appeared to the new Relation to be a Burthen upon the Family, and so it seems he thought of an Expedient to get rid of her. She was at that Time, she says, about 14 Years of Age, and she had not been long acquainted with her new Relation before he proposed to her a Match. The poor Girl says, she scarce knew what he meant by talking to her of a Husband, but found there was a Resolution to marry her off, and she was obliged to submit to it. So before she was arrived to the Age of fourteen Years, she was dispatched with her Man to be married at the Fleet , where the Job had been done for her Grandmother before; and the Ceremony was performed, she says, in her Presence, tho' she scarce knew what was intended, or the Nature of the Contract she was obliged to engage in.

This Husband lived with her, she says, about 16 Months only, and died, leaving no Issue, as Providence pleased to order it. Then, she says, she went into Service , and when out of Place went to Day Work , wherever she could get Employment, and was a Widow about four Years. She then met with a Man who took a Fancy to her, and was married a second Time at the aforesaid Place. Her second Husband was a labouring Man, who maintained her pretty well by his Labour, and she, to help out a Maintenance, worked at her Needle, when she could get any Thing to do. She says they lived pretty comfortable together, and by him she had two Children; which Providence was pleased to take to himself while they were very young. Her second Husband died about three or four Years, and again she became a Widow . Since the Death of her last Husband she returned again to Day Work, and the Use of her Needle when she could get any Body to employ her, and, if she speaks Truth, got an honest, tho' mean Livelihood, by her own Industry, as long as she could find Encouragement. She says, being in very low Circumstances, work not being offered to her, as usual, in her former Method of Life, she was advised to go, and hire herself out to gathering of Beans and Peas , during the last Summer Season. She did so, she says about the Neighbourhood of Bethnal-Green , Hackney , &c. and that for 4 or 5 Months last past, before the Crime was committed for which she was convicted, she was employed at a House in Bethnal - Green , to Needle-Work , where she gave such Satisfaction, and behaved so well, as to gain the Favour of those she