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<p n="46">Prisoners<lb></lb>
starved<lb></lb>
to<lb></lb>
Death</p>
<p n="47">Cruelty<lb></lb>
towards<lb></lb>
Prisoners</p>
<p n="48">Prisoners<lb></lb>
allowed<lb></lb>
to goe<lb></lb>
abroad</p>
<p n="49"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Midd. ss.</note>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50117_n49-1">Sophia Ballard</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n49-1" type="surname" value="Ballard"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n49-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50117_n49-2">William Ballard</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n49-2" type="surname" value="Ballard"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n49-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50117_geo22">pish of St Giles without Cripplegate</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_geo22" type="placeName" value="pish of St Giles without Cripplegate"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_geo22" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in<lb></lb>
this County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50117_occ10">Cordwainer</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_occ10" type="occupation" value="Cordwainer"></interp>
, maketh oath that she<lb></lb>
this Depont was two years prisoner in the<lb></lb>
house of Correccon <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50117_geo23">Clerkenwell</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_geo23" type="placeName" value="Clerkenwell"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_geo23" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in this county<lb></lb>
and was discharged from thence the first day<lb></lb>
of last Sessions & that dureing this Deponts<lb></lb>
imprisonment<obscured></obscured>
and twenty poor prisoners in<lb></lb>
the said prison dyed most of them by hunger and<lb></lb>
cold (as this Depont verily beleives) the prisoners<lb></lb>
not being allowed sufficient Dyeth, straw to lye<lb></lb>
on nor fire nor Candle; and that many of the<lb></lb>
poor prisoners have dureing that time been<lb></lb>
cruelly beat and misused by Mrs Gregory and old<lb></lb>
Mother Wilson belonging to the said prison, but<lb></lb>
hath seen Capt Moult Keep of the said Prison<lb></lb>
turne out tenn prisoners in fifteen (si<obscured></obscured>
) without pay-<lb></lb>
ing their fees about a week after they have<lb></lb>
been discharged at Sessions and that the said<lb></lb>
Mrs Gregory employed one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50117_n49-3">Mary Stent</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n49-3" type="surname" value="Stent"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n49-3" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
als <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50117_n49-5">Phillips</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n49-5" type="surname" value="Phillips"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n49-5" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
<lb></lb>
(a Convict Committed to the said prison for two<lb></lb>
years) as her servant to doe her work in the<lb></lb>
house & suffered the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50117_n49-4">Mary Stent</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n49-4" type="given" value="Mary"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n49-4" type="surname" value="Stent"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n49-4" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
als Phillips<lb></lb>
to goe abroad at large upon<obscured></obscured>
ands. for the said<lb></lb>
Mrs Gregory in the day time</p>
<p n="50">The mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50117_n50-1">Sophia<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Ballard</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n50-1" type="surname" value="Ballard"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n50-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
</p>
<p n="51"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sworne this <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50117_date13">5th day of Dec<lb></lb>
1710</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_date13" type="date" value="17101205"></interp>
before us</note>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50117_n51-1">Edw. Lettice</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n51-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50117_n51-2">Nathl Manlove</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n51-2" type="surname" value="Manlove"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50117_n51-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</p>
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