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The Information of
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of the Same, taken before me this 20th. Day of March 1760
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Mary Mills
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being upon Oath says that she came to live with the Right Honble. the Lord
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Egremont about the 4th. of Febry last at
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in the
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County of Sussex
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, that she lay
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with one Ann Kepell a fellow Sowant,
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of this Informants, that
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during the him
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that she lay after be Tax'd with being with Child, but always Strongly Denyed it,
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and said it was nothing but a Swelling she had which the Family was Subject to, and
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that her Father Dyed of it, Says that the Family came out of Sussex about three Weeks
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aged, that soon afterwards this Informt. absorved that the said Ann Keppell was Smaller in
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the Waste that she had been, could not tell the meaning of it, but by taking Notice
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of the Bad where she lay, made
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beleive that she had
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delivered of a
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Ann Summers
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being upon Oath Says, that she has since Ann Kepell came to Town observed
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her to be bigg with Child, that soon afterwards this Informt. perceived her to be Smatter
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in the Waste, and accordingly acquainted My Lady with what she had observed, that my
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Lady sent this Informt. for a Midwife, that as soon as the Midwife came into My Lady
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Dressing Room, the said
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Ann Kepell
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was ordered to come up Stains, to Says that she was present when my
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Lord asked the said Ann Kepell whether she had a Child or not, to which she answered
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No, Upon which she was ordered to go up Stairs with the Midwife and three of
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the Maid Servants to be Examined, and whilct they were going up Stains, the said ann
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Kepell all of a Sudden Stept, and said that they need not give themselves any more
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trouble that it was,
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so, to which the Midwife said to her you have had a Child which
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she Answered Yes, Says that thereupon My Lady asked her where she had put it, she
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told My Lady in a Pond in the Park, and this Informt. further says that the said
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was soon afterwards Carryed before Mr. Justice Fielding in order to be
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Examined, that upon her Examination she Confess'd in the presence and hearing of
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this Informt. that the Child was in Lock'd up in a Box in the Leullery and accordingly
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Delivered the Key to this Informt. where she found the Child all patisfyed
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Says that she likewise Confess'd it had been
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in the Box near afortonight, and that it was borndead,
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Sworn before me this
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20th. Day of March 1760}
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