from Houſe to Houſe, 'twas eaſy to believe this was none of her own Money; they therefore doubted not but they ſhould find the Remainder of what the Captain had loſt, which indeed they did, and with it a much more ſhocking Diſcovery, in turning up the Bed: there lay under it a Parcel of ſmall Bones, which ſeeming to be human, they ſent immediately for two Doctors, the one named Jenkenson, the other. Ball, who, on joining them together, made the perfect. Anatomies of three Children; the Back-Bone of one of them, had been cleft through, as it ſeemed with a Hatchet. Every one was struck with the utmoſt. Horrour at this Sight; except the inhumane Mother and Murdreſs, who impudently owned they were all her own Children, which ſhe had been delivered of in private, to avoid Puniſhment, but pretended in her Defence that they were ſtill-born. She was then aſked, why she did not bury them? To which she anſwered, that was not the Buſineſs of any body, they were her own; and being dead, the might diſpoſe of them as the pleas'd. Perhaps, added the, I had a mind to keep them by me for the Sake of thoſe who begot them.
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