Middlesex Sessions:
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October 1754

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She had occasion to go to the little House and then this Dept. perceives
She had put the Bed Linnen at the Wash house Door which
this Depont. examined and then told the saidSarah Martha Stokes< no role >
she would know the truth and she imediately Walked up
Stairs to bed and then declared she beleived She had
Mis carryed and Dept ask't her why She did not Let this
Depont seeth, and whether it was a live or Dead Miscarriage
and she then said it was a Dead Miscarriage And this Dept
Saith that She has seen the said Child since it was taken out
of the House of Office and says it was full grown Child and
beleives it was born alive and beleives the said Child was
born two and twenty hours before it was thrown down the
House of Office and that it was Smothered in the Bed

I. King

Sarah Flaggett< no role >

Sarah Spencer< no role > of Porters Block in the Parish of Saint
Sepulchres in the County of Middx Midwife being duly
Sworn upon her Oath Saith that She has been a Midwife for about
thirty Years did at the request of Mrs. Sarah Flaggett< no role >
attend on one Martha Stokes< no role > who had lately been delivered
of a Female Infant) on the twenty eight-day of September
last and found her at the Workhouse belonging to the said
Parish and then and there Delivered the said Martha Stokes< no role >
of the [..] after Birth and Saith that she afterwards
went to the House of the said Sarah Flaggett< no role > and said the
Body of the said Female Infant and saw No Marks of Violence
on the Body and beleives the said Child came into the
World in a fit and for want of help died And does not
beleive the said Child was Murdered

I. King

Sarah Spencer< no role >




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