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into Water they swam but he would not
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take upon him to draw a Conclusion that
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from that Circumstance the Child was
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born alive and breathed as in the Course
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of his Practice he has known the
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Contrary in divers Cases, that the appears
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of the Child and therefore is inclined
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to believe that the sd Child was Still born
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deposeth that she has lived between one
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Jane Richardson
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the supposed Mother
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Female Child has lived
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House Maid
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nearly as long and was
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respected by her Master and Mistress
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for being a very good Servant and that
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this Deponent did not Know that she was
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with Child nor does she Know that
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any of the Family knew it, that on Sunday
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Morning last between ten and eleven o'Clock
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when she went into Front Kitchen to light
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the Fire she observed the Cupboard door open
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which belonged to the said Jane Richardson
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(and which used always theretofore to be locked) and the
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Cat dragging something out of the Cupboard
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tied up in in a Cloth which this Deponent
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thought was a Beef Stake which she took
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from the Cat and upon opening the Cloth
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she found a Parcel
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in a Sheet
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of Paper tied with a piece of old Ribband
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and upon opening the same she
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discovered it to be a dead Child,
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whereupon she took it up
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to the
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House keeper who was a Bed who being
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alarmed and afflicted as well as this
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Deponent at such a Sight told her to take
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it
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and lock it up till the Family came
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home, there being at that time no body
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in the House but the said House Keeper
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this Deponent and the said Jane Richardson
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whereupon this Deponent took the said
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dead Child down Stairs and locked it up
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in a China Closet and the House Keeper told
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this Deponent to take no Notice to the Said
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Jane Richardson respecting this sd. dead Child
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until
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