This entry reads:
"Ordered that the Prisoner be confined in the Common Gaol for this County for Fourteen days".

After serving her sentence in the County Gaol in Montgomery (which is shown in the photograph on the right), Mary would have found it very difficult to get a job anywhere.
If she could not work then she would have to appeal to the workhouse for help.

Many people coming out of gaol found that they had to choose between the workhouse or stealing again to survive.

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