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<p n="3133"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3133-1">Elisabeth Steel</rs>
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Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3133-2">Randall Steel</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2166">Leicester</rs>
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Street No. 19,<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2167">St. James</rs>
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Westmr. Green <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ762">Grocer</rs>
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on her Oath saith, That she was sent for<lb></lb>
yesterday about three in the Afternoon by Mr. Sawyer at the three Blue<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Posts Edward Street to come to the Maid Servant, Deponent came, and<lb></lb>
from what she saw, asked her what she had done with the Child and she<lb></lb>
said she never had one, Deponent said there must be something We are<lb></lb>
all Woman a like and you had better say as it may be the occasion of saving<lb></lb>
your life and the Child's tooDeponent stopped her Head down to her<lb></lb>
and said nothing shall be done to You if You will but confess for there<lb></lb>
must be a Child some where, she then said she had delivered herself<lb></lb>
and the Child was on the Bedstead and she would find it there, Deponent<lb></lb>
fund it wrapped up in a white Apron, and put the Child in a<del>the</del>
Chair,<lb></lb>
Mrs. <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ763">Sawyer</rs>
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and another Woman was in the Room at the same time<lb></lb>
When the Woman went down Stairs and she was left in the Room<lb></lb>
with the Maid, she asked her why she did not send for her in time<lb></lb>
that she might have had proper assistance, she replied she was<lb></lb>
ashamed for to own it she had no Body to send, and that Deponent<lb></lb>
then said I hope you have, not done any thing that was wrong, she<lb></lb>
declared that the Child was Dead Born and never cryed in this<lb></lb>
WorldDeponent asked her if there was any Clothes for the<lb></lb>
Child she said there was a Shirt and a Caport<obscured></obscured>
and said<lb></lb>
she would find them in the Draws which Deponent did finding<lb></lb>
a Shirt and two Caps</p>
<p n="3134">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3134-1">Elisabeth Steel</rs>
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<p n="3135"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3135-1">Thomas Williams</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2168">Broad Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2169">St. James</rs>
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Westmr. <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ764">Surgeon</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
Man Midwife on his Oath saith, That yesterday in the Afternoon<lb></lb>
he was sent for by the Parish Officers of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2170">St. James Westmr</rs>
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. to look at<lb></lb>
a Child lying Dead at the three blue Posts Public House the corner<lb></lb>
of Edward Street in the same Parish, and on his coming he saw the<lb></lb>
Woman and asked her how long she had been brought to Bed, she<lb></lb>
said in the Morning about ten o'Clock Deponent asked if any Body</p>
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