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St Mary lebon 18th of May 1781</p>
<p n="796">Touching the death of A New born Male infant then &<lb></lb>
there lying dead</p>
<p n="797"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n797-1">Sarah Tupman</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ151">wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n797-2">Wm. Tupman</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo485">Glass<lb></lb>
House Street</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
her Oath says she is A Midwife that she was sent for<lb></lb>
to attend at the House of £d Carrisford that she<lb></lb>
Imediatly there attended & was introduced to Lady Carysford<lb></lb>
who informed her that one of her Maid Servants was ill<lb></lb>
She suspected A Miscarriage that she was showd into<lb></lb>
A Bed room where <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n797-4">Elizth Harris</rs>
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was lying on A Bed<lb></lb>
that she found the room very Bloody that she put her into<lb></lb>
Bed & then Charged her with having been delivered of a<lb></lb>
Child or a Miscarriage to which she denyed & said no<lb></lb>
She insisted on knowing & after some little time she<lb></lb>
pointed to the bed & gave a Cry of A Box that she opend<lb></lb>
the Box and there found A Male Child which from the<lb></lb>
best of her Judgment appears to have been been Alive<lb></lb>
that She lifted up the Head and saw A Caye Wound under the<lb></lb>
throat; that She found a pair of Sessions in the Box lying<lb></lb>
by the infant which was blood & that on Asking her what<lb></lb>
She did with those Sessions she said the child was in tangled<lb></lb>
that in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Endeavoring to Extricate the infant the Wound<lb></lb>
had happend</p>
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