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indeed a Criminal, but Jesus the Saviour of Criminals
has had mercy upon me, and forgiven me my sins,
and this is the reason why
The whole Court was astonished,
his seat, and called her into an adjoining room, telling
her, that if she would say before the Court, she was out of
her mind, when she threw the Child into the river, he
would see to acquit her ---------- she thanked him, but
excused herself from complying with his kind proposal
it being against her conscience to [?] say so, adding that
she was very willing to die, for she knew for certain
that she should go and live with our dear Saviour.
Judge was amazed and disappointed
with her into Court, where he soon after pronounced
her Sentence which was, that she should be beheaded.
During the few weeks of her imprisonment, she
grew visible in grace and in confidence to our dr
Saviour, and was continually visited by Brn & Srs
who sung with her in the Ordinary's room, and
she got such an Idea and knowledge of the Brn's
Cong n that she might have been a very proper
Member of it. The Evening before her Execution, she
begged as a particular favor, that all her visitors
would come into the Ordinary's room, to keep a fare-
-well Lovefeast with her, which was done, she
desired to be permitted to serve at it herself which