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2nd November 1761 - 15th December 1762

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Image 71 of 1203rd November 1762


Mary Evans< no role > [..] Widow the Nurse belonging to
Dyebt'sHospWard in St. Bartholomew's Hospital
maketh Oath & saith that on the 28th. of Octor last
about a Quarter of an Hour after 8 in the Evening
Susannah Gillis< no role > the Sister of sd. Ward desired Dept.
to go to the Necessarytoand see after Anne Haywood< no role > This name instance is in set 694. This set is in the group(s): MothersOBP .
who had been there longer then usual; that she went
there & asked Haywood how she found herself who
made Answer that she was very bad, on wch Dept.
desired her to come from thence and go to Bed last she
shod. get cold; that Hayes and said she was in so much
pain that she could not themget ofquit her Seat,
that Dept. then acquainted the Sister with what she
said who desired Dept. to go there again & oblige
Hayward to come out, wch Dept. did & assisted her
to her Bed; that Dept.thenimmediately then
examined the Necessary & found the Seat & Floor
to be very Bloody from which he this Dept. conjectured that
there was something more then common and on
Depts. directly examining the place again she
[..] concluded that sd. Haywood must have been
brought to Bed of a Child. Says she acquainted the
Sister with what she had seen, [..] that [..] [..]
in Depts. presenceof the Sistersread Haywood with
having been delivered of a Child which she answered
she knew nothing of the matter Says she was
present when the Sister examined Haywood's Bed
when it appeared in the Condition a Bed usual is
on a Woman's being delivered of a Child.

Sworn the 3d. day of Novr. 1762
before me}

Mary Evans< no role >

Thos. Beach Corr.
the Wife of Thomas

Sarah< no role > the wife of Thomas Smith< no role > of St. John's Court low Lane in the Parish
of St. Sepulchre in the County of Middlesex Barber
maketh Oath & saith that on Thursday the 28th. of Octor. last
abt. half an Hour after eight in the Evening Dept. was sent
for to Dyetts Ward in St. Bartholomew's Hospital to
examine a Patient there who was suspected to have
been delivered of a Child in the Necessary any there; that
Dept. immediately went there examined [..] the
Patient whose Name she hath been informed is Anne
Haywood
< no role > ; that Dept. discovered the sd. Haywood to have




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