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Informations taken this Twenty first
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Mrs. Dawes in
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on her Oath saith
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That last Night about Ten o'Clock this Dept.
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had occasion to go to the Necessary House in
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the Cellar of Mrs. Dawes's House, and was
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immediately followed by a Girl who is
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Apprentice to Mrs. Dawes, Says that the Girl
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had a lighted Candle which she put upon
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in the Necessary, and on Dept.
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asking her why she did so, the Girl Answered
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that she had been lately bit by a Cat in the
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Vault, and on the Girl looking down the
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and Dept, there upon saw the Male Child now
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produced, upon the Soil in the Vault, there
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the Neighbours down Stairs, who likewise
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young Woman in the Presence of Dept.
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and Several Others took the Deced out of
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the Soil, that the Child was dead, and was
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afterwards Washed Says that the Door of
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of the House is open all day and any Person who
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Hannah Good brand
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her
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