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The Informacon of
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in ye County of Middx
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Currier
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upon oath before Us Two of her Maties:
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Justices of ye Peaci
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for ye so County
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This Informt: Saith That abt: Six weeks ago she was informed by eltarg ye wife of
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A Child between
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Ten
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years old had got of French Pox, & the sd
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Mary Robinson
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her sd Daughter
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& to examine
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who gave her ye sd Disease, whereupon this Exaiate did view the
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Childs privy parts, & found that the Child was in a very bad
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& that after Some persuasions the sd Child did
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Exaiate that one
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in the
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Parish aforesd in is house as well the sd
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Lodgers
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Child going into ye sd Garrit, ye sd
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put his hands up her,
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Coats, & then laid her upon A Bed, & turn'd up her Coats, & then let down
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his Own Breeches & lay down upon her, & put some thing
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into her before; but
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that shee Know not what it was; That this Informt: then askt ye sd Child if
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ye sd
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had over done ye same thing to her at any of her time, to
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wch. ye sd Child reply'd that hee once calld her up into ye sd Garret, but
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that shee prsontly ran down Stairs, & this Informt asking her why shee
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did so, Shee reply'd becaus shee know what
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And ye sd
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Child further told this Informt: That ye sd
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did
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also one time lie wth her upon the Stairs in ye sd house, & that this Informt:
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very much pressing ye sd Child to
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consisse whether over any
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Man else had lain wth:
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her Shee reply'd that no Man had ever lain wth her Except ye
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Coram Nobis
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Jos: Shord
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