On 20 January 1690, Elizabeth Deacon brutally assaulted her servant maid Mary Cox, tying, whipping, burning and beating her over several days. Tried at the Old Bailey for wilful murder, Deacon was found guilty and sentenced to death, though execution was respited due to pregnancy. The case exposes the dangers faced by servants in seventeenth-century London.
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