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HSA1678/S/72
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Deposition: Hannah Aman, w. of Jn.Aman, Ridgmont. 18 May 1678.
Had agreed to look after child of Alex Bowin, but 'shoe not willinge to keep the said child any longer for soe little allowance, her daughter agreed to take it. Daughter then left it in a field in Edleborough, where it was found almost dead then took it to Shortnold, where it died. Hannah Aman, daughter of Jn.Aman. She had agreed with Alex.Bowin to abandon the child, A.B. giving her £5 bond. After she had fetched it from Edleborough, she took it to Shortnold, breaking promise to Constables of Ridgmont to take it to Maulden. At Shortnold it died. The Examinacon of Hannah Aman wife of John Aman of Ridgmont in the County of Bedford taken the 18th day of May Anno dni 1678 before me St John Thomson Esqr one of his Mates Justices of the Peace for the said County This Examinant saith that shee did agree with one Alexander Bowin of Mauldon in the said County to take a child of which he was the putative father, begotten on the body of his servant Bigge and did keepe the said child at her house in Ridgmont aforesaid accordinge to theire agreement but upon further consideracon shee not willinge to keepe the said child any longer for soe little allowance, the said Bowin paid her for soe longe time as she had kept the said child, and agreed with her daughter Hannah Aman to keepe it for the future, And further saith that her daughter Hannah Aman after shee had agreed with the said Bowin did leave the child in the parish of Edlesborough in the County of Bucks in a by place in there field a mile and a halfe from the said towne where it was found on May day in the morninge almost dead the morninge beinge a very rainy morninge And this Examinant further saith that she fetched the said child from Edlesborough the clay before her daughter Hannah Aman carried the said child to Shortnold in the said County, where it dyed the very night ensueinge; St John Thomson The Examination of Hannah Aman daughter of John Aman of Ridgmont aforesaid Singlewoman taken the 18th day of May Anno dni 1678 before me St John Thomson Esqr one of his Mates Justices of the Peace for the said County This Examinant saith that after her mother had lefte the said child and would keepe it noe longer shee did agree with Alexander Bowin the putative father of the said child, to take the said child, and to leave the said childe somewhere that it might never come to light againe; yet upon a little pause she said, soe as it might not come to mischiefe, the said Bowin promisinge & giveinge her a bond of five pounds for the payment of fiftie shillings, and that after her mother had fetched the said child from Edlesborough shee did carry the same to Shortnold in the said County of Bedford upon Thursday being the Ninth day of this instant May, & there shee lodginge with it in one goodman Deacons barne the child fell to vomitinge and soe dyed, and was buried at Stretly in the said County the 11th day of May aforesaid, notwithstanding shee beinge before charged by the Constables of Ridgmont where shee then was to carry the said child to Mauldon which she promised them soe to doe, & that shee did intend it; yet contrary to her promise she carried the said child to Shortnold aforesaid which was quite out of the way to Mauldon aforesaid, Shortnold beinge as farre from Mauldon as Ridgmont was; St John Thomson
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