A narrative of the seizure & confinement of Ann Brookhouse ; who was assaulted in one of the streets of London, and carried off by two hired ruffians, May 7, 1798, and detained in close imprisonment, till August 25, following; as related by herself / Written by a friend.

  • Brookhouse, Ann.
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[1807]
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Credit: A narrative of the seizure & confinement of Ann Brookhouse ; who was assaulted in one of the streets of London, and carried off by two hired ruffians, May 7, 1798, and detained in close imprisonment, till August 25, following; as related by herself / Written by a friend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    (tii) Sep. 8. As my health was ferlouny impaired, and as quiet, and change of air were ftrongly re- commended as abfolately and immediately necef- fary, and as it appeared to be the general opinion, that nothing m.ore was to be hoped for, from a longer continuance in London—it v»^as now refolved to relinquifh all further attempts; and—after leav- ing dire8:ions with a friend, to write a letter of thanks to Mr. Bond, with an explanation of our reafons for declining to give him any further trouble — I fet out, with one of my brothers, for Bath; whence we afterwards proceeded to War- wick— where in the retirement of the country, wdth the kind afliduities of fraternal and fifterly af- fePcion, I have reafon to hope, that my healtli will, in a little time, recover from that dreadful fliock it has fuilained. SUCH is the extraordinary ftory of the wrongs I have fufFered, from lawlefs violence and wickednefs; and fuch is the almoil equally extra- ordinary account of that unexpeQed and powerful