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, where she said she remembered the day Lawler lay in her house, particularly by this, she having buried a female child that day in St. Anne's parish &c. The register-keeper produced the register, and upon examining it there was no such child buried by that name in the month of May; but upon his cross-examination he said he set down such names as were brought to him, but could not determine whether all are the true names of persons buried there, and likewise could not depose he never did omit setting down a name after the burial through hurry or mistake. This not being sufficient evidence, being liable to mistakes, and Mary Hall, who gave evidence on the other trial, had secreted herself, though bound over to appear &c. the prisoner was
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