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Elizabeth Godfrey
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Charles Godfrey
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of Petty France
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Westmr. Green
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or her Oath saith That on Saturday
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Night last between Seven and eight o' Clock, Dept. being at
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home was told by a Soldier's Wife that a Child was laid
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at Mr. Timbury's Door, that she soon after went over to
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Mr. Timbury's Door and there saw several people about a Child, lying in a
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piece of Printed Linnen, which appeared to be Bloody
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Says that she put her hands upon the Child's Head which
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was quite Cold, and believes that the. Child was dead
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Elizabeth Godfrey
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Elizabeth Jagoe
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an Infant of the Age of Fourteen Years
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and upwards, living with Mr. Price a
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Coach maker
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Blew Anchor Yard
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Petty France
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Westmr. on her Oath saith
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That on Saturday last between four and five o' Clock in
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the Afternoon She saw a Woman (whose Name Dept. does
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not know) standing at the Door of a House in which she
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lodges in
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Blue Anchor Yard
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, who desired this Dept. to
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fetch her a Pint of Beer, from the Alehouse, which Dept.
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did, and gave it to her in a Corperal's Room on the
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Ground Floor in the same House, Says that the Woman
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Warmed the. Beer and put some Nutines therein, and
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drank it, after which the Woman complained of a
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pain around her Loyns, and seemed to be very uneasy
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and sat upon a Solder's Horse, Says that she staid there
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about half an hour, and then went away, Says that
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she stood in Blaw Anchor Yard the same Night about
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Seven o' Clock and saw the same Woman to whom she
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had carried the Beer come out of the House in which
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she lodged, with another woman dressed in a long
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Red Cardinal Woman without the Cardinal having a
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small Bundle that looked white in her Hands, but
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when she was come out threw her Apron over it, Says
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that they walked a few Yards together, and that the
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woman to whom Dept. fetched the Beer, gave the Bundle
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to the other Woman, who put her Cardinal over it,
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and
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and walked towards
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Queen Square
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, that she Crossed
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the Street at the Corner of the Broad Way and came
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back so far as Mr. Timbury's Door where she put down
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a Bundle, which looked like that she took from the
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other Woman, Says that the Woman gave two gentle
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Knocks at Mr. Timbury's Door and then walked on
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a little way further on that side of the Street, Crossed
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the Street and went in again to the House which she
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came out of in
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Blew Anchor Yard
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. Says that in a
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very few Minutes she heard a Child cry, and asked
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the Woman at the Milk Cellar if it was her Child that
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cryd, to which the Woman Answered that it was not,
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nor could this Dept. certainly say where the Cry came
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from, but believes it was on the opposite side of the way,
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and the cry of the Child in the Bundle at Mr. Timbury's
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Door, Says that Mrs. Godfrey was then at the Milk Celler
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and said that she heard a Child Cry and thought it must
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be over the Way, in the hearing of the Woman at the
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Milk Cellar, That Mr. Godfrey immediately went to
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Mr. Timbury's Door, and Dept. followed, that a
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Soldier
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came
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next with a Candle and was followed by Mrs. Cochran
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Says that Mrs. Godfrey opened the Linnen in which
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the Deced was Wrapt, and felt the Child's Head and
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said it was Warm, and Mrs. Cockran said the same,
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And the Dept. says that she has several times lately seen the Woman
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for whom she fetched the Beer last Saturday, that she
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appeared to be very big and Dept. thought her to be
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with Child, and said that a Woman who lodges in the
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same House lately told Dept. that she believed that Woman
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was with Child, Says that she saw the Woman
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yesterday in the same Room that she gave her the
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Beer in, on Saturday, and that she did not look so
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big as she did on Saturday.
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The Mark of
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Elizabeth Jagoe.
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Severally Sworn the Day
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Year & Place abovementioned
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before me}
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Tho. Richard
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