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with a Gentlewoman; as she confessed, was got with Child by a Man that was her fellow Servant; and carried it so cuningly, that no Person in the house did in the least suspect her till after she was delivered, which was without help, when wraping the Child in an Apron. She locked it up in her Box; and rising betimes in the Morning, made a Fire and went to Bed again; so that her Mistris finding her out of order, began to examine the cause; whereupon supspecting what had happen'd, she got a Midwife, who upon
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inquiry found she had been delivered; the which she stoutly denied, but at last confessed she had, the Child being still Born, and that she had locked it in her Box. where it was accordingly found, this being sworn by the Witness; her Answer was, That she finding her pains come fast upon her: knocked with her shoo, as loud as possible, but could make none hear her, by reason she lay up three pair of stairs; but the concealing of the Child, being a material Point of Evidence against her; upon the reciting the Statute, she was found
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