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<p n="263"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n263-1">Robert Goodman</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo246">Queen Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo247">Golden Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ71">Messenger</rs>
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to the Church Wardens and Overseers<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo248">St. James Westmr</rs>
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. on his Oath Saith that last<lb></lb>
Saturday evening between nine and ten Mr. Foster<lb></lb>
being then with Dept. on their being informed that<lb></lb>
an Infant was dropt in the sheet in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo249">the Haymarket</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Dept. together with Mr. Foster went to that place<lb></lb>
and found a great Number of People about the<lb></lb>
Child and a Boy standing with a lightened Candle, says there<lb></lb>
was a piece of white fine Cloth round the Loins of<lb></lb>
the Child and a piece of Coarse Cloth, laid under its<lb></lb>
Shoulder and covered over its Face, Says he turned<lb></lb>
the Coarse Cloth back and discovered a New born<lb></lb>
Infant, which he is positive was dead, says he<lb></lb>
observed. some dirt on the right Arm, and believes<lb></lb>
somebody had had on it, and as the coarse Cloth<lb></lb>
was not dirty that the same might have been,<lb></lb>
put about the child afterwards. says he got a Basket<lb></lb>
Woman to carry the Child to the Work house and<lb></lb>
he and Mr. Foster went thither with her, says<lb></lb>
he observed at the Workhouse that the Child was<lb></lb>
a Male, but did not observe andy stoot in the<lb></lb>
Cloth.</p>
<p n="264"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n264-1">Robt Goodman</rs>
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<p n="265"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n265-1">Ann Holloway</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo250">Peter Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo251">St. James Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ72">Widow</rs>
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on her Bath saith that on Saturday night<lb></lb>
on hearing a new born Child was in the Street in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo252">the Haymarket</rs>
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<lb></lb>
She went there, and found a great Many people<lb></lb>
about it, says soon after Mr. Goodman and another<lb></lb>
Parish Officer came, and Dept. by their directions<lb></lb>
carried the child to the Work house, they going<lb></lb>
along with her, says when she came to the Work<lb></lb>
house she discovered theat the Infant was a Boy<lb></lb>
and that the child was wraps in a Coarse & fine<lb></lb>
Cloth, says there was dirt an one Arm, and that<lb></lb>
she mode no further Observations about it.</p>
<p n="266">The mark<figure rend="mark"></figure>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n266-1">Ann Holloway</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="267">Severally Sworn the Day Year<lb></lb>
and Place abovementioned. before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n267-59">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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Coronor.}</p>
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