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Patrick Robertson & Marion