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LEGENDARY ACCOUNTS OF ADAM. 
A committee was formed of the neighbouring clergymen and magis- 
trates, who met on Tuesday, the 20th of April, 1813 ; and the time 
it was determined she should be watched was fixed at one month, to 
which she at last was obliged to assent. 
H er bed was filled with chaff, and the clothes examined in the pre- 
sence of the committee. The watch entered on their office at two 
o’clock on Wednesday. She received the watch with as much good 
manners as she was capable of, though she had been crying bitterly 
before they came. The first watch, which continued four hours, was 
begun by Sir Oswald Mosley and the Rev. Legh Richmond, and 
followed by several other gentlemen. At the end of seven days, the 
public was informed that she had during that time taken no food 
whatever. Great confidence was now expressed by her advocates 
that she w'ould endure the ordeal with credit. But when the machine 
for weighing her was put under the bed, it was found that she lost 
weight rapidly. At last, on the ninth day, she insisted upon the 
watches quitting the room, declaring that she was very ill, and that 
her daughter must be sent for. She was now greatly reduced, and 
the watches who attended her were much alarmed lest she should 
expire, and, apprehensive of being implicated in the charge of murder, 
they quitted the room, and admitted the daughter, who administered 
what she thought proper, when the mother began to recover. 
One remarkable circumstance was, that on Friday, the thirtieth of 
April, after the watch broke up, she desired to take a solemn oath 
that she had not, during the time she was watched, taken any food 
whatever; which oath was administered unto her. This she did in 
hope, notwithstanding all, still to impose upon the public. But as 
her clothes gave evidence against her, to her utter confusion, she was 
brought at last to make the following confession : 
“I, Anne Moore, of Tutbury, humbly asking pardon of all persons 
whom I have attempted to deceive and impose upon, and, above all, 
with the most unfeigned sorrow and contrition, imploring the divine 
mercy and forgiveness of that God whom I have greatly ofl’ended, do 
most solemnly declare, that I have occasionally taken sustenance for 
the last six years. 
“ Witness my hand, this fourth day of May, 1813. 
The mark of Anne Moore.” 
“ The above declaration of Anne Moore, was made before me, one 
of his Majesty’s justices of the peace for the county of Stafford, 
“Thomas Lister.” 
“Witness of the above declaration and signature of my mother Anne 
Moore, — “Mary Moore.” 
This impostor was committed to prison, February 1816, for falsely 
collecting money under the pretence of charity. After her liberation, 
she left Tutbury, and is since dead. 
