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MARY SQUIRES, A GIPSY; AKD ELIZ. CANNING. 369
This account differing in some circumstances from what
-she deposed afterwards, and from what the room was
found to be, (especially in regard to the dimensions, it
being 30 feet long, and only 9 broad ; and in respect to
her lying on the boards, for she had said at first that there
was hay in the room; and has deposed the same on oath
since,) has been strongly alledged against her, as a proof
of her Whole story being false :—But on the other side it
is said, that as the girl w'as extremely faint and weak at
the time of this examination, as there was a great number
of persons present, so that even the aiderman himself
owned on the late trial; that he did not know how Mothef
Wells’s name came to be put down in the warrant he signed
for apprehending her, as being the person who had cut
Canning’s stays off; he not remembering that the girl ever
mentioned her name ; considering all these circumstances,
those persons that espouse her cause say, that the difference
which was in her deposition at this time, might probably
arise from the mistake of the clerk, who took it amidst the
talk of so many persons. A warrant being granted by the
aiderman, it was resolved that the girl should be carried
down in a coach the next day, and several of her friends
agreed to accompany her on horseback; among which
were Mr, Lyon, her master whom she lived with, Mr.
Wintlebury, with whom she had lived before, Mr. Nash,
Mr. Hage, Mr. Aldrich, Mr. Adamson, Mr. Skerret, Mrs.
Woodward, and several others of her neighbours and ac-
quaintance. When they came doWn, the girl was first car-
ried out of the coach in a man’s arms into the kitchen of
Mother Wells’s house, and set on the dresser, where she
seemed very faint and ill; upon which her master, Lyon,
bid her not be frightened, for she was among friends, but
at the same time charged her to be sure not to swear
any thing rashly, but to be quite certain before she fixed
upon any one. She was then carried into the parlour, were
Mother
This account differing in some circumstances from what
-she deposed afterwards, and from what the room was
found to be, (especially in regard to the dimensions, it
being 30 feet long, and only 9 broad ; and in respect to
her lying on the boards, for she had said at first that there
was hay in the room; and has deposed the same on oath
since,) has been strongly alledged against her, as a proof
of her Whole story being false :—But on the other side it
is said, that as the girl w'as extremely faint and weak at
the time of this examination, as there was a great number
of persons present, so that even the aiderman himself
owned on the late trial; that he did not know how Mothef
Wells’s name came to be put down in the warrant he signed
for apprehending her, as being the person who had cut
Canning’s stays off; he not remembering that the girl ever
mentioned her name ; considering all these circumstances,
those persons that espouse her cause say, that the difference
which was in her deposition at this time, might probably
arise from the mistake of the clerk, who took it amidst the
talk of so many persons. A warrant being granted by the
aiderman, it was resolved that the girl should be carried
down in a coach the next day, and several of her friends
agreed to accompany her on horseback; among which
were Mr, Lyon, her master whom she lived with, Mr.
Wintlebury, with whom she had lived before, Mr. Nash,
Mr. Hage, Mr. Aldrich, Mr. Adamson, Mr. Skerret, Mrs.
Woodward, and several others of her neighbours and ac-
quaintance. When they came doWn, the girl was first car-
ried out of the coach in a man’s arms into the kitchen of
Mother Wells’s house, and set on the dresser, where she
seemed very faint and ill; upon which her master, Lyon,
bid her not be frightened, for she was among friends, but
at the same time charged her to be sure not to swear
any thing rashly, but to be quite certain before she fixed
upon any one. She was then carried into the parlour, were
Mother