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Midd. ss.
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Sophia Ballard
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wife of
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William Ballard
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of the
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pish of St Giles without Cripplegate
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Cordwainer
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, maketh oath that she
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this Depont was two years prisoner in the
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house of Correccon
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Clerkenwell
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in this county
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and was discharged from thence the first day
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of last Sessions & that dureing this Deponts
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imprisonment
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and twenty poor prisoners in
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the said prison dyed most of them by hunger and
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cold (as this Depont verily beleives) the prisoners
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not being allowed sufficient Dyeth, straw to lye
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on nor fire nor Candle; and that many of the
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poor prisoners have dureing that time been
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cruelly beat and misused by Mrs Gregory and old
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Mother Wilson belonging to the said prison, but
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hath seen Capt Moult Keep of the said Prison
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turne out tenn prisoners in fifteen (si
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ing their fees about a week after they have
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been discharged at Sessions and that the said
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Mrs Gregory employed one
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als
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Phillips
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(a Convict Committed to the said prison for two
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years) as her servant to doe her work in the
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house & suffered the said
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Mary Stent
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als Phillips
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to goe abroad at large upon
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Mrs Gregory in the day time
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Sophia
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Ballard
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Sworne this
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5th day of Dec
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1710
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before us
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