pamphlets were written by them both. Most 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.400 of these pamphlets, to be honest, were for mud slanging, 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:40.240 but as a whole they were ultimately heartbreakingly detailed accounts 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.560 of a marriage gone wrong, focused on he said, She 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.040 said volleys between the pair, the kind of gossip that 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:53.360 sells more pamphlets. Mary detailed the quote incivilities and miseries 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.720 that she endured in marriage that are, according to her quote, 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:01.360 irredeemable by the laws of the Kingdom may against femis covert. 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.959 So a femis covert, if you haven't googled that yet, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.400 is a now obsolete legal term for a married woman. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.120 John replied in his pamphlets by calling her quote this 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:18.480 two legged monster, and the Canterbury German specifically accusing Mary 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.520 of not being a real princess and of not even 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:26.160 being German either. Mary in response claimed that John himself 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.839 had exaggerated his own status and had when they met, 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.640 claimed to be a lord, which he was absolutely not, 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.840 and she stated this bombshell in court that he was 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.880 only trying to end their marriage because he had discovered 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:44.480 she had no money or impending inheritance. There were also 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:49.040 pamphlets published that reported sensationalized details of what went on 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.400 inside the courtroom, on the scene and in the moment, 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.320 and these were distributed right there at the trial. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.400 Throughout the trial, Mary, who as we mentioned, defendant herself, 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:06.200 played the character of a victim, a distressed foreign aristocrat, 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.360 alienated from her home, her finances, and her possessions, and 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:16.439 on trial overseas. As for the prosecution, they bungled their case. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.480 They managed to produce a witness to her first marriage, 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.800 but they failed to deliver the husband, Thomas Steadman. In addition, 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.400 any claims that Mary had already been tried for bigamy, 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:30.160 remember Thomas didn't show in the courtroom in Maidstone, and 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.160 any accounts of her well known spurious and double dealing 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:37.360 adventures were dismissed as hearsay by the judge Ultimately, though, 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.760 this was not a trial about donning fictional personas, marrying 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.960 under false pretenses, or much of anything to do with 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:48.079 personal finance. As we keep saying, these were all about bigamy. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.720 And because neither of her first two husbands, Thomas Stedman 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.080 or Thomas Day, traveled to appear at this trial in London, 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.760 Mary Carlton was acquitted without other husbands, there was no 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.000 bigamy case. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.959 By all accounts, Mary's acquittal only confirmed to the public 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:10.720 that she was a figure of scandalous celebrity. Perhaps in 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.199 an attempt to cash in on her freedom and her 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.760 new fifteen minutes of fame, or maybe just to set 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:23.600 her fictional story straight, Mary wrote an autobiographical work, which 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.680 was of course not a true story of her life 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.080 in any way at all. It was called The Case 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.840 of Madam Mary Carlton, and in it she detailed an 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.600 account of her life and the events that she claimed 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.679 to have lived through. It was kind of an expanded 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.760 version of a previous writing she had published that was 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.400 a work called An Historical Narrative of the German Princess. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.000 She promised her audience the book would set the record 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:54.200 straight about her quote, birth, education and fortunes. What her 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:58.599 audience got was part romance narrative of her lovers and husbands, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:03.520 and part exposition of her husband, John Carlton and his family. 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.280 That latter part about the Carlton family is interesting, and 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:12.000 it's interesting because Mary accuses his family of tricking her 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:16.479 into marriage in order to secure her wealth, or more accurately, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.480 the wealth they thought she had, and then prosecuting her 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.720 under false pretenses. In addition to personal details, Mary also 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.960 included details of her trial in this book in her 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.160 own words, as she had testified in court, quote, if 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.720 any be deceived, I am my lord. If that they 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.120 could have been ensured that I had been the person 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.720 as to a state that they imagined me to be, 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.000 your Lordship should not have been troubled. They would have 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.000 been contented to have practiced concealment in case I had 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.600 had more than one husband, instead of this defamation that 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.720 I am loaded with my lord, my crime is that 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.040 I have not an estate, or at least such a 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.360 one they imagined it to be. She also wrote of 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.800 her time growing up in a noble family in Germany. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.520 This telling of her pretend background is also interesting because she, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.440 like any good con artist, got her backstory out there 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.600 ahead of those who might try to discredit her, especially 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:16.400 that princess part and the many husband's part two. Probably. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.880 She also writes about the moments leading up to being 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.120 charged with bigamy and describes the moment of her acquittal. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.920 There's an interesting common theme in the story. She tells. