Mohawks

Mohawks. The Mohock or Mohawk Club, mentioned in the Spectator by Steele (No. 324) and Budgett (No. 347), was a scandalous club existing in London in 1711-12. 'The avowed design of their institution was mischief.' Gay mentions, in Trivia, that the Mohawks rolled women in hogsheads down Snowhill, and Swift told Stella of a report that eighty of them had been put into prison; while Lady Wentworth, writing to her son Lord Strafford, says, 'I am very much frightened with the fyer, but much more with a gang of devils that call themselves Mohocks.' A royal proclamation was issued against them, March 18, 1712.