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