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.640 It's a question actually that emerges in her writing, and 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:35.560 that question is what's so bad about pretending you're a princess? 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.760 To quote her from the case of Madame Mary Carlton quote, 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.359 what harm have I done in pretending to great titles? 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.760 When it came to the taking money under false pretenses 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.800 part Mary actually had a few things to say about 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.680 that too. She stated that as a woman under English law, 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.720 she was deprived of her right to secure quote The 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:01.320 Ways to a Better Fortune. Women were essentially second class 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.400 citizens in England in Mary's lifetime. At birth, they became 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.800 subject to their fathers and then later to their husbands. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:14.600 They had limited opportunities and were mostly focused on their households. Basically, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.240 she argued that she wouldn't and couldn't be able to 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.960 live her best life until such unjust laws against women 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:25.720 were changed. Despite her arrests for bigamy. Mary continued to 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:31.120 improve her financial and social situations through marriage. Bigamy be damned. 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.880 So we're going to take a break forward from our 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.440 sponsor right now. When we return, we'll talk about Mary's 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.840 post trial fifteen Minutes of Fame. 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.160 Welcome back to Criminalia. The final years of Mary's life 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:03.160 are interesting, with her doing things that range from play 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:07.840 acting and engaging in additional marriages to imprisonment and execution. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.160 But let's start with the happier times. Mary on stage. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.280 As we know, during her fifteen Minutes of Fame, Mary 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.040 published The Case of Madam Mary Carlton, but she also 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.880 took to the stage after her trial concluded, starring as 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:27.040 herself in a play in London. Some reports suggest she 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.119 performed at what would become the legendary Duke's Theater, but 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.280 we're actually not so sure the dates match up on that. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.879 The German Princess was written by John Holden in sixteen 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.040 sixty four, but the original Dukes known as the Dorset 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.080 Gardens Theater, didn't open its doors until sixteen seventy one. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.200 But regardless of which playhouse it was staged in, Holden 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.720 wrote a dramatization of real life fraud based on Mary's 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.639 adventurous life, and she performed it. We have a little 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:59.359 taste from the epilogue she delivered as an example quote, 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.520 the world's a cheat, and we that move in it 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.080 in our degrees, do exercise our wit and better 'tis 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.920 to get a glorious name. However, got than live by 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:09.639 common fame. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:15.920 It was a box office success. English diarist Samuel Peeps 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.560 was said to have been taken in by Mary and 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.879 claimed that he had seen the play several times. Of 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.399 the work, he wrote that he quote saw the German 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.760 princess acted by the woman herself. The whole play is 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.640 very simple, unless here and there a witty sprinkler or two. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.760 She grew a bit of a loyal local following, and 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.720 many reports suggest she married one of her admirers, which 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.600 would bring her to husband number four. Mary is Mary, 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.399 though so she left him and took all his money. 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:52.840 To quote Mary's fake autobiographical character on stage, You think 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.720 me a bold cheat, but which of you are not? 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:02.679 When the plays run ended a newscam. This time she 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.679 brought in an accomplice who pretended to be her husband. 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.240 She would bring a suitor home, only to be discovered 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:13.919 with him by her jealous spouse, remember thanks spouse. Fearing 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:18.880 blackmail or scandal, these would be suitors. Her marks basically 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.639 paid whatever she asked so they could get out of 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.320 there without any undue attention. 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.080 As the years went by, Mary also began other non 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:32.280 aristocratic and non marital frauds, including mostly running small cons 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:36.480 on local merchants to keep cash flowing. Years after her 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:42.800 high profile bigamy trial, Mary also began stealing, specifically stealing 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:47.439 silver tankards from taverns and then reselling them. When she 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.239 was caught taking one in the Covent Garden district, she 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:55.240 was arrested. Mary was charged, convicted of robbery, and transported 0:19:55.280 --> 0:20:01.679 to Jamaica for her punishment. Jamaica, you may be wondering, Yes, Jamaica. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:06.520 England had recently gained claim of Jamaica from Spain in 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:10.200 sixteen seventy through the Treaty of Madrid, and had taken 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:14.040 to sending indentured servants and prisoners to the island to 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.879 serve out their punishments. And as far as Mary's story goes, 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:22.119 in sixteen seventy two, she either sneaked or swindled her 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.359 way aboard a ship and returned to London, where she 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.760 again began what seems to have been one of her 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:32.520 favorite cons pretending to be a rich heiress. Some reports 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:36.719 suggest she married again to an apothecary at Westminster. That 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.880 would have been her fifth marriage, at least as far 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.639 as we know. Do we have to say it all 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:47.440 righty we will? Mary took his money and she left. 