told her, That a constable would come that day, with a warrant, for to carry her before a justice of peace, and she would be sent to jail. She asked them, if she should hide herself? They answered her, No she should fear nothing, but go with the constable. So she went with the constable to the justice, and he sent her to Bodmin jail, and ordered the prison-keeper that she should be kept without victuals; and she was so kept, and yet she lived, and that without complaining.... But poor Ann lay in jail for a considerable time after; and also justice Tregeagle, who was her great persecutor, kept her in his house some time, as a prisoner, and that without victuals: and, at last, when Ann was discharged out of prison, the justices made an order, that Ann should not live any more with my father. Whereupon, my fathers only sister, Mrs. Frances Tom, a widow, near Padstow, took Ann into her family, and there she lived a considerable time, and did many great eures: and from thence she went to live with her own brother; and, in process of time, married, as aforesaid.[1]
Here ends this singular narrative, which atheists
- ↑ Morgans Phenix Britannicus: London, 1732, 4to. p. 545.
