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other times not once in three days. She was taken out of the box, 
and 'twas imagined could not get in again, but on the constables 
sending for bread and cheese, and promising she should have it if 
she got in, she kneeled on a brick, rolled herself over the edge into 
the box, and eat it very greedily. They also found in the same 
house Hannah Bogers, about 23 years of age, naked except a small 
piece of rug round her middle, big with child, who lay upon sViav- 
ings without any covering except vermin. She declares she had 
been in the house near 12 weeks, and notwithstanding for one-third 
part of that time she was all day long in the same room, yet she 
knew not what was in the box. When she came first to the house 
she had two changes of apparel and sixteen shillings in money, of 
which she was soon stripped by the mistress of the house and her 
daughter. She was promised her clothes from time to time to go 
out to swear to the father of the child, but instead of that 'tis since 
found these wretches had bespoke a small coffin, but for what 
purpose is not yet known, unless to receive the infant as soon as 
born. They are both taken proper care of in St. Peter's Hospital. 
Bogers has swore the child ; and 'tis said the cruelty exercised on 
her was to force her to swear it to an innocent person. The mother 
and daughter (the latter of whom endeavour'd to make her escape) 
are both now in custody ; and 'tis thought if Bryant ever recovers, 
a most horrid scene of iniquity will be laid open. The surgeons 
give it as their opinion that she has not been debauch'd : but 'tis 
supposed that, being well cloathed when first she went to lodge 
there, which was eighteen months ago, was stripped and kept in 
that barbarous manner to prevent their being punish'd by her 
friends, she being an orphan, though brought up by the Quakers in 
this city." 
June 20th: — 
"Mary Langford, the person charged with having kept Jane 
Bryan confined in a box some months past, has discovered where 
said Bryan's clothes were pawned to the amount of several pounds, 
rwhich are since redeemed." 
September 26fch : — 
"At the Bristol Quarter Sessions, September 21, Sarah Lankford, 
for assaulting, confining naked in a box, and starving Jane Bryant, 
as mentioned in a former paper, was found guilty and sentenced to 
pay a fine of thirteen shillings and four pence, and to suffer twelve 
months' imprisonment. Her daughter was tried for stealing part of 
the Avearing apparel, but for want of sufficient evidence, acquitted. 
Separate accounts are given in " Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 
