She says, that three or four Days before she did this fatal Deed, she left the Place, where she had been handsomely employed for four or five Months before at her Needle. And having got into bad Company, where Debauchery of any Kind was scarce absent, in the Neighbourhood of Rag-fair , and Places adjacent, she became as bad as the worst, and got very much in drink on the Monday Night, besides otherwise using Revelling, and Debauchery;and on Tuesday Morning, the 21st of August , was not recovered from the Fumes of that cursed Murderer of Morals, the Liquor called Gin. She was turned out of the Quarters, in the Morning, where she had been all Night, and was obliged to wander, where she knew not, and at last she happened upon this poor Child, for the Abuse of whom she suffered Death.

She says, that she scarce knew what she did, but that she took the Child into Hand, she since has had Reason to recollect. To the best of her Knowledge, she says, she had not carried, or led the Child, above five hundred Yards from the Children in the Wood in White-chapel , before she was taken into Custody for robbing it. She says, she had no particular Design, nor thought to carry her away from the Place, but only to take what she could make Money of in Rag-fair , to support her that Day, having not one half-penny left. She owns the taking of the Child's Things from her; and says, as the Laws have appointed such Punishments to such Deeds, she suffers deservedly.

She pretended upon her Trial, that she had found the Things, the common Pretence of the Guilty. And, to ward against the Declaration of the Evidences finding them upon her, she would have persuaded, she had not Sense of whose they were. But, after Conviction, and Sentence passed, she recovered her lost Sense of Things, and owned the Fact, without endeavouring to extenuate or lessen her Guilt.

She behaved very well under Sentence of Death, and applied herself servently in Prayer to God for Forgiveness.

2. Philip Wilson< no role > was about 18 Years of Age, and was born in the Parish of St. Paul's, Shadwell . His Parents gave him no Education; and though he was by Nature of a lively Aspect and Disposition, yet was he totally Ignorant of any Letters. He was bred to no Manner of Business, but lived with his Parents in Idleness, till they died, when he was about 12 or 13 Years of Age. Then having no one to support him, he was taken to work in Rope-walks about Shadwell and Radcliffe , and sailed once to Newcastle .