107. + Ann Hedley proceedingsdefend , of St. Mary, Whitechapel , was indicted for assaulting Mary Cliff proceedingsvictim , in a certain alley, or open place, near the King's highway, putting her in fear, and taking from her a pair of stays, value 6 s. a cambrick cap, value 6 d. a cambrick handkerchief, value 12 d. and an apron, value 6 d. the goods of Mary Cliff < no role > , Nov. 12 .

Mary Cliff < no role > . I am almost sixteen years of age; I live with Mr. Lud, a bricklayer, by Oxford Market; the Prisoner is a chairwoman's daughter just by, [she is about seventeen years old] I went to see her, and she said, Polly, will you go with me to see my cousins; there are three young misses, and they want three young girls to wait upon them; and you shall ride in a coach every day, and have every thing you want? So Betty Brotherton and I went with her. She took us into Rag-fair. I asked where her cousins lived. She said, they are gone to h - ll, to cry brooms. She took me up an alley, and said, D - n you, you b - h, pull your stays off. I won't want while there's any thing to make money of. And because they did not come off easily, she broke the lace. She said, if I cried out, she would run her fist down my throat. And she sold my stays for three shillings and six-pence - I had not a farthing of the money. The other girl [Brotherton] had five shillings of what she sold her things for. The Prisoner took me to a two-penny lodging in Church-alley by Ragfair; we had bread and butter and strong beer for supper, and I staid with her all night, and sat upon the bed crying, and she said, D - n you, you sniveling b - h, come to bed. The next day we went to Oxford Market, and I was afraid of going home for fear of being beat. She wanted us to go to Mary-le-bon bason, and said, if she had got us there, we should not have told who hurt us. - She sold the stays and things in Rag-fair, and she would not let us go into the shop. She said, D - n you, stay out - We were afraid to cry out, that she had robbed us - I never went out with her. before. We met Mr. Ankers as we were going home; and when she saw him, she said, G - d d - n you, we are all caught. I said, Mr. Ankers what shall I do. And he said, I should go to Mrs. Brotherton's, and she should beg for me.

Prisoner. We had tea and bread and butter for breakfast, and she came to me in the morning when I was in bed, and said she would go to the Buoy in the Nore to see her brother. Betty Brotherton < no role > said she was sick, and must pull her stays off. I said I would not pull mine off, but she pulled hers off, and sold them, and we had wine and strong beer at supper.

Cliff. I had no wine, nor Betty Brotherton < no role > neither.

Prisoner. We had two bottles of wine. What made you sick?

Cliff. I was not sick at all. The Prisoner said to Betty Brotherton < no role > , D - n you, if you don't sell your ear-rings, I will get a Constable, and send you home to your mother, and have you well slogged.

Elizabeth Brotherton < no role > . I am coming into my 13th year; Cliff and I were going out, and the Prisoner would have us go with her to her cousins, who, she said, kept their coach: and she said, D - n you, it does not signify talking, for you shall go. When she went she could not find her cousins. I asked her where they were. She said, Oh d - n them, they are gone to h - ll to sell brooms. She took me up a passage, and said, I must strip; and before I could get my stays off, she tore them open. - I was not sick then, I was sick afterwards at a house she carried me to. Then she took my gold bobs - she had the money for them: she said, she had sold my stays for a shilling. What, in the name of G - d, said I, did you sell my stays? She said, I must have more than your stays; I must have your ear-rings. She hit me a blow on the stomach, and said, she would send me to h - ll: and she said, If you don't let me have them, I'll get a porter, and send you where you shall never be heard of - I had no wine; the Prisoner had wine, and a rabbit, a French cook frigafeed it - I did not taste it, I had nothing but a bit of bread and butter. I sat crying, and she called me, Snivelling b - h. There was a long bottle brought with white wine, and another with red; she sat by herself, and we sat behind the door.

Q. Did not she tell you, if you sold your things, she would acquaint your mother with it?

Brotherton. No, indeed; she was going to kill us once, and there came a hog along, she thought it was a man coming, and she run away.

Q. Had not you the money the things were sold for?

Brotherton. She gave me a crown, and said, here d - n you, take this, and put it into your pocket, and don't look like a fool; said I, what shall I do for my stays? She took 3 s. from me again, then I had a groat left and she took that away from me at last - we took the prisoner the next day but one at her mother's.

Mr. Ankers. I live in the house with Elizabeth Brotherton < no role > (the friends of the two girls had been under some uneasiness about them.) Just by Great Marlborough-street there did I meet these three creatures draggled in mud. and in a miserable condition; the prisoner made off, and said, by G - d the fault shall not all lye upon me, they shall have part as well as myself; she had her cloaths on as she had when she went out, but the others were stripped - they had their caps on.

Prisoner. That man knows nothing of it, there's nobody knows any thing of it but the two girls and I.

A person who happened accidentally to be in court, said he saw the two girls [Cliff and Brotherton] without Aldgate as drunk as they could be, rolling and tumbling in the channel. Acquitted .

+ Ann Hedley < no role > was also indicted for robbing Elizabeth Brotherton proceedingsvictim , of a pair of stays, value 2 s. an apron, value 18 d. and a pair of gold ear-rings, value 5 s. November 12 . Acquitted .