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asked what she was going to push the girl up stairs for ?
Mary Squires answered, “ What is it to you ?—You
have no business with her.” About two hours after, a
quantity pf water in an old broken-mouthed large black
jug, was carried up fhe said stairs, and put flown upon
the floor ; qnd soon after Elizabeth Canning was so put
into the said workshop ; John Squires returned again into
the kitchpn, and took the stays from off the chairs, and
went away with the same, and in about an hour’s time re-
turned, and went into the parlour with the said Susannah
Wells ■ v»ho said' tp her, “ Vertue, the gipsy man has
been telling me that his mother bad put the girl’s (meaning
the said Elizabeth Canning’s) stays off her back and
further said, “ I desire ypu will not make a clack of it,
for feat it should be blown.” And from the time of Eliza-
beth Canning being so confined in the morning of thp said
second day of January, in manner as aforesaid, she was
not missed, or discovered to have escaped, until Wednes-
day the 31st day of the same month of January, as she
verily believes • that to thp best of her recollection and
belief, she was the person that first missed Elizabeth Can-
ning thereout. And the said Susannah Wells harboured
and continued Mary Squires in her aforesaid house, from
the time of Mary Squires robbing Elizabeth Canning of
her stays, until Thursday the 1st day of February last
pp.st, when Susannah Wells, Sarah her: daughter, Mary
Squires, John Squires, his two sisters Katharine and Mary
Squires, Fortune Natus, and Sarah his wife, and this in-
formant, were apprehended, and carried before Justice
Tyshemaker.-r-And that Fortune Natus, and Sarah his
wife, to the best of her belief, havejodged in the house
pf Susannah Weljs about eleven weeks next before Mon-
day the 5 th day of February instant, and continued lying
there until Thursday; when all, except Susannah Wells
and Mary Squires, were discharged, and. then that evening,
the
asked what she was going to push the girl up stairs for ?
Mary Squires answered, “ What is it to you ?—You
have no business with her.” About two hours after, a
quantity pf water in an old broken-mouthed large black
jug, was carried up fhe said stairs, and put flown upon
the floor ; qnd soon after Elizabeth Canning was so put
into the said workshop ; John Squires returned again into
the kitchpn, and took the stays from off the chairs, and
went away with the same, and in about an hour’s time re-
turned, and went into the parlour with the said Susannah
Wells ■ v»ho said' tp her, “ Vertue, the gipsy man has
been telling me that his mother bad put the girl’s (meaning
the said Elizabeth Canning’s) stays off her back and
further said, “ I desire ypu will not make a clack of it,
for feat it should be blown.” And from the time of Eliza-
beth Canning being so confined in the morning of thp said
second day of January, in manner as aforesaid, she was
not missed, or discovered to have escaped, until Wednes-
day the 31st day of the same month of January, as she
verily believes • that to thp best of her recollection and
belief, she was the person that first missed Elizabeth Can-
ning thereout. And the said Susannah Wells harboured
and continued Mary Squires in her aforesaid house, from
the time of Mary Squires robbing Elizabeth Canning of
her stays, until Thursday the 1st day of February last
pp.st, when Susannah Wells, Sarah her: daughter, Mary
Squires, John Squires, his two sisters Katharine and Mary
Squires, Fortune Natus, and Sarah his wife, and this in-
formant, were apprehended, and carried before Justice
Tyshemaker.-r-And that Fortune Natus, and Sarah his
wife, to the best of her belief, havejodged in the house
pf Susannah Weljs about eleven weeks next before Mon-
day the 5 th day of February instant, and continued lying
there until Thursday; when all, except Susannah Wells
and Mary Squires, were discharged, and. then that evening,
the