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1777. Sessions. [Saturday] Dec. 20th.

ces of the truth or falsity of the assertion. But though I agree, if a Jury of Matrons can not be assembled without great inconvenience, we may, within the direction of the Charter to administer Justice in Criminal matters according to the Law of England as nearly as the circumstances will admit, proceed to examine the fact by others than a Jury of Matrons, and have no Jury of Matrons, yet I think it will be more proper to follow the precedent now made, and to summon a Jury of Matrons.
In this case of Peggy, she was put to the Bar, and Mrs. Mary Bowers, who is a Woman much consulted by English Ladies here in cases of Pregnancy tho’ being rich she is above reckoning herself a Mid-Wife, was named by Impey as Fore-Woman of this Jury, and the names of the others who appear’d, were put into the box from whence the Jury-men’s names were usually drawn, and the first Eleven who were drawn were sworn, after Polly Bowers (as she is commonly call’d, had been sworn) had been sworn in the form directed in the Crown Circuit companion,
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