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July 1762

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Middlesex To wit


The Information of Mr. Richd Rooker< no role >
of Ealing in Middlesex Gent : taken before
me this 8th. day of July 1762

Who being upon Oath says that he knows Sarah Metyard< no role > This name instance is in set 37100. and Sarah
Morgan Metyard
< no role > her Daughter says that about three Years agoe
he lodged with the said Sarah Metyard< no role > This name instance is in set 37100. at her House in Bruton
Street at which time the said Metyard had two apprentices whom
She Starved and used in a very Cruel manner as the Daughter
Informed him, and that She also used the Daughter herself very ill
says that upon his quitting the said Lodgings he took the Daughter
out of Compassion as a Servant in which Capacity She has
continued ever since, says that during this Time the Mother has
very often come to his House both in Town and County and
Treated this Informant and her Daughter with very apprentices
Language endeavouring to get her Daughter out of his Service
says that in the Daughters answer to the Mother he has
freequently [..] heard her Threaten her with the word Gullyhole
Chick-Lane Ghost Etc from which he suspected that some bad Crime
had been Committed, and one day insisting on the Young woman's
telling him the Truth, She confessed that her said Mother
had Cruelly used and Starved two of her apprentice to Death vizt.
Ann< no role > This name instance is in set 3707. and Mary Nailor< no role > This name instance is in set 3708. and that she Cut the Body of the former
in Pieces and carried it to the Gulley hole in Chick-Lane all [..]
one hand which She Burnt for fear of a discovery it having
a Stump Fringer, and that she kept the Body in a Box inter
House upwards of two Months before she carried it to the Gully
Hole as aforesaid

Sworn before me this
8th. day of July 1762}

Richd Hooker< no role >




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