372 Account of the Murder of Anne Nailor. voked, would fay, You are the ChickJane gbof remember the gully-hole in Chick-lane.dw Thefe obfcure hints made Rooker uneafy, and one day, after the mother was gone, he urged the girl so preffingly to tell what they meant, that, with many tears, and great reluctance, the gave him an account of the mur. der, begging, at the fame time, that it might be a fecret. As by this account the girl did not appear to be any otherways culpable than by concealing the mother's crime, and as MrRooker fuppofed also that the fact could not be proved without her evidence, he immediately wrote an account of what he had learnt, to the officers of the parish of TottenhamHigh-Crafs, by whom the deceased had been put out apprentice, that a profecution against the mother might be commenced. B into the gully-hole in Chick-line The conftable proved that all the corps, ekcept the hand was found there, and Rooker alfo depofed, that the children who lived with her when he lodged in her house were ill treated. The mother, in her defencej^alledged, that the deceased was fickly, and was therefore kept apart from the reft; that the had a fit, from which the was recovered by hartshorn drops, and that soon after the ran away. The daughter gave a long and circumftantial account of the whole tranfaction, but imputed all the guilt to the mother; the faid, that the night before the child died, the entreated her mother to fend her fome victuals, which the refufed with many oaths and execrations; that the, the daughter, did not tye her, nor know he was tyCed the faft morning that fie frequently gave the children victuals by Itealth, for which her mother, when the difcovered it, ufed to upbraid and to beat her; that after Nanny died, the urged the mother to have the body buried, which the mother refuted, calling her fool, and faying, That the body, upon view, would shew that the child bad been farved; that he urged her to affift in cutting it to pieces, which the refused; and used to thredten if ever the fpoke of it, that the would fwear first and become an evjdence against her; the alfo denied that the ever beat the children, and declared that the had fuffered much from the mother's cruelty, because the would not be the inftrument of it against them. In confequence of this letter, the parish-officers applied to Sir John Fielding, at whofe house they were met by Rooker and the daughter, and proper persons were fent to bring the mother and her apprentices before the Juftice. The D mother was foon brought, with Dowley and Hinchman, two of the girls who lived with her when the murder was committed: The daughter's examination was taken, which contained a very full, direct, and clear charge against the mother, who was therefore committed to New Prifon; the girls were fent for farther examina tion to the workhoufe of St George, Hanover Square, and the daughter was difmiffed But the mother and the apprentices being examined a fecond and third time, fome evidence came out which affected the daughter, who was therefore committed to the Gate boufe on the 5th of July. Bills of indictment were foon after found against both mother and daughter, and the evidence of the girls was thought fufficient to convict them both. On the 16th of July they were bro`t to their tryal at the feflions bonfe in the Old Bailey, when the two girls depofed, that the deceated was tied up and cruelly beaten by the daughter, and kept without victuals, till she died by the joint confent of both daughter and mother. Mr Rooker depofed, that the daughter related the circumstances of the murder to him as the had relared them in her examination, and told him, that the mutilated hand was burnt, and the rest of the body thrown If this, however, had been true, the girls, on whofe teftimony she was convicted, would have had no motive to F would have loved her in proportion as depofe against her; they neceffarily they hated the old woman; they could have no intereft in accung her, neither could they have had any inclination, G " and as They were, after a long tryal, both convicted and received fentence of death, but, even after this there continued fo bitter an animohty between them, that it was necellary to confine them apart. Both denied the charge conftantly and invariably, but with this difference; the mother declared the child was not ftarved, and the daughter deHclared the mother ftarved her; fo that though the daughter accused the mother, the mother did not accule the daughter. The daughter allò pleaded pregnancy 1 holis Account of a Koyage to India, A The daughter perfifted to the laft in B declaring herself innocent of all but concealing the murder, which the extenuated by laying, She thought it was ther duty. What could I do, fays the, it was my mother 4 She alfo folemnly declared that the had no criminal connection with any man, particularly with C Mr Rooker, whom yet he always mentioned rather as a friend than a masfter; and that tho' the pleaded pregnancy, it was only done as an expedient to gain a short refpite, not knowing that a jury would determine the fact immediately. This declaration has been confirmed by the testimony Lof fome perlons who were prefent at the diffection of her body; and it is faid, that, though a little woman, the was remarkably pretty, and had a form extremely delicate, and well probportioned. D