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Midd ss.
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Elizabeth Halsall
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wife of
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Henry Halsall
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of the Pish
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of St James Clerkenwell
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in this County
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Cordwainer
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, Ma
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oath that for a yeare last past and upwards this Depont
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had occasion to goe to the house of Correccon att
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Clerkenwell
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in this County to carry victualls & provision to this Deponts
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said husband who was a prisoner in the said prison for
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one whole yeare and upwards & this Depont hath been sevall
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times hundred & obstructed from carrying pvisions to sevall
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of the prisoners in the said prison, and that the prisoners
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have not been allowed water to drink in the said prison
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Ever since July last but what has been
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in from
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the neighbours adjoyneing to the sd prison, and that the last
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Winter there dyed Seaventeen or Eighteen prisoners in the said prison
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most of which were (as this Depont verily beleives) starved to death
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with Hunger & cold & were not allowed straw to lye on, And
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this Depont hath often times seen the prisoners in the said
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prison cruelly beaten & abused by
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Henry Moult
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Keep of
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the said prison & Mrs Gregory the House Keeper there and
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hath seen severall psons vizt.
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Mary Stent
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a woman called
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Singing Moll,
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Elizabeth Liddiall
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&
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Sophia Ballard
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who
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were Convits & Committed to the said prison for a certaine
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time frequently to goe out of the said prison att large
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before the times for their enlargment were expired And this
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Deponent hath often times seen some of the prisoners in the
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same prison to eat turnip topps, pareings of turnipps, pease
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shells
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heane shells which they took off the Dunghill in the
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yard of the said prison and often times to pull & eat the Vine
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leaves of the
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in the said yard as
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as the said pri
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could reeach and this Deponent hath often times
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carried Cabbage leaves and other things for the prisoners
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to eat according as they have begged of this Depont, and
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further saith that about four or five months since a poor
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child who had been a prisoner in the said prison
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almost
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Starved to death Vict hunger, was turned out of the said prison
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and had crawled as farr as
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Newcastle house
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in the Close neer
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the said prison but he not being able to goe any further was
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fetched back into the said prison againe and put into one of the
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wards there & lay on the bare board and dyed in a day or
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after in a miserable medicine & was almost eaten up with
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And further saith that she saw the said Mrs Gregory cruelly
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and inhumanely beat & misuse one
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Mary Taylor
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a prisoner
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the said prison att the time that she was very sick
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& weak and the said
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Mary Taylor
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dyed in two or three
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day after (as this Deponent verily beleives) farnished
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to death with hunger and Cold.
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The mark of
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Eliz:
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Halsall
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4th day of
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Decr 1710
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before us
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Mart: Ryder
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Herbert Jacob
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