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Informations of Witnesses severally
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taken & acknowledged ten twenty worth
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day of May 1795 in the thirty fifth Year of the Reign of our
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Sovereign Lord George the Third at the Dwelling House of
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to empty a cesspool on the 27 May 1795 at Mr.
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up the said female Child pinned up in
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leinen Cloth they opened the saint Cloath Laten
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they were satisfied what it was
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came there or cane to its Death.
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reason to suspect how & by what means the
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Sd. Child came into the cesspool. the st Child says
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that the Child appeared to him the perfect.
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