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<p n="282"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo145">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n282-1">Richd Rooker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo146">Ealing</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo147">Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ47">Gent</rs>
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: taken before<lb></lb>
me this 8th. day of July 1762</p>
<p n="283">Who being upon Oath says that he knows <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n283-1">Sarah Metyard</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n283-2">Sarah<lb></lb>
Morgan Metyard</rs>
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her Daughter says that about three Years agoe<lb></lb>
he lodged with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n283-3">Sarah Metyard</rs>
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at her House in Bruton<lb></lb>
Street at which time the said Metyard had two apprentices whom<lb></lb>
She Starved and used in a very Cruel manner as the Daughter<lb></lb>
Informed him, and that She also used the Daughter herself very ill<lb></lb>
says that upon his quitting the said Lodgings he took the Daughter<lb></lb>
out of Compassion as a Servant in which Capacity She has<lb></lb>
continued ever since, says that during this Time the Mother has<lb></lb>
very often come to his House both in Town and County and<lb></lb>
Treated this Informant and her Daughter with very apprentices<lb></lb>
Language endeavouring to get her Daughter out of his Service<lb></lb>
says that in the Daughters answer to the Mother he has<lb></lb>
freequently<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
heard her Threaten her with the word Gullyhole<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo148">Chick-Lane</rs>
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Ghost Etc from which he suspected that some bad Crime<lb></lb>
had been Committed, and one day insisting on the Young woman's<lb></lb>
telling him the Truth, She confessed that her said Mother<lb></lb>
had Cruelly used and Starved two of her apprentice to Death vizt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n283-4">Ann</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n283-5">Mary Nailor</rs>
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and that she Cut the Body of the former<lb></lb>
in Pieces and carried it to the Gulley hole in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo149">Chick-Lane</rs>
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all<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
one hand which She Burnt for fear of a discovery it having<lb></lb>
a Stump Fringer, and that she kept the Body in a Box inter<lb></lb>
House upwards of two Months before she carried it to the Gully<lb></lb>
Hole as aforesaid</p>
<p n="284">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
8th. day of July 1762}</p>
<p n="285"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n285-1">Richd Hooker</rs>
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