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.120 While living in a boarding house in London, Mary, through 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:57.159 simple bad luck, was recognized in the building by a 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:58.720 man who worked as a guard in one of the 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.040 prisons in which she had once spent a little time 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.399 for one of her various crimes. Technically escaped from a 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:08.240 penal colony, Mary was on the lamb. It wasn't long 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:10.720 after she was spotted that she was arrested, and at 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:14.560 this time things were much more serious. She was sentenced 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.200 to death. Mary pled the belly, which is a turn 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.639 of phrase meaning she told the court she was pregnant. 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:25.040 Pregnancy changed the picture because pregnant women's execution sentences weren't 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.560 carried out until their babies were born. But her lie 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:32.200 was exposed after midwives examined her. Mary was not pregnant. 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:36.800 She was convicted on January sixteenth, sixteen seventy three and 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:41.000 sentenced to death. On January twenty second. Mary was hanged 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:45.199 at a now infamous execution spot, the Tyburn Tree, which 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.720 actually wasn't a tree at all, but rather than name 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:50.160 for a three legged gallows at the Tower of Tyburn, 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:54.080 a scaffold capable of publicly hanging twenty four people at once, 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:59.440 twenty four people at once. Mary, who had just turned 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.040 thirty one years old when she died, is buried at 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:05.520 Saint Martin's Churchyard in London, and there's no word if 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:15.840 any of her husband's plural traveled to her execution. I 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:19.520 hope that you called today's scam sauce sprinkle. 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:23.639 That's my favorite I did. I called it the witty 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:27.520 sprinkle because that's a great name for. 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:29.720 A das ergic. And as soon as I saw that 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:31.679 we're pop up in Whenever Quits, I was like, Oh, no, 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:33.480 that was Samuel, wasn't it who we were quoting? 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:37.879 Yes, thanks Samuel. Peak that I was trying to think 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:42.040 for Mary about a drink that suited her story and 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:44.159 would be a little bit of a fun place to 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:47.639 land on since her story ends in tragedy, Even though 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:50.400 to her marks there was probably a lot of tragedy 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:53.920 Before them, I kept thinking about her many marriages and 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:56.119 the kinds of drinks you would have at a wedding, 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:58.520 even though I think probably she wasn't having big weddings. 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.960 I wanted a toe staying celebration drink, but I also 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:05.240 wanted one that's strong enough that it will knock you 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:08.040 on your keyster and make you unable to travel twenty 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:13.360 miles to testify. So this is the Witty Sprinkle, and 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:16.280 this is a drink that you're making for two. It's 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.120 actually not as heavy hitting as it might sound initially 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:23.560 because you're splitting it. So it is two ounces of 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:28.360 reposato tequila, one ounce of a raspberry liqueur like shambour, 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:33.960 one ounce of lime juice, and then an optional splash 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:37.640 of simple or vanilla syrup. You have the liqueur, which 0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:40.600 is sweet, but because of how this plays out to me, 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:44.439 it felt a little too tart and crisp without it. 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:47.119 But if you like a crisp drink, you could skip 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:50.600 that syrup. You're gonna shake this, you're gonna strain it 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:53.600 into two chilled coups, and then you're gonna top it 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:57.040 with prosecco, so you get like a champagne cocktail, but 0:23:57.080 --> 0:23:59.840 it's a prosecco cocktail and it has tequila in it, 0:23:59.880 --> 0:24:03.960 so kaboo. It's very pretty because of the raspberry liquur. 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:07.520 Its is beautiful pink color. It feels like a wedding 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:10.000 drink that you would have, except you would have it 0:24:10.040 --> 0:24:15.879 many times over and maybe not feel great in the morning, 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:19.600 depending on how you handle tequila and champagne cocktails, which 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:22.720 you can also use champagne instead of prosecco. Prosecco also 0:24:22.720 --> 0:24:25.560 helps sweeten it a little bit more, which is why 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:27.880 I went with that. This is one of those drinks 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:30.399 I personally have to be careful with because it is 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:36.119 exactly the ingredients that make me way too drunk. Tequila 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:40.080 and I have made friends, but we're not like besties. 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:43.679 And champagne cocktails I love, but I find that they 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:46.840 will hit me harder than one would anticipate. As a combo, 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:52.560 this is borderline deadly. If you want to do the 0:24:52.600 --> 0:24:55.440 mocktail version of it, you are going to sub out 0:24:55.480 --> 0:25:00.840 that reposado tequila for and agave juice. I would recommend 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:02.879 cutting it with a little bit of water because I 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:05.920 find it to be too sweet on its own. And 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:10.400 then you're also gonna add raspberry syrup. I prefer at 0:25:10.440 --> 0:25:13.400 this point you already have a juice involved. Cut back 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:15.920 the raspberry syrup to like three quarters of an ounce 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:18.520 instead of a full ounce. Keep your one ounce of 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:21.160 lime juice. You don't have to bother with any additional 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:24.040 syrup at that point, and then top it once you've 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:26.800 shaken it and strained it into pre chilled coups with 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:29.600 a little light ginger ale and you're you're ready. And 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:33.000 that's actually a very yummy drink. That's one of those 0:25:33.040 --> 0:25:36.199 mocktails that I would want to make the base of 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:39.240 it in batches and just have the ginger ale ready 0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:41.720