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MARY SQUIRES, A GIPSY ; AND ELIZ. CANNING. 383
feiy daughter is subject to fits ; there was a garret ceiling
fell in upon her heath which first occasioned them ; and
at times, when any body speaks hastily to her, or on any
surprize, she is very liable to fall in one; she has some-
times continued in one, seven or eight hours, sometimes
three or four ; she is not sensible during the time she is
in one, no more than a new born babe: when I came to
myself, my daughter was talking to Mrs. Woodward and
Mr. Wintlebury ; they asked her where she had been,
she said on the Hertfordshire Road, which she knew by
seeing a coach going by; she gave the same account she
has here.- When she came into her warm bed, she was
very sick, and had no free passage through her for stool
or urine, till she was supplied with glisters for seven days
after she came home, but what was forced by half a cup
full at a time.
John ’Wintlebury. I saw Elizabeth Canning the night
she came home ; she appeared in a very bad condition,
and had this dirty bed-gown and cap on. Hearing she was
come home, I went to her mother’s house, and said, Bet,
How do you dor She said, I am very bad. Said I, Where
have you been ? She said, she had been somewhere on the
Hertfordshire Road, because she had seen the Hertford-
shire Coach go backwards and forwards.—Q. Have you
heard the evidence she has given here in court ?—Wintie-
bury. I have ; she gave the same account that night, but
not quite so fully that night as she did before the sitting
Alderman, on the Wednesday after, but all agrees with
what she has said there; I found her in a great flurry, so
did not ask her many questions that night.
.Joseph Adamson. I have known E. Canning the
younger for some years ; I never 'saw her after she came
home, till the day we went down to take the people up ;
I and several neighbours of us agreed to go to the place,
some on horseback and some in the coach with E. Can-
d d d 2 ning ;
feiy daughter is subject to fits ; there was a garret ceiling
fell in upon her heath which first occasioned them ; and
at times, when any body speaks hastily to her, or on any
surprize, she is very liable to fall in one; she has some-
times continued in one, seven or eight hours, sometimes
three or four ; she is not sensible during the time she is
in one, no more than a new born babe: when I came to
myself, my daughter was talking to Mrs. Woodward and
Mr. Wintlebury ; they asked her where she had been,
she said on the Hertfordshire Road, which she knew by
seeing a coach going by; she gave the same account she
has here.- When she came into her warm bed, she was
very sick, and had no free passage through her for stool
or urine, till she was supplied with glisters for seven days
after she came home, but what was forced by half a cup
full at a time.
John ’Wintlebury. I saw Elizabeth Canning the night
she came home ; she appeared in a very bad condition,
and had this dirty bed-gown and cap on. Hearing she was
come home, I went to her mother’s house, and said, Bet,
How do you dor She said, I am very bad. Said I, Where
have you been ? She said, she had been somewhere on the
Hertfordshire Road, because she had seen the Hertford-
shire Coach go backwards and forwards.—Q. Have you
heard the evidence she has given here in court ?—Wintie-
bury. I have ; she gave the same account that night, but
not quite so fully that night as she did before the sitting
Alderman, on the Wednesday after, but all agrees with
what she has said there; I found her in a great flurry, so
did not ask her many questions that night.
.Joseph Adamson. I have known E. Canning the
younger for some years ; I never 'saw her after she came
home, till the day we went down to take the people up ;
I and several neighbours of us agreed to go to the place,
some on horseback and some in the coach with E. Can-
d d d 2 ning ;