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<p n="25">THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT, &c.</p>
<p n="26">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 <rs type="placeName" id="OA17670914_geo2"> <rs type="placeName" id="OA17670914_geo3">Justice-Hall</rs>
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in the Old-Bailey</rs>
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, before the <rs type="persName" id="OA17670914_n26-1">Right Honourable Sir Robert Kite</rs>
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, Knt. <rs type="occupation" id="OA17670914_occ2">Lord-Mayor of the city of London</rs>
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, the <rs type="persName" id="OA17670914_n26-2">Honourable James Hewitt</rs>
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, Esq. one of the <rs type="occupation" id="OA17670914_occ3">judges of his Majesty's court of King's-Bench</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17670914_n26-3">James Eyre</rs>
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, Esq. <rs type="occupation" id="OA17670914_occ4">Recorder</rs>
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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 <rs type="date" id="OA17670914_date3">Wednesday the 9th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17670914_date4">Thursday the 10th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17670914_date5">Friday the 11th</rs>
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, and <rs type="date" id="OA17670914_date6">Saturday the 12th of September</rs>
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, in the seventh year of his present Majesty's reign, Elizabeth the wife of <rs type="persName" id="OA17670914_n26-4">James Brownrigg</rs>
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was capitally convicted, and received sentence of death, for the wilful murder of <rs type="persName" id="OA17670914_n26-5">Mary Clifford</rs>
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her <rs type="occupation" id="OA17670914_occ5">apprentice</rs>
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<p n="27">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.</p>
<p n="28">The first charge was on the coroner's inquest, whereby <rs type="persName" id="OA17670914_n28-1">James Brownrigg</rs>
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and Elizabeth his wife were charged, for that they on the <rs type="date" id="OA17670914_date7">31st of July last</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="OA17670914_geo4">St. Dunstan's in the West</rs>
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, in and upon <rs type="persName" id="OA17670914_n28-2">Mary Clifford</rs>
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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</p>
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