330 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1659.

Liber
P. C. R.

gaue it the best things shee had to comfort it, & brought it into the
howse, when the men were att worke: & washed it, & dressed it
againe, And allthough shee layd it in the Tob howse, shee lett it want
for noe tendance, for shee had noe euill intentions towards it: but
thought to conceale it till shee were a little stronger: ffor shee thought
w^thin 3 or 4 dayes shee should be able to carry it to the ffather, And th^l
was the only reason shee concealed it, & noe other
Taken before mee the 28^th day of June 1659. Hugh Stanley.
Thomas Cobham sworne in open Court Sayth, That on the 4^th
day of June (as hee supposeth) att night, Lighting his Pipe of Tob :
& walking up & downe the yard, hee heard a Child Cry, supposing th^t
there had bene Indians in the Tob howse, And went to Bed thinking
nothing, Butt in the morning (the Cry running still in his mind) hee
went into the Tob howse; & in a Tob. hogshead th^t had a few husks
about it, hee found a yowng Child, & brought it to the woman Anne
Barbery, & asked her, whither that Child was hers or noe? & who
was the ffather thereof? Shee answered That it was hers, & th^t
Joseph Edlow was the ffather of it. Soe deliuering the Child to her,
hee willed her to haue a Care of it, whilst hee & his Mate Thomas
Nobs, went to the next Neighbo^rs howse to help in w^th a Tob howse
frame. And in the way discoursing about the busines, they thought
best not to leaue the woman alone. Whereuppon hee this Depon^t
went forwards, & Thomas Nobs returned home to the woman. And
the frame of the howse being gott in, hee this Depon^t came home, &
the woman told him, th^t the Child was dead. And being then night,
the next morning hee went & declared the whole Busines to M^r
Stanley hee being next Commis^r.
Anne Howse sworne sayth, That about 24 howres after the Child
was departed (by the Relaon of the poeple in the howse) shee being
brought thither, Saw uppon the Belly of the Child a Blew spott, about
the bignes of her Two hands: & the edges of the lipps of the Child
were black: the Nable string was untyde, Butt saw not one drop of
Blood about it, ffurther Sayth not.
Joane Wad .... sayth the uery same, And further addeth, That
shee asked .... her of Child, w^th what shee tyed the Nable-string ?

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& shee replyed w^th a thread. But this Depo^t saw noe such thread
wherew^th it was tyed. And the mother, told this Depon^t that another
woman named Susan Barbery, had cult of a pcicc of the Nable string
because it was to long.
Anne Biggs Jurat idem uerbatim quod Anne Howse ut Supra.
Thomas Nobs Sayth, That hee first saw the Child, when his Mate
brought it to the woman, That the woman uppon demand, acknow-
ledged it to bee her Child, & begotten on her by Joseph Edlow, That
his Mate & hee goeing to the next Neighbo^rs howse according to
promise, uppon the way thither, it was resolued by them th^t hee this
Depo^t should returne to the woman, & not leaue her alone in the