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<p n="2">THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE, His Account of the Behaviour, Confession, Etc.</p>
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otherwise <rs type="persName" id="OA17440315_n3-2">Tracey</rs>
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was indicted, for <rs type="occupation" id="OA17440315_occ3">assaulting</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="OA17440315_n3-3">Will. Humphreys</rs>
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, on the Highway, putting him in Fear, and taking from him one Guinea, <rs type="date" id="OA17440315_date3">23Dec</rs>
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<p n="4"> <rs type="persName" id="OA17440315_n4-1">Martha Tracey</rs>
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, about eighteen or twenty Years of Age, of honest, mean Parents, in the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17440315_geo4">Parish of St. James's Westminster</rs>
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: Her Father was a Chairman, but died and left the Mother a young Widow, who took care of Martha, but did very little to educate her in the Fear of the Lord, or good and virtuous Principles. When young, her Mother put her to <rs type="occupation" id="OA17440315_occ4">School</rs>
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; but Martha minded no such things, and had quite forgot all, being a perverse, vicious, Girl, void of all good Dispositions, and wholly untractable and unadviseable, giving herself up to the vileft Company on Earth, both of Men and Women. When of Age, she was not put to any Business, but went to <rs type="occupation" id="OA17440315_occ5">Service</rs>
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sometimes, though she lov'd not that Confinement, but always broke off, and went idling her Time away about the Streets with her helh wicked Companions, who indce'd her to commence <rs type="occupation" id="OA17440315_occ6">Whore</rs>
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, upon which she turn'd a meer repro-</p>
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