The mother was executed in the E 44th, and the daughter in the 24th year of her age. alom sth ment "A brief Account of a Voyage to India, undertaken by M. Anquetil du Perton, to discover and tranflate the Works attributed to Zoroafter. This Account Of you Eraton lias dr up by M. Perron himself, F › from whofe Original, which was read before Royal Academy of Sciences, at Paris, in May laft, the following Tranflation is made. was ar TH HE religion and history of the sito Perfes are very interefting ob7jects of themselves, but they merit the -fattention of the learned ftill more by the connection which this people have shad with the Hebrews, the Greeks, the Indians, and perhaps even with the ylbineles but if we content ourselves with what the ancients have told us blofs them our knowledge will be very -fuperficials for a few paffages fcatJaffenes here and there in their writings, of them manifeftly dictated by resosan convey but a very imeas of their history and man ,, G 373 Thefe reflections engaged the learn ed Dr century about the end of the laft to attempt a deeper investigation of a fubject, which, till then, had been but fightly touched: He therefore applied himfelf with great diligence to read the works of Arabian and Perfian writers, from which, and from the relations of travellers,and a great number of letters,which he received from perfons who were fettled in India, he compiled his celebrated work on the religion of the Perfest This work, which abounds with Oriental learning, may be confidered as the only one that contains any thing curious and particular concerning the Perfes, though the principal fources which Hyde exhaufted are not of the firft antiquity; He cites in particular the Pharbangb Djebanguir, a celebrated dictionary, which, he fays, had been digelted about 200 years before his time by Ebn Fakhruddin Angjou, a Mahometan; he alfo cites many paffages from Virafnama and "Sadder, works pofterior to Zoroafter, of which he had leen only translations in modern Perfic. He was, however, poffeffed of two works in Zendothe Izefchne and the Neaefchs, and it was reasonable to expect that he would have tranflated thele rather than Sadder, or at least if he understood Zend, he ought to have fupported what he has advanced contrary to opinions generally received by the authority of thefe original pieces. It does not, however, appear, that he has done it, and M. the Abbay Foucher, in a differtation which is publifhed among the memoirs of the Academy, makes no fcruple to doubt Hyde's ability, notwithstanding his offer to give a correct edition of the Zendavefia, with a tranflation, if the publick would defray the expence of the undertaking. But however this be, the Perses have been little known, except by the enquiries of Dr Hyde; but, as he has contented himfelf with the mere mention of the Zendavefia, a general name for the works attributed to Zoroafter, without tranflating it, his work must be confidered as nothing more than an ellay. The best way would certainly Irave been to have confulted the Perfes themfelves, concerning their own reHligion, which was by no means im 374 Expedition to find and tranflate the Works of Zoroafter. practicable; a very numerous body offolved upon a voyage to India myfelf. them has been established more than In the year 1718, Mr George Bouchier, A long time after this, Mr Frafer, a Scots gentleman, who was one of the council in the English factory at Bombay, and author of a life of Thamas KouliKhan, went to Surat to fee what he could recover of the works attributed to Zoroafter, and he found means to purchale the efcbne, and the Jefchts, with many other Perfian and Indian manufcripts; but he could not prevail upon the priests to give him the key of the Zendavefla; fo that receiving but little fatisfaction from his journey, he returned to London, where fometime afterwards he died. Such are the attempts which have been made by the Englip to acquire and underitaad the works attributed to Zoroafter the rest of Europe have been content to reit implicitly in what has been done by Dr Hyde, without once conceiving a defign to learn languages, of which the learned themfelves fcarce know the names. This general neg ligence, with refpect to fo interefting A fubject, I always confidered with won der and regret, and, as length, re In 1754, I happened to fee a fram ment of the Fendidad Sade, which had been fent from England to M. Fourment, and I immediately refolved to enrich my country with that fingular work. I formed a defign of tranflating it, and of going with that view to learn the ancient Perfic in Guazarate or Kirman an undertaking which would neceffa rily enlarge the ideas I had already conceived, concerning the origin of languages, and the feveral changes to which they are fubject, and probably throw a light upon Oriental antiquity, which was unknown to the Greeks and Romans. I determined alfo, to obtain a knowledge of the religion of the Parles, from the Parles themselves, & knowing that the four Vedes, facred books of the Indians, were writen in the ancient Samfaretam, a dead language, fuppofed to be the common stock of which all the Indian languages are branches; and that there were books in the king's library which nobody understood, I was led to prefer India to Kirman, as I might there learn the ancient Perfian, and the ancient Samfkretam together. |