%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Injured Children, / OR, / The Bloudy Midwife; / Being / A Discovery of a Barbarous Cruelty to several Children that had / been made away, and buried privately in a Sellar, and two hid / dead in a Hand-basket. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1693 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/17/2008 20808

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2.193 R188289 1 Russel's Farwell Russell's Farewell Russell's Farewell OH! what a wicked Age is this, / we Wretches do live in. date from content; first lines unclear: OH! what a wicked Age is this, / we Wretches do live in[.] Pepys 2.193 Rollins (1) VII:3-6; Wing I190[A] Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 193 The Injured Children, / OR, / The Bloudy Midwife; / Being / A Discovery of a Barbarous Cruelty to several Children that had / been made away, and buried privately in a Sellar, and two hid / dead in a Hand-basket. The Injured Children, OR, The Bloudy Midwife; Being A Discovery of Barbarous Cruelty to several Children that had been made away, and buried privately in a Sellar, and two hid dead in a Hand-basket. The Injured Children, or, the Bloody Midwife; Being a Discovery of a Barbarious Cruelty to Several Children that Had Been Made Away, and Buried Privately in a Cellar, and Two Hid Dead in a Hand-Basket. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?195 x 310 creased, holed surface, uneven inking Printer T. Moore 1693 Printed and Sold by T. Moore, T. Moore Weinstein: content

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OH! what a wicked Age is this, we Wretches do live in, How prone we are to Wickedness, and to commit each Sin; No day but does produce new Fact of Villainy I say, Some Thieve, some Murders basely act, this is done day by day.
But of all Baseness none can tell a wickeder indeed, For when I think upon it well, it makes my Heart to bleed; A Midwife which at Poplar dwell'd, now Newgate is her doom, 'Tis said she several Children kill'd, and hid them under Ground.
She left a Boy and Girl at home, besides an infant small, And left them no Provision, which made the Children bawl: They cried so loud the Neighbours heard who went for their Relief, The Boy immediately declar'd their Misery and Grief. I'th' Sellar on a Shelf thats high a Basket there you'l find, And in it two dead Children lye, which terrifie[s] my Mind: They went and found it to be true, a dismal Spectacle, Oh wretched Woman, why did you these little Infants kill. I'th' Sellar by the Boys advice, they digged up and down, Where six poor Childrens carcasses immediately were found. Their Skulls and Bores were taken up, a dismal sight to see, Oh Midwife, Midwife, what mad'st thou bury them privately.
Some say they're By-blows she did take, Or Bastards, which you will And all was for the Moneys sake, these infants must be kill'd; For 'tis supposed a sum for good she with a Child did take, But oh! such [?]n[?]rseries for Bloud, would makes one heart to ake. What Grief and Trouble there must be, to those that have put out Their Children to her Custody, since now the Murder's out; No less than eight poor Childyen found, thought to be made away, Six private buried under ground, two in a Basket lay. You Mothers that have Children sure, you nere will Money give, That you for that may never more your Child see while you live, For 'tis a comfort for to see, the Mother Nurse its Child, And then no Midwives Cruelty can ever you beguile.
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