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July 1762

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Ann Nailor< no role > This name instance is in set 3707. but that She found the Room door open and there
was nothing remaining in the Room except her Shoes, which
She returned and Told her Mistress, who said then She is run away
as did the Daughter who was then present, that She this Informt.
then answered, then She is run without Shoes to which the
Mistress replied Oh She wou'd not stay for her Shoes, [..]
says that no enquiry was ever made after the said Girl and
these Informant's say that they were at that time and tile
the Apprehending of their said Mistress persuaded that it was
possible the said Ann Nailor< no role > This name instance is in set 3707. might have run away as
was Industriously reported by the Mistress, but that they
were very much alarmed about a Week afterwardsthe pretended running away [..] seeing in
the Housethea new Shift which was the Identical Shiftwhich
the Girl had on at the time it was pretended she run away as
aforesaid and that they did not miss any part of her Cloaths-
and these Informants farther say that for these reasons-
Joined to other circumstances since come to their Knowledge
they do verily believe that the said in the House and that her
Doath they are very sure was occasioned by being Beat and starved
in manner aforesaid, and say that both their Mistress and her Daughter
were equally Guilty of the Barbarity with which She was Treated
for that she was beat and Tyed up in manner aforesaid by the
Daughter with the knowledge and Consent of the Mother, and that
when Sheasthe supposed Deceased Ann Nailor< no role > This name instance is in set 3707. hath been stared
and kept from Victuals as well as these Informants by the Mother
the Daughter alway shad it in her Power to have given them
Victuals, but that in general the Mistress used them with more
Cruelty than the Daughter, and these Informants say




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