 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1802 - 438 pages
...came and stole her husband from her ; but, since then, she had no bed to lie on ; nothing to give her children to eat ; and they were almost naked ; and...something •wrong, for she hardly knew what she did." The parishofficers testified the truth of this story; but, it seems, there had been a,g6od deal of shop-lifting'.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...came and stole her husband from her ; but, since then she had no bed to lie on ; nothing to give her children to eat ; and they were almost naked : and...truth of this story ; but it seems there had been a good deal of shop-lifting about Ludgate; an example was thought necessary ; and this woman was hanged... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1812 - 494 pages
...came and stole her husband from her ; but since then, she had no bed to lie on ; nothing to give her children to eat ; and they were almost naked ; and...truth of this story ; but it seems, there had been a good deal of shoplifting about Ludgate : an example was thought necessary ; and this woman was hanged... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...but, since then, she had no bed to lie on; nothing to give her children to eat; and they were ahuost naked; and perhaps she might have done something wrong,...truth of this story; but it seems, there had been a good deal of shoplifting about Ludgate; an example was thought 'necessary; and this woman was hanged... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1814 - 736 pages
...came and stole her husband from her; but, since then, she had no bed to lie on ; nothing to give her children to eat ; and they were almost naked ; and...truth of this story ; but, it seems, there had been a good deal of shoplifting about Ludgate ; an example was thought necessary, and this woman was hanged... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1819 - 574 pages
...came and stole her husband from her; but since then, she had no bed to lie on; nothing to give her children to eat; and they were almost naked; and perhaps...knew what she did.' The parish officers testified to the trulh of this story; but it seems, there had been a good deal of shop-lifting about Ludgate;... | |
 | 1820 - 562 pages
...since then, she had no hed to ' lie on ; nothing to give her children to eat ; and they were al' most naked ; and perhaps she might have done something...knew what she did." The parish officers testified ' to the truth of this story ; but it seems, there had heen a good ' deal of shop-lifting about Ludgate... | |
 | 1832 - 508 pages
...came and stole her hnshand from her; hut since then, she had no hed to lie on; nothing to give her children to eat; and they were almost naked ; and...parish officers testified the truth of this story; hut it seems, there had heen a good deal of shoplifting ahout Ludgate: an example was thought necessary;... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1832 - 824 pages
...came and stole her husband from her ; but since then she had no bed to lie on, nothing to give her children to eat, and they were almost naked,-' and...something wrong, for she hardly knew what she did. Ttie parish officers testified to the truth of this story. But it seems there had been a good deal... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 1028 pages
...bed to lie on, nothing to give her children to eat, and they were almost naked : and perhaps •he might have done something wrong, for she hardly knew what she did." The parish officers testified to the truth of this story, but it seems there had been a good deal of shoplifting about Ludgate ;... | |
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Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), 'that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a pressgang came and stole her husband from her; but, since then, she had no bed to lie on; nothing to give her children to eat; and they were... 
