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<p n="307">Says that immediately on finding the dead Child<lb></lb>
the said to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15075_n307-1">Martha & Hurst</rs>
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, have could you deny<lb></lb>
it meaning how she could deny having been<lb></lb>
brought to Bed of a Child, to which she are wered,<lb></lb>
that indeed it was dead born at 5 of the Clock<lb></lb>
on Sunday Afternoon, that she was delivered<lb></lb>
by herself and that it full into the Pott, meaning<lb></lb>
the Chamber Pot, all which Dept. acquainted<lb></lb>
Mrs. Quinsoy with and further knows not.</p>
<p n="308">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15075_date71">24th. day of July<lb></lb>
1764</rs>
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before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15075_n308-1">Tho: Beach</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15075_occ149">Corr.</rs>
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</p>
<p n="309">of<lb></lb>
The<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Mark<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15075_n309-1">Anne Munday</rs>
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<p n="310"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15075_n310-1">Sarah Quinsoy</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15075_geo247">Old Bethlem</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15075_occ150">Widow</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath and saith that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15075_n310-2">Martha Hurst</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
live with Dept. as a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15075_occ151">Servant</rs>
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about three Months<lb></lb>
ago, that last Thursday the said Hurst<lb></lb>
seemed not to be any well but did her Business<lb></lb>
as usual, that she was not apparently worse<lb></lb>
till last Sunday when she kept her Room<lb></lb>
that Dept after the Evening Suspire of that day went into her room and<del>they</del>
asked her what her Actment<lb></lb>
was who answered that she had pains in her<lb></lb>
Bowells, that Dept. abt. 7 o'Clock the same<lb></lb>
Evening went up again to her when she was<lb></lb>
in Bed and<del>seemed to</del>
told Dept.<del>to be</del>
& he was better:<del>that she<lb></lb>
appointed to be</del>
but seemed to Dept. to be very<lb></lb>
faint and Low; that Dept. then suspected that<lb></lb>
she had miscarried or had been delivered of a<lb></lb>
child, but perceving her to be very weak & ill<lb></lb>
thought it not a seasonable time to tax her<lb></lb>
with it, and the reasons of her Suspicion<lb></lb>
were grounded on her having looked into<lb></lb>
the Bed and discovered all the marks of a<lb></lb>
Womans being delivered of a Child; that Dept.<lb></lb>
took several Bloody Cloths from her & gave her<lb></lb>
clean over in<del>the</del>
their Room, that Dept. also saw<lb></lb>
sevl. Clods of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15075_geo248">Blood</rs>
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in the Bed & some on the Hon<lb></lb>
that Dept. was with her<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
backwards & forwards till<lb></lb>
12 at night when Dept. went to Bed & laid in Bed</p>
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