Prisoners
starved
to
Death

Cruelty
towards
Prisoners

Prisoners
allowed
to goe
abroad

Midd. ss.

Sophia Ballard< no role > wife of William Ballard< no role >
of the pish of St Giles without Cripplegate in
this County Cordwainer , maketh oath that she
this Depont was two years prisoner in the
house of Correccon Clerkenwell in this county
and was discharged from thence the first day
of last Sessions & that dureing this Deponts
imprisonment [..] and twenty poor prisoners in
the said prison dyed most of them by hunger and
cold (as this Depont verily beleives) the prisoners
not being allowed sufficient Dyeth, straw to lye
on nor fire nor Candle; and that many of the
poor prisoners have dureing that time been
cruelly beat and misused by Mrs Gregory and old
Mother Wilson belonging to the said prison, but
hath seen Capt Moult Keep of the said Prison
turne out tenn prisoners in fifteen (si [..] ) without pay-
ing their fees about a week after they have
been discharged at Sessions and that the said
Mrs Gregory employed one Mary Stent< no role > als Phillips< no role >
(a Convict Committed to the said prison for two
years) as her servant to doe her work in the
house & suffered the said Mary Stent< no role > als Phillips
to goe abroad at large upon [..] ands. for the said
Mrs Gregory in the day time

The mark of
Sophia [mark] Ballard< no role >

Sworne this 5th day of Dec
1710 before us

Edw. Lettice< no role >
Nathl Manlove< no role >