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300 A FULL AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF ,
goods she had to sell ? Iniser. No, I did not, I always
saw her by herself: I saw a young man in blue-grey when
she was taken up, and two young women, all taken in the
house of Wells.
Wells being called upon to make her defence, said,
As to her character it was but an indifferent one, that she
had had an unfortunate husband who was hanged. And
added, she never saw the young woman (meaning E.
Canning) till they came to take us tip ; and as to Squires,
she never saw her above a week and a day before they
were taken up.-Squires guilty,- Death.—Wells guilty.
Squires, the last day of the sessions, being asked what
she had to say before she received sentence, answered,
that, “ On New Year’s Day I lay at Coom, at the widow
Grevil’s house ; the next day I was at Stoptage; there
■were some people who were cast away,, and they came
along with me to a little house on the top of the moor,
and drank there ; there were my son and daughter with
me. Coming along Popham Lane, there were some peo-
ple raking up dung. I drank at the second alehouse in
Basingstoke on the Thursday in the new year week. On
the Friday I lay at Bagshot-Heath, at a little tiney house
on the heath. On the Saturday I lay at Old Brentford,,
at Mrs. Edwards’s, who sells greens and small-beer. I
could have told this before, but one pulled me and ano-
ther pulled me, and would not let me speak. I lay at
.'Mrs. Edwards’s on the Sunday and Monday, and on the
Tuesday or Wednesday after I came fi;om thence to Mrs.
Wells’s house.”
The trial being thus ended, some days after the con-
demnation of the gipsy, it began to be talked that Vertue
HaU, who had sworn so positively to all the particulars
at the Old Bailey, had or would recant all her evidence
that she had deposed there, and swear the whole to be
false. Dr. Hili, a gentleman well known for his many
writings,
goods she had to sell ? Iniser. No, I did not, I always
saw her by herself: I saw a young man in blue-grey when
she was taken up, and two young women, all taken in the
house of Wells.
Wells being called upon to make her defence, said,
As to her character it was but an indifferent one, that she
had had an unfortunate husband who was hanged. And
added, she never saw the young woman (meaning E.
Canning) till they came to take us tip ; and as to Squires,
she never saw her above a week and a day before they
were taken up.-Squires guilty,- Death.—Wells guilty.
Squires, the last day of the sessions, being asked what
she had to say before she received sentence, answered,
that, “ On New Year’s Day I lay at Coom, at the widow
Grevil’s house ; the next day I was at Stoptage; there
■were some people who were cast away,, and they came
along with me to a little house on the top of the moor,
and drank there ; there were my son and daughter with
me. Coming along Popham Lane, there were some peo-
ple raking up dung. I drank at the second alehouse in
Basingstoke on the Thursday in the new year week. On
the Friday I lay at Bagshot-Heath, at a little tiney house
on the heath. On the Saturday I lay at Old Brentford,,
at Mrs. Edwards’s, who sells greens and small-beer. I
could have told this before, but one pulled me and ano-
ther pulled me, and would not let me speak. I lay at
.'Mrs. Edwards’s on the Sunday and Monday, and on the
Tuesday or Wednesday after I came fi;om thence to Mrs.
Wells’s house.”
The trial being thus ended, some days after the con-
demnation of the gipsy, it began to be talked that Vertue
HaU, who had sworn so positively to all the particulars
at the Old Bailey, had or would recant all her evidence
that she had deposed there, and swear the whole to be
false. Dr. Hili, a gentleman well known for his many
writings,