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Violent sentence at Hemmington murder trial 1740
The April 4 Taunton Assizes witnessed the conviction and death sentence of Mrs Elizabeth Branch and her daughter for the murder of their servant in Hemmington near Philips-Norton Somerset. The jury heard a brutal sequence of beating with sticks and whipping, ending in the victim's death.
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Erith
Shereof
Majorca
Taunton
Elizabeth Branch
Jane Buttersworth
Hemmington
Philips-Norton
Somerset
Deccas
Anne
el Gabeth
Kieran
Mir
Salatoa
Sasur
Arie