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Fire, That she called up her Fellow Servant and
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asked King what was burning, to which she made
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no Answer, Says that she went for a Coach and when
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Margaret King
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told her (as she had
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declared before to her Fellow Servant) That she had
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been brought to Bed of a dead Child and begged they
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would take no Notice of it and that the Child was
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in a Box up Stairs
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and that it was dead born,
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says that KingThat she had been out the Bay before to get a Lodging, & that she did notinland
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thing to the Child of that
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alive the Coach to
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and returned
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with the Fairrhy to Town on Tuesday (Decr. 3d.) when
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Mr. Hudson was acquainted therewith, and the
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Child was found in King's Room but Dept. did not
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see it.
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Hannah Carnall
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Mary Cowlin
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Cook to Mr. Hudson on her Oath saith
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that she has lived there about four Years, That
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she did not suspect that
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the
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Nursery
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Maid was with Child, That last Sunday
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Morning Hannah Carnall told Dept. That she smelt
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something burning in the Nursery Fire, Says that
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she went up and saw some Flashy Substance which
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has fellow Servant took out of the Fire, but King
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did not tel them what it was, Says that King soon
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come down Stairs and told Dept. that she had been
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delivered of a dead Child, and that it was dead born
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and that the Child was upStairs in a Box, That she
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had been out on Saturday to take a Lodging, and that she had
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spoke to a Woman to Nurse it, if it had been
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alive, Says that King than went away in a
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Coach to
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to the Family. Says that she did
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not hear any Noise in Kings & Room on Saturday
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Night.
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Mary Cowling
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Jane
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the
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of
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Alexander Ross
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of Hodge Lane
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Green Grocer on her Oath saith, That on Saturday
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last in the Afternoon Dept. was going home and
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at the corner of
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a Woman well
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dressed
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beckoned to
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her saying that she wonted
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a Lodging, to which Dept. answered that she
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had one in a Cellar but thought it not good
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enough for her, the Woman however went
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with Dept. into the Cellar saying that she was
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in distress for a Lodging, that she lived in
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a
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Gentleman
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's
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Family, and that she would
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be received if it was known, That she was
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with Child and would not mind giving
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Twenty Pounds to keep it secret, That she
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enquired for a Midwife, and that one was
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fitched, who said that the Woman was not
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in Labour, And says that the Woman
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agreed that Depts. Daughter should Nurse her
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Child, Says that the Woman declared that
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the Man who lay in the next Room to her
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was the Father of the Child, Says that the
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Woman staid there about three Years and
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then went away.
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Severally Sworn the
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Day Years and Place-
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abovementioned before me
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Tho. Prickard
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Coror
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Jane Ross
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