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. The brother of the Child deposed her husband then being a Prisoner the Child was put by the Parish to the Prisoner to Nurse, who she was inform'd barborously tied it, but the being sick was not capable of seeing it her self, Other Evidence deposed, they saw her two Day before it died, the 21st July aforesaid, beat it with a stick unmercifully, threw it down and stamp upon it, using it very cruelly; another Evidence deposed that on the 23d of the same Month he went into the Prisoners House, saw the boy lying cross a Chair with the Head and feet handing down on each side, and blaming her for letting him e, she told him the Boy was dying, and that he did die: He blamed her for her Barharicy, But the matter not having been lookt into its long time, it could not be proved that the Boy died of the beating; so she was
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