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<p n="38">The Several Informations of<del>Sarah</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n38-1">Susannah Dorwood</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n38-2">Jane Dudman</rs>
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taker<lb></lb>
& acknowledged on behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King touching the Death of a<lb></lb>
Female Instant at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo30">Paddington</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ6">Coffee house</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo31">Parish of Paddington</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo32">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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on the ninth day of April 1760 on View of the Body of the said Female<lb></lb>
Intant on an Inquisition then & there taken<del>on View</del>
before me <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n38-3">George Grew</rs>
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One Coroner<lb></lb>
as follows.</p>
<p n="39"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n39-1">Susannah Dorwood</rs>
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wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n39-2">Richard Dorwood</rs>
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of the Town of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo33">Paddington</rs>
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Labour Says on Tuesday the eighth Day of Aprill<lb></lb>
1760. Deponent was sent for by Mrs Deadman of the<del>sd</del>
before and<lb></lb>
Town who suspected that a Woman who is called <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n39-3">Ann Hullock</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Servant to a Lodger in Mrs Deadmans House was that Morning brought to bed:<del>of</del>
and desired this Deponent<lb></lb>
would go to the Vault or Necessay house to look if she could see<lb></lb>
any Child or the Appearance thereof; Deponent did look, and in<lb></lb>
the said vault did see the foot of a Child, and then told Mrs Deadman<lb></lb>
that She this Depont. has discovered the Child: Then this Depont. went<lb></lb>
up two Pair of Stairs to the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n39-4">Ann Hullock</rs>
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& said Hanny how<lb></lb>
came you to be so wicked to throw yr. Child into the Vault, who<lb></lb>
said She did not know what to do with It: Then Deponent advised Mrs<lb></lb>
Deadman that the Child Should be taken out of the Vault before the<lb></lb>
Body should be viewed by a Jury & Mrs Deadman ordered Deponent to<lb></lb>
take the Intant Body out; which she did, wch Infant proved to be a<lb></lb>
Female, and when so taken out of the Vault & said on the floor<lb></lb>
in the Vault, on Examining the Body the Head appeared to be Severed<lb></lb>
from the Body all but a Small Skinn at the Back of the Rock<lb></lb>
And says that<del>after</del>
going upstairs again to sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n39-5">Ann Hullock</rs>
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& after<lb></lb>
discover with her found where a Knife was with<del>with</del>
wch the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n39-6">Ann<lb></lb>
Hullock</rs>
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owned, she had cut off her Infants Head</p>
<p n="40">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n40-1">Susanna Dorwood</rs>
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