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28th November 1766 - 17th December 1767

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deced and said she did not know what she had
been about and that she had not time to beat
her then but that she must go and visit her
Patients she being a Mid wife when she returned would give
her her live: that from that timethe deced
the sd. Elizth. Browningg< no role > This name instance is in set 3714. was out every day in the Week till Friday
the [..] 31st. day of July last when abt. ten of
the Clock in the Morning she tied the deced
up by a Cord with her hands a cross to a Staples
fixed to a Beam in the Kitchen under Ground
and then beat her with a Whalebone Riding
Whip for about ten Minutes the deced
being quite naked and she forcing the
deced to strip herself; that she therewith
beat her in all parts of her Body and with
the But and of the Whip several times
about the Head till the Blood gushed out in
several parts of her Body and Head, and
sd. Elizabeth Browningg< no role > This name instance is in set 3714. after she had done
beating her took her Cloaths from her
and kept them from her all the day keeping
her quite naked all the time: that she
fastened her as before to the Beam [..] five
times afterwardsthe samebeating her all
the times with the House whip at such
times giving her no Victuals till ten the
same night when she gave the deced some
Broth a little of which she eat but was so
ill that she could not act much: Says the deced
never lay in a Bed for above a Week after she
was bound since which she lay in a bloke
under the Stairs without Bed or Beding and
was frequently denied the Cloaths she were
to cover her That the next day, thought [..]
ill and not able to eat and hardly to stand [..] she
put to wash Flannels and clean Knives:
Says the deced eat nothing from that time to the
Tuesday following only at times [..]
sipped a little Water and Brothi the sd. Elizabeth
Brownrigg was out all the Saturday & Sunday
and Mrs. Brownrigg's eldest Son being ill on the
monday she was wholly employed in taking care
them. Says the deced bled continually from her
Head and Should was from Friday the 31st. July to the
Tuesday following when she was taken to the




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