London

Informations taken upon
an Inquisition on View of
the Body of a New born Male
Child lying dead at Saint
Bartholomew's Hospital in
the Parish of Saint Bartholomew
the less in the Ward of Farringdon
without London before Thomas
Beach< no role > Esqr. his Majesty's
Coroner for the City of London ,
the 3d. November 1762 .

Susannah Gillis< no role > Widow Sister to Dyebt's Ward in
St. Bartholomew Hospital maketh oath & saith
that on Thursday the 28th29thof Octor. last >Anne
Haywood< no role > This name instance is in set 694. This set is in the group(s): MothersOBP . a Patient in the sd. Wardhighhaving been
at the necessaryHouse ofsd. Ward some time between 8 & 9
in the Evening Dept. [..] sent Mary Evans< no role >
the Nurse to her who returned with her from
thence to her Bed: that sd. Mary Evans< no role > told
Dept. there was something more then usual and
therefore desired Dept. to go to sd. Haywood which
Dept. did and asked her what she had been doing
of who [..] that the Medicines she had
taken had thrown her into that Condition; says [..]
that from what she had observed in sd. Haywood's Bed
she suspected she had been delivered of a Child and
taxed her with it; brot sd. Haywood said she knew
nothing of it; that Sarah Smith< no role > a Midwife
presently afterwards came & examined her and
declared in her opinion there must have been a Child
the next day Dept. acquainted the Steward of sd. Hospital
whowith what had happened upon which the sd.
Necessary was soon afterwards opened & searched
and as Dept. hath been informed & believes a new
born Male Infant was bound there [..] , Says that
immediately after [..] shehadexamined the Bed, Dept. went
to the Necessary and found the Seat & the Floor very bloody
that she told sd. Hayes and of it but she denied that the [..]
anything of it

Sworn the 3d. day of Novr. 1762
before me}
Tho: Beach< no role > Corr.

The of Mark
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Susanna Gillis< no role >