City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1787 - 29th December 1787

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in St. George's Hospital , and used to go there every Friday
afterwards for Medicines which she took, she told Deponent
that Doctor Ford at the Hospital had said she would be in as
much Pain as a Lying Inn Woman before she would be better
and desired she would take care not to get ColdLast Friday
three Weeks she was taken words and Complained of being
full of Pain and went to Bed in the afternoon where she
staid until the next Day in the AfternoonDeponent alway
slept with Mary Westmacott and went to Bed to her on
Friday night, when she found that Mary Westmacott had
had a very great Discharge in the Bed, which she attributed
to Mary Westmacott not having had any Discharge for many
Months, but she neither saw nor heard any Child, nor did [..]
the least suspect Mary Westmacott's being with Child Mary
Westmacott came down as usual every Day but did not do any
work for a few Days her Mistress being afraid she might get cold and provided
a Woman to do the Work, that Mary Westmacott from that
time continued to do her work until last Saturday might
when a Male Child was found in the Privy of Mr Robinson's
House, and Mary Westmacott was then suspected to have
been privately Delivered of the said Child and was taken into
Custody and Conveyed to the Watch House of St. George's Parish

Deponet says that about a Week ago, she saw something
on the Breast of a Shift which Mary Westmacott< no role > has pulled
off and left in her Bed, which Deponent thought to be
Milk and she told Mary Westmacott of it who said it
was only soft [..] Pomatum which Doctor Ford had directed
her to useDeponent says that the appearances she saw
in the Bed did not lead her to suspect that Mary Wesmacott< no role >
had been Delivered of a Child and attributed them to Natural
Causes having been present at several LaboursDeponent
Says that Thomas Tunmer< no role > Mr Robinson's Footman found
the Child on Saturday Night in the Privy.

Jane Pullings< no role >

Thomas Turner< no role > Footman to Mr. Robinson on his Oath Saith
that he has lived Servant there Three Years and a half, that
about a Week or ten Days ago, he thought that his Fellow
Servant Mary Westmacott< no role > did not look so big as she did
sometimes before she was Ill, and he suspected she had been
Delivered of a Child, and on Saturday night last the 27th. Inst.
he went to Search the Privy and after putting down a Stick
of about three feet long in two or three times he lifted up the
Arm of a Child, the Child lay in the Soil near the Surface
Deponent then went and acquainted Jane Pullinger his other
fellow Servant who come and held a Candle and Deponent




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