The Complaint of Anne Satehwell< no role > and Hannah
Granger< no role > , Against Tho: Granger< no role > , a Prisoner in
Clerkenwell New Prison , Humbly Offered to
his Majestys) Justices of the Peace at their Sessions
at Hick's Hall, in the County of Middlesex

May it please your Worships,

The said Thomas Granger< no role > , about Two
years agor, went away from his Wife Hannah Granger< no role > (one of your
Complainants) and Four Children, whom she, with Great Pains and
Industry, and the Kind Assistance of your Other Complaint: Anne
Satchwell< no role > , made a Shift to maintain, without any the least Help or
Assistance from her Said Husband. After about Twenty Weeks
Absence, the Said Tho: Granger< no role > returnd and instead of expressing Some
Grateful Sense of yor. said Complaints. Hannah< no role > her Care and Industry
Abvsd her in a very extraordinary manner. In particular on the
17th: of Last Instant Agust being at the House of One Mr Whitaker, at
the Signe of the Bull in Dunning's Ally without Bishopsgate at his
taking Leave of them pretty late at Night he told those present, that the
Next News they heard of him, would be from Newgate , for he was resolv'd
to go home and Murver the said Hannah< no role > his Wife , And on Tuesday
Morning (the 18th: of Said Instant Augt ) between the Hours of One and
Two) he came Home, and without any the least Provocation given him
he fell violently open your said Complaint. Hannah< no role > , and Beat her till
she was Black & Blue upon her Arms, Shoulders, & elsewhere; and
then went to the Bedside, whore your Other Complainant Anne
Satchwell< no role > lay (who is upwards of Sixty years old) and with many Oaths
& Curses (such as D-mn you Old B-tch) Beat her likewise, and
threatened to murther them both, yea, adved, that he should not be at
ease at Work in his Loom , till he had done it, and this too, when he
has appeard to be free from any Extraordinary Influence of Liquor:
which affords your Complaints. the Deeper and more Melancholy Appre:
hensions. Your Complaints, have more to ofter, but being unwilling to
be troublesom to your Worships, Do content themselves at this time to ornis
the Same: and Humbly submit the premisses to your Worships Con-
-sideration.