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<p n="315"> <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date58">March 7. 1771</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="316"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n316-1">Frances Cockran</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo251">Blue Anchor Yard</rs>
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Westmr. Midwife<lb></lb>
on her Oath saith that on Saturday Night last Dept.<lb></lb>
stood at the End of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo252">Blue Anchor Yard</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo253">Petty France</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
seeing a great Crowd of People before Mr. Timbury the Perwke<lb></lb>
makers door, and hearing that a Child was last there, she<lb></lb>
went there and saw a Child lying upon the Step before<lb></lb>
Mr. Timbury's Door, in a piece of Linnen, but Dept.<lb></lb>
did not touch the Chid, who appeared to be dead.</p>
<p n="317"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n317-1">Frances Cockren</rs>
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<p n="318"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n318-1">Elizabeth Richards</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ82">Midwife</rs>
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(Wife of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n318-2">Benjamin Richards</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo254">Mill Bank Street</rs>
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Westmr.) on her Oath saith, That she<lb></lb>
has Examined the New born Male Child lying in the<lb></lb>
Work house of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo255">St. Margaret Westmr</rs>
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. and found<lb></lb>
no marks of Violence thereupon, That the Child appears<lb></lb>
to be about Eighth Months Child, That she thinks it was<lb></lb>
a sudden Birth and believes that the Child was Strangled<lb></lb>
in the Birth, and that it was not born alive, And<lb></lb>
this Dept. says that she went With Mr. Drake the<lb></lb>
Vestry Clerk of this Parish on Tuesday last to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo256">Blue<lb></lb>
Anchor Yard</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo257">Petty France</rs>
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Westmr. and there heard a<lb></lb>
Girl who she was informed had been Examined upon the Coroner's Inquest) charge a Woman who lodges in said Yard with giving<lb></lb>
a Bundle on Saturday Night last to another Woman, who,<lb></lb>
the sd: Girl said, she saw lay it down at Mr. Timbury's Door<lb></lb>
says that both the Woman dimed the Charge, and that<lb></lb>
she this Dept. has since Examined the Woman who<lb></lb>
delivered the Bundle to the other and believes that she<lb></lb>
cod. not be the mother of the Child.</p>
<p n="319"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n319-1">Elizabeth Richard</rs>
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<p n="320">Severally Sworn the Day & Year<lb></lb>
abovementioned before me}</p>
<p n="321"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n321-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ83">Coroner</rs>
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