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<p n="299"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo159">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n299-1">Jeremiah Brown</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo160">Princess Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo161">Oxford Road</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ48">Cow keeper</rs>
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and Milkman taken before me this<lb></lb>
12th. day of July 1762</p>
<p n="300">Who being upon Oath says that he Knows one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n300-1">Sarah Metyard</rs>
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late of Braton Street <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ49">Widow</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n300-2">Sarah Morgan Metyard</rs>
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her Daughter, says that he has served them with Milk between<lb></lb>
four and five Years past, says that between three and four<lb></lb>
Years agos, one Morning when he called at the door of the said<lb></lb>
Metyard's to serve them with Milk as usual a Girl whom he<lb></lb>
took to be the said Mrs. Metyard's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ50">Apprentice</rs>
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come running<lb></lb>
out of the door Crying, at which time the said Metyard and her<lb></lb>
Daughter called out to this Informant to stop her, say she<lb></lb>
did accordingly Stop her, that at this Time the Child Prayed<lb></lb>
of this Informants to let her goe saying that if she was taken<lb></lb>
into the House again she shou'd be starved to Death<lb></lb>
declaring at the same time that She had then been<lb></lb>
kept without Victuals for a considerable time, but the<lb></lb>
exact time this Informt. does not reccolect, says that<lb></lb>
the Daughter of the said Metyard recd the Child from this<lb></lb>
Informt. took her by the Neck and dragged her into the House<lb></lb>
that at this Time the said Child was like an Otomy and<lb></lb>
appeared as if she had Actually been Starved, says that<lb></lb>
on this Account he this Informt. Enquire the Character of<lb></lb>
said Metyard in the Neighbourhood and finding it to be<lb></lb>
very bad past to the Usage of her apprentices he applied to one of the Overseers of the Poor<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo162">St. Georges Parish</rs>
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who was then and is now a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ51">Linnen<lb></lb>
Draper</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo163">Bond Street</rs>
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and told him what had</p>
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