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The Information of
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in the
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Baker taken upon Oath this Sixteenth
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This Information upon his Oath saith That about the
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Beginning of the Month of April last One
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Mary Larkin
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Siglewoman
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was brought
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to Bed of a Female Bastard Child in the
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Parish of Saint Margaret
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in the City of
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Rochester
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in the
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whereupon the Officers
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of the said Parish took this Informant up by a Warrant from a Justice
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of the Peace and he this Informant was there upon
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Comitted to and Confined
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in his Majesty's Prison at
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aforesaid for the Space of Three
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Days But upon this
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Informants entring into a Bond
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with Sufficient Securitys and despositing the Sum of Five Pounds
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to Answer any Charges the parish might sustain by the Child
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continuing in the parish he this Informant was discharged and
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same few Days after he this Informant caused the said Female Bastard
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Child to be brought up to London in Order to endeavour to have it taken
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into the Founding Hospital And this Informant further saith
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That upon the said Childs coming to London he was recomended to and
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left the said Child with One
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Mary Thornton
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of
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in the
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Parish of
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Middx
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and thereupon
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he this Informant deposited in her Hands One Guinea to Answer
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the Charge of Maintaining the said Child untill
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Application could be made to the
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or in Case
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the said Child was not admitted into the said Hospital the said
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Guinea was to Answer all Expences of Maintenance till this
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Informant came to London again And this Informant upon his
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Oath
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further saith that Some time about the Begining of
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June he this Informant came to Sown again when he was Informed
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by the said
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Mary Thornton
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in General Terors that the said Child
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was dead but could not or would not tell
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him what time in
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Particular the said Child dyed or where it was Buried And this
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Informant further saith That he hath several Times applied to
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the said
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Mary Thornton
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for a Satisfactory Account of the said
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Childs Death Burial but can get none therefore this
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Informant hath just Reason to Suspect the said Female
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