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Westmr. Midwife
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on her Oath saith that on Saturday Night last Dept.
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seeing a great Crowd of People before Mr. Timbury the Perwke
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makers door, and hearing that a Child was last there, she
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Westmr.) on her Oath saith, That she
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has Examined the New born Male Child lying in the
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Work house of the Parish of
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. and found
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no marks of Violence thereupon, That the Child appears
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to be about Eighth Months Child, That she thinks it was
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a sudden Birth and believes that the Child was Strangled
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in the Birth, and that it was not born alive, And
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this Dept. says that she went With Mr. Drake the
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Vestry Clerk of this Parish on Tuesday last to
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Westmr. and there heard a
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Girl who she was informed had been Examined upon the Coroner's Inquest) charge a Woman who lodges in said Yard with giving
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a Bundle on Saturday Night last to another Woman, who,
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the sd: Girl said, she saw lay it down at Mr. Timbury's Door
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says that both the Woman dimed the Charge, and that
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she this Dept. has since Examined the Woman who
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delivered the Bundle to the other and believes that she
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cod. not be the mother of the Child.
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Severally Sworn the Day & Year
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abovementioned before me}
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