Water
denied
to
prisoners

Prisoners
Starved
to
Death

Singing
Moll

Garbage
Eaten
by
Prisoners

Miserable
Deaths
of
Prisoners

Midd ss.

Elizabeth Halsall< no role > wife of Henry Halsall< no role > of the Pish
of St James Clerkenwell in this County Cordwainer , Ma [..]
oath that for a yeare last past and upwards this Depont
had occasion to goe to the house of Correccon att Clerkenwell
in this County to carry victualls & provision to this Deponts
said husband who was a prisoner in the said prison for
one whole yeare and upwards & this Depont hath been sevall
times hundred & obstructed from carrying pvisions to sevall
of the prisoners in the said prison, and that the prisoners
have not been allowed water to drink in the said prison
Ever since July last but what has been [..] in from
the neighbours adjoyneing to the sd prison, and that the last
Winter there dyed Seaventeen or Eighteen prisoners in the said prison
most of which were (as this Depont verily beleives) starved to death
with Hunger & cold & were not allowed straw to lye on, And
this Depont hath often times seen the prisoners in the said
prison cruelly beaten & abused by Henry Moult< no role > Keep of
the said prison & Mrs Gregory the House Keeper there and
hath seen severall psons vizt. Mary Stent< no role > a woman called
Singing Moll, Elizabeth Liddiall< no role > & Sophia Ballard< no role > who
were Convits & Committed to the said prison for a certaine
time frequently to goe out of the said prison att large
before the times for their enlargment were expired And this
Deponent hath often times seen some of the prisoners in the
same prison to eat turnip topps, pareings of turnipps, pease
shells [..] heane shells which they took off the Dunghill in the
yard of the said prison and often times to pull & eat the Vine
leaves of the [..] in the said yard as [..] as the said pri
[..] could reeach and this Deponent hath often times
carried Cabbage leaves and other things for the prisoners
to eat according as they have begged of this Depont, and
further saith that about four or five months since a poor
child who had been a prisoner in the said prison [..] almost
Starved to death Vict hunger, was turned out of the said prison
and had crawled as farr as Newcastle house in the Close neer
the said prison but he not being able to goe any further was
fetched back into the said prison againe and put into one of the
wards there & lay on the bare board and dyed in a day or [..]
after in a miserable medicine & was almost eaten up with [..]
And further saith that she saw the said Mrs Gregory cruelly
and inhumanely beat & misuse one Mary Taylor< no role > a prisoner
[..] the said prison att the time that she was very sick
& weak and the said Mary Taylor< no role > dyed in two or three
day after (as this Deponent verily beleives) farnished
to death with hunger and Cold.

The mark of
Eliz: [mark] Halsall< no role >

Sworne the 4th day of
Decr 1710 before us

Mart: Ryder< no role >
Herbert Jacob< no role > .