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beenhave beenvery lately delivered of a Child there
being all the Appearances of it in the Bed & Dept.
took from her the After burthen: says she told sd.
Hayward that the believed it must have been a
full [..] grown Child & asked her what she had
done, with it but she made no Answer that she examined
the Necessary & found the Seat & Floor very bloody.

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

Sarah Smith< no role >

Martha< no role > ( [..] the Wife of John Clark< no role > of Skinnore
Street in the Parish of St. Bottolph Bishopsgate
Watchmaker ) a Patient in St. Bartholomew's
Hospital maketh Oath saith that on the 28th. of
Octor. last Dept. who lies in a Bed opposite to
Haywood's Bed in the same Ward went to her Bedside and askedas
Haywood
her how she did who answered she was
very bad and complained much of her Bowells;
thatsometimesoon after this, that is to say, between
8 or 9 in the Evening Dept. saw Mary Evans< no role > the
nurse Card her from the Necessary to tied, that she
was put in to Bed, that the Sister Nurse declared
they thought there was something more then common & sent
for a Mid wife who soon afterwards came there
with the Sister & the Nurse examined Haywood,
and [..] the Midwife declared she had been
brought to Bed of a Child that Dept. saw the
Necessary soon after & the Seat of it & the Floor
all which were very bloody.

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

Tho: Beach< no role > Corr.

Martha Clark< no role >
Mary< no role > (the Wife of Thomas Thorpe< no role > of [..] Sun
Street in Bishopsgate Street Farrier ) a Patient in St.
Bartholomew's Hospital maketh Oath & saith that abt.
a Quarter of an Hour after 8 o Clock of the 28th. of Octor. last
Dept. being a Patient in the same Ward withMary Anne
Hayward
< no role > she saw [..] sd. Haywood [..] get out of her Bed
having on only her Street Underpetticoat Bed Gown & Shoes and
go to the Necessary where she continued longer as Dept.
thought them ususal, on [..] the Sister on and the Nurse to
fetch her out which she did & put her to Bed; that the nurse
then went to the Sister & told her the believed there was something
more then ordinary on with the Sister went to her asked her




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