413, 414, 415. HENRY QUIRFORTH proceedingsdefend , JOHN DENNISON proceedingsdefend , and JANE DENNISON proceedingsdefend were indicted (with one MARY McKENNELLER < no role > not in custody) for that they did conspire to send into foreign countries one Elizabeth Brickleband proceedingsvictim , June the 7th .

SARAH BRICKLEBAND < no role > sworn.

I am the mother of Elizabeth Brickleband < no role > ,

she was seventeen years of age; I have the register of her birth: on the 7th of June in the morning as we were going to breakfast, somebody knocked at the door; I desired a little boy to go the door; there was a tall woman in a black crape gown, her name was Mary McKenneller < no role > , she said she wanted my daughter; she went to the door, and said she did not know her; I went to the window and saw McKenneller and she at the door; she asked her to go a little way with her, and my daughter never came back again; on the Monday following I saw McKenneller go by the door; I went after her and asked her what she had done with my child; she said she went to an office, and she took me to Dennison's; I believe it was then between nine and ten in the morning; McKenneller said, here is Betsey's mother come to enquire about her; Mrs. Dennison bid me walk in and walk up stairs, and said my daughter would do very well; I walked up stairs and then she denied ever seeing my child, though at first she said she was a fine girl and would do very well; they kept me till ten or eleven at night, and would not give me any satisfaction; to be sure I used a little rudeness and threatened to break their windows and doors if they did not let me see whether my daughter was in their house: one John Lewington < no role > came in and said, I need not enquire about my daughter, she was on board the Nancy brigg, and would do very well, and said, why did not you satisfy her before? the Dennisons were both present, and desired this man to give me a direction to the clerk, I think they called him; I said I must know the captain's name and the ship's name before I went away; then Mrs. Dennison said I was troublesome, and bid me go about my business; I said I should be more troublesome, that if I had not my daughter I should go to the Lord Mayor; she said don't go to the Lord Mayor, you shall have your daughter again in three months; I will send this fine creature in her room (that was a girl she had there) if I would pay her passage; I got the name of the captain and the owner, and then I wanted to go, and Dennison's son began to push me about; I got out and the next day went to Quirforth; Dennison gave me a direction to him: they told me the ship was at Gravesend, I might go and have her back if I would pay her passage; I went to Gravesend and the ship was gone; I came back and went to Quirforth, and he said the ship failed on Thursday, and that he entered her; I desired to see her name, and he shewed me a list with Elizabeth Brickleband < no role > at the bottom of it; the rest were entered for four years, but she was entered twenty-one free; I suppose to be sold for life: I came home and went to the Lord Mayor, and got a warrant to take the people up; they were taken and put in gaol on Friday, and Quirforth came to me on Saturday and a man with him; he asked me how I did, I said I did not know him; he said he was the clerk that entered my daughter; I said I don't want to see you; have you brought me any news of my daughter? he said, I could not expect that; he was come in behalf of the two people I had put in prison the day before, and said, if I persisted in it I should hang them all; I said, if the law would hang them I could not help it; he said, you are a good sort of a woman, you don't know what you have done; if you won't go on with it, you shall have 500 l. he said, he would bring it me on Monday, and I should have my daughter in four years; I said, do you think I will sell my child's blood; no, I will not do that; I sent for Mr. Shadow, a friend of mine, and left him with him.

GEORGE SHADOW < no role > sworn.

I know Mrs. Brickleband, she has lived opposite me almost seven years. Quirforth told me the story about her daughter, and said, if she would drop the proceeding before the Lord Mayor, he would enter into an engagement to bring her daughter back; that he knew the captain and mate of the ship, and

was the only person that could bring her back again.

SARAH GITTIM < no role > sworn.

I met with the prosecutrix; she seemed in a deal of trouble, and asked me to go with her to Dennison's office to know what time they set the child down; I went with her; there were two men in the house, and another man and the son came in; the son said to Mrs. Brickleband, you old

"Cadetameran,

"what do you do here again about

"your whore of a daughter? I debauched her

"at school; and I took her on board the

"ship, and there I debauched her again, and

"gave her a flogging." I went with her before the Lord Mayor, and there the father and mother were; the father denied seeing her, but the mother owned she saw her; Quirforth came before the Lord Mayor the second time; they were examined and produced a roll, and said, he was both captain and agent of the ship; the boy said before the Lord Mayor that he took her on board the ship.

Mr. MARTHEW sworn.

Dennison and his wife keep a lock-up house in the court where I live: I have seen Quirforth continually at Dennison's house; hearing they were in prisoner I was glad of an opportunity of appearing against them, and went before the Lord Mayor; Quirforth came there to justify the conduct of the Dennisons, and to give bail for them; the Lord Mayor seemed to think him a confederate; he produced a list of about an hundred persons he had indentured; the Lord Mayor asked him of the character in which he acted in this business; he first called himself a clerk, then he called himself an agent; the Lord Mayor asked him how he was to be paid; he said he was to have 9 l. 7 s. 6 d. the Lord Mayor said it was a fine thing for a man to have near an hundred servants for 9 l. 7 s. 6 d. there was some dispute about receiving the premium for entering this girl; she was entered upon his list, that was all the indenturing: I saw Quirforth make proposals about getting her back again; and the Lord Mayor fixed the first of January for the time of bringing her back.

JOHN DENNISON < no role > 's DEFENCE.

I am quite innocent; I know nothing of it.

JANE DENNISON < no role > 's DEFENCE.

I never was in prison before my husband was in prison and before the Lord Mayor; they said they had nothing to alledge against him, and he was discharged.

The Dennisons called

" PETER MOSES < no role > and HENRY FILLINGHAM < no role > ,

"who deposed, that they were

"drinking together at the King's-arms in

"Rosemary-lane, and that the prosecutrix's

"daughter came in and said, she was just come

"from on board a ship at Blackwall, and

"was waiting for a young man to call for

"her that she was going to America with;

"that Moses said to her, Mary, you will

"repent of it before you get to the Downs;

"that she said she did not care, she would

"go to the farthest part of the world with

"him; that she staid about two hours and

"began to grow uneasy at his not coming;

"that they then proposed to go a little way

"with her, and went as far as Ratcliff-highway,

"and saw her into her mother's house."

The jury to the prosecutrix. What was the first day that you went to Dennison's? - The first Monday after Whitsuntide; she was gone the Wednesday before; I went to Dennison's on the Monday, and to the best of my knowledge I went to Gravesend the very day after, and the ship was gone.

D id your daughter ever elope from you? - Never, nor never kept bad company. I never saw her after.

When were these people taken before my Lord Mayor? - The Friday after.

ALL THREE GUILTY .

Tried by the Second London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.

QUIRFORTH to be imprisoned a month and find security for his good behaviour one year .

The other two to be imprisoned three months and find security for their good behaviour two years .