Churchill cohabited with a Richard Hunt in London, became a prostitute and picked the pockets of her clients.
[2] Hunt extracted money from wealthy clients by blackmailing them and whenever Churchill was arrested, he ensured her release by bribing officials.
[3] One account stated that she had been to the Clerkenwell Bridewell 28 times and was once sentenced to New Prison for the theft of 104 guineas.
[4] In 1708, she was moving through Drury Lane closely followed by Hunt and his two friends, William Lewis and John Boy.
[4] When the court learned of her lie, it ordered for the sentence to be carried out immediately and she was executed in Tyburn on 17 December 1708 before a large audience whom she asked to pray for her.