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The Appellants Case
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List by Symond
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The Circumstances under which the
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have preferred and hope to support
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this Appeal Arise out of the Examination as stated by the Parties to have been given on Oath before the Majestrates
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andon which the Order of removal is founded And the mother first States these fasts That in the month of
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August 1786 she lived with her mother in
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being then with Child of the
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Illigitimate Child in Question That being very near her lying in she was removed on the 10th. of August 1787.
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almost in a State of Labour to
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then kept by one Sumonds within the
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of Saint Mary Staining
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and there she was in three days after Vizt. 13th. August 1787 delivered of the Child
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That the lodging was provided by Mr Collins the Father for this express purpose That she continued so Ill during
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the whole time she was there (which was only one Month) that she does not perfectly recollect all the circumstances
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Bur she recollects perfectly that she was taken to and from the House by night and that it was in the month of
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August 1787 and that the Child will be 7 years Old next August That the Child was taken from her within the
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month by
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the nurse who hath ever since had the Child in her Care That she thinks the Land lords
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name who kept the House was Symonds That on the 5th. of September 1789 she was married to
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at the
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These she says are the Facts to which
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she has Sworn before the JusticesIt appears on a Subsequent Conversation with the Woman by the Officers
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or the Parish of Saint Mary Staining That she is very in correct in her Account It is extra ordinary that she
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should be so positive to the house having been brought there by night extreemly Ill and never out of the house
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till taken away in another Coach by night at the end of a Month On being questioned as to what room she
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was In she first says the one Pair of Stairs but being told that was not probable She says she believes the
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2 pair the Garrett on being answered the Garrett was three pair Stairs She answers she was so Ill she cod.
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not Recollect Upon her being asked if the Child was Christned she says not but was half Baptized by the
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Clergyman of
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(which cod. not be out of his Parish) She further says that when she was before
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the Parish Officers of St Leonard That she cod. not Recollect the name of the Parish where the Child was
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Born That the Vestry Clerk Read a long list of Parish's over to her at first she fixed on
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but being told that it could not be there she at length fixed on
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The Improbibility and in con
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ney of her whole Story it is presumed will shake very
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much her Credibility And added there to is the positive Contradiction as to her having been delivered of a Child
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at any period within 10 Years in the House
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At Lady day 1784 the House was taken by
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who continued to Inhabit the same down to the year 1792 And during all that period
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there is the positive Testimony of Mr. Hallpike and his wife that no such circumstance ever happened at
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their HouseThen it is impossible the Child being under 7 Years of Age & more than we cod. have been born in the House
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The much for the Testimony of the Mother
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says she lives in the
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that about 7 Years ago she went to the House
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to receive the Child in Questions to nurse
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That the Child was then 14 days Old That she was paid for the nursing the Child for the first 4 Years
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by a
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by the Order of Mr Collins the Father but the Father having been dead for 3 Years
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last past she has not been paid by any Body And was the Occasion of her making Application to the
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Officers of
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where she now lives for Relief
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