No water
allowed

Prisoners
Cruelly
beaten

Boys
turned
out of
Prison
Starving
& with
Joes [..]
off.

Midd ss.

Avery Cooke< no role > wife of William Cook< no role > of the Pish of St James
Clerkenwell in this County salesman maketh oath that her
said husband living our [..] the house of Correccon att Clerken
well aforesd she this Depont hath sevall times carried vic-
tualls to one Gerton a prisoner in the said house of
Correccion about three weeks or a month since but was
often times hindred from carrying such victualls into the
sd prison to the sd Gerton by Mary Best< no role > the pson that [..]
the Key of the Gate to the said prison, and this Depont
acquainted Capt Moult Governor of the said house of
Correccion there [..] who took noe notice thereof but
called this Deponent a troublesome woman, And this
Depont further saith that the prisoners in the said prison
have not been allowed [..] to drinck there for three or
four months past, And this Depont hath seen and observed
that sevall of the prisoners in the said prison have been
Cruetly beaten and abused in the said prison by Mrs Gregory
the housekeeper of the said prison & by the Whipper there
and that she saw sevall other psons lately were refused
to be admitted to carry victualls into the said prison to
the prisoners there for their releife, And that she this Depont
on Friday last in the evening saw three poore women
Come out of the said prison who had been prisoners there for
some time and that the said three poor women ap-
peared to be very weak and meagre and were scarce able
to goe and were almost starved with hunger and that the
said poore women had been very much beaten & abused
in the said prison as this Deponent verily beleives, their
Armes and thighs being very much marked with black
red and blew strokes

Sworne this 4th day of
Dec 1710

The marke of
Avery [mark] Cooke

The above named Avery Cook maketh oath that about twoe
years agoe or more she this Depont saw two or three poor Boys
turned out of the said house of Correcion whoe appeared to be very mea
-ger and weak and some of their Joes were rotted off with
excessive cold & misery that they had undergone in the said
prison & this Deponent saw one of the said poore boys imediate
-ly brought back to the said prison in a wheelbarrow not being
able to goe & this Deponent was informed that the said
poore boy who was soe brought back dyed in the said prison
in a day or two & that the sd other two boys were found dead
the next day, one in an old house & the other upon a
dunghill,

The mark of
Avery [mark] Cooke

Sworne this 4th day of
December 1710 before
us.

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