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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 22 March 2023), May 1691, trial of                   Margaret                   Deane                                                                            (t16910527-17).<hr/><h2>Margaret Deane, Killing &gt; infanticide, 27th May 1691. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>                                                Margaret                   Deane                                                                                        of Leather-Lane                                                      , was Tryed for the                                                          Murther of her Female Infant Bastard Child, on the 20th of April                      last, by casting it into a Vault, &amp;c.             The Proof was, That the Child was found in the House of Office, which the Prisoner confest immediately; but no Wounds were found upon the Child, the Prisoner deny'd it at her Tryal, and said she was Lawfully Married at Portsmouth; and said further, That her Husband was gone to Sea: but nothing materially to her advantage, she was found                                     Guilty             of Murther.</p>               <p>                                                                                                [Death. See summary.]                                                </p>            </div>
				
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