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THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT, &c.
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BY Virtue of the King's commission of the peace, oyer and terminer and general 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 Robert Kite
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, Knt.
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Honourable James Hewitt
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, Esq. one of the
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James Eyre
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, and others his Majesty's justices of the peace, oyer and terminer and goal-delivery of Newgate, holden for the said city and county of Middlesex on
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Wednesday the 9th
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Saturday the 12th of September
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, in the seventh year of his present Majesty's reign, Elizabeth the wife of
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James Brownrigg
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was capitally convicted, and received sentence of death, for the wilful murder of
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As the attention of the public has been considerably raised by the various reports which have been propagated respecting this unhappy woman, I thought it necessary to give a fuller extract from the charges exhibited against her, and for which she was tried and found guilty, than is usual in these cases.
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The first charge was on the coroner's inquest, whereby
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31st of July last
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did make an assault. And that the said Elizabeth to strip herself did force and compel; and that the said Elizabeth the hands of the said Mary across with one end of a certain cord did then and there bind, and her the said Mary with the other end
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