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Duns Tew Hanging

Period cottages in Main Street, Duns Tew

Fact

In 1650, a domestic servant at Duns Tew manor house named Anne Greene, was convicted of the infanticide of her stillborn child. She was hanged at Oxford Castle but survived after being presumed dead and was given a free pardon.

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