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366 A FULL AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF
ing escaped, she got back to hex* friends in London, in
about six hours, in a most weak and miserable condition^
being almost starved to death, and without ever once stop-
ping at any house or place by the way.—She likewise says^
that during her whole confinement no person ever came
near her to ask her any question whatever, nor did she
see any belonging to the house more than once, when one
of the women peeped through a hole in the door, and that
she herself was afraid to call or speak to any one.
It is remarkable, that pn the 6th of January 1753, the
following advertisement appeared in the Daily Advertiser;
viz.—c< Whereas Elizabeth Canning went from her friends
between Hpunsditch and Bishppsgate, on Monday last,
the 1st instant, between nine and ten o’clock ;—Whoever
can give any account where she is, shall have Two Guineas
Reward, to be paid by Mrs. Canning, a Sawyer, in Alder-
manbury Postern; which will be a great satisfaction to
her' mother.—She is fresh-coloured, pitted with the small-
pox, bps a high forehead, light eye-brows, about five feet
high, eighteen years of age, well-set, had on a masquerade
purple stuff gown, a black petticoat, a white chip hat,
bound round with green, a white apron and handkerchief,
blue stockings, and leather shoes.
“ Note, It is supposed she was forcibly taken away by
some evil-disposed person, as she was heard to shriek out
in a hackney-coach in Bishopsgate-street.—If the coach-
man remembers any thing of the affair, by giving an ac-
count as above, he shall be handsomely rewarded for his
trouble.”
Upon this advertisement, Dr. Hill, a writer on the side
of the gipsy, thus remarks :—“ Why supposed to be taken
forcibly away ?—Are these transactions common ? or was
there any thing in the present case to authorise such an
imagination?—To what purpose should she be forced
away!—She is not handsome ; so that the design could
not
ing escaped, she got back to hex* friends in London, in
about six hours, in a most weak and miserable condition^
being almost starved to death, and without ever once stop-
ping at any house or place by the way.—She likewise says^
that during her whole confinement no person ever came
near her to ask her any question whatever, nor did she
see any belonging to the house more than once, when one
of the women peeped through a hole in the door, and that
she herself was afraid to call or speak to any one.
It is remarkable, that pn the 6th of January 1753, the
following advertisement appeared in the Daily Advertiser;
viz.—c< Whereas Elizabeth Canning went from her friends
between Hpunsditch and Bishppsgate, on Monday last,
the 1st instant, between nine and ten o’clock ;—Whoever
can give any account where she is, shall have Two Guineas
Reward, to be paid by Mrs. Canning, a Sawyer, in Alder-
manbury Postern; which will be a great satisfaction to
her' mother.—She is fresh-coloured, pitted with the small-
pox, bps a high forehead, light eye-brows, about five feet
high, eighteen years of age, well-set, had on a masquerade
purple stuff gown, a black petticoat, a white chip hat,
bound round with green, a white apron and handkerchief,
blue stockings, and leather shoes.
“ Note, It is supposed she was forcibly taken away by
some evil-disposed person, as she was heard to shriek out
in a hackney-coach in Bishopsgate-street.—If the coach-
man remembers any thing of the affair, by giving an ac-
count as above, he shall be handsomely rewarded for his
trouble.”
Upon this advertisement, Dr. Hill, a writer on the side
of the gipsy, thus remarks :—“ Why supposed to be taken
forcibly away ?—Are these transactions common ? or was
there any thing in the present case to authorise such an
imagination?—To what purpose should she be forced
away!—She is not handsome ; so that the design could
not