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MARY SQUIRES, A GIPSY; ANI> ELIZ. CANNING. 441
Robert Beals, who is one that attends the turnpike at
Stamford Hill, deposed, That, at the beginning of Janu-
ary, as he was standing b.y the gate at near eleven at
night, be heard a sobbing and crying on the road ; it
came from towards. Newington, and drew nearer and
pearer ; at last he perceived it was two men and a young
person, seemingly by her crying; one said, Come along,
you b—h, you are drunk; the other said, How drunk the
b—h is! and made a sort of a laugh; but she seemed
unwilling to go. By his light he could see them, one got
over t :e style, and the other laid hold of one of her legs,
or both, and lifted them over, so that she came down up-
right ; she hung back and fell on her breech on the step of
the style, and set out a fresh cry bitterly, as though she
would go no further ; that he went nearer them, expecting
she would speak to him ; but there being two men, andhe-
ftlone, he did not think it safe to interpose ; that the one
pulled her, and the other jostled her along, and so they
took her out of sight towards Enfield.
Thomas Bennet deposed, He lives at Enfield, near the
ten miles stone ; and on the 29th of January 175.3, be-
tween four and five in the afternoon, between Mother
Wells’s. and his own house, he saw a miserable poor
wretch coming along, without either gown, stays, cap,
hat, or apron on, only a dirty thing, like half a handker-
chief, over her head, and a piece of something on, that
reached down just below her waist, with her hands lying
together before her ; she asked him the way to London.
David Dyer deposed, He lived at Enfield Wash; that
about a quarter of a mile from Mother Wells’s house, to-
wards London, at four in the afternoon, three evenings
before Mother Wells and her family were taken up, he
saw a poor distressed creature pass by him, out of the
common field ; he said to her, Sweetheart, do you want a
busband ? She made no answer ; she had a thing tied
over
Robert Beals, who is one that attends the turnpike at
Stamford Hill, deposed, That, at the beginning of Janu-
ary, as he was standing b.y the gate at near eleven at
night, be heard a sobbing and crying on the road ; it
came from towards. Newington, and drew nearer and
pearer ; at last he perceived it was two men and a young
person, seemingly by her crying; one said, Come along,
you b—h, you are drunk; the other said, How drunk the
b—h is! and made a sort of a laugh; but she seemed
unwilling to go. By his light he could see them, one got
over t :e style, and the other laid hold of one of her legs,
or both, and lifted them over, so that she came down up-
right ; she hung back and fell on her breech on the step of
the style, and set out a fresh cry bitterly, as though she
would go no further ; that he went nearer them, expecting
she would speak to him ; but there being two men, andhe-
ftlone, he did not think it safe to interpose ; that the one
pulled her, and the other jostled her along, and so they
took her out of sight towards Enfield.
Thomas Bennet deposed, He lives at Enfield, near the
ten miles stone ; and on the 29th of January 175.3, be-
tween four and five in the afternoon, between Mother
Wells’s. and his own house, he saw a miserable poor
wretch coming along, without either gown, stays, cap,
hat, or apron on, only a dirty thing, like half a handker-
chief, over her head, and a piece of something on, that
reached down just below her waist, with her hands lying
together before her ; she asked him the way to London.
David Dyer deposed, He lived at Enfield Wash; that
about a quarter of a mile from Mother Wells’s house, to-
wards London, at four in the afternoon, three evenings
before Mother Wells and her family were taken up, he
saw a poor distressed creature pass by him, out of the
common field ; he said to her, Sweetheart, do you want a
busband ? She made no answer ; she had a thing tied
over