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THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, &c.
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BY virtue of the King's commission of the peace, oyer and terminer and goal delivery of Newgate, holden for the city of London and county of Middlesex, at
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in the Old Bailey
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, before the
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Right Honourable Sir Samuel Fludyer
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Honourable Henry Bathurst
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, and others, his Majesty's Justices of oyer and terminer for the said city and county; on
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Wednesday the 14th
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Saturday the 17th of July
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, in the second Year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third,
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Sarah Metyard
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her daughter, were indicted, tried and convicted for wilfully and maliciously murdering
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, by assaulting, beating and bruising her, and starving her to death.
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As the trial is to be published with all convenient expedition, in the whole proceedings on the commission of the peace, &c. my province limits me to an account of the behaviour, &c. of the prisoners from the time they fell under my notice, which was not till five or six days before the sessions, when they were commited to
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and others, whose names will appear as witnesses against them, on the trial. The animosity between this unhappy mother and daughter, ran so high by means of their mutual accusations and reproaches, that it was necessary to confine them apart, in the most distant parts of the prison; the daughter having an apartment on the Press-yard side, with a servant to attend her, while the mother was kept on the opposite side. This latter was not seen by me at chapel
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