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Informations taken this Thirtieth
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lying dead in the said Parish Liberty
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on her Oath saith That Mr. Littlewood a
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Lodger in the same House, about three o'Clock in
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the Morning of one Day in the Week before
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Christmas, last came to Dept. Room, desiring
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her to come down to a Woman's Labour
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in her Room, Says that she went and the
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Woman was soon Delivered of a Male Child,
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who appeared to be well and healthy,
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Says that she saw the Child the next day
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when it looked very well Says that two
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or three days before the Child was Christened
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Mrs. Littlewood called Dept. into her Room to
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skew her the Child who then appeared to be
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much altered and Dept. then thought that
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the Child would die, Mrs. Littlewood saying
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that it had the Wakry Gripes, Says that
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she carried the Child on Christmas Day to
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to be Christened Mrs.
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then very ill and Dept. thought it would
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die before they returned home, Says that
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on Sunday Morning last (the twenty eighth
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Instant Dept. in going down Stairs asked
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Mrs. Littlewood how the Child was, when she
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informed Dept. that the Child died the Night
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before about Seven o'Clock, Says that she does
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not know of any thing being given or done to the
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Child to came its Death, and believes that
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the Child died in a natural Way.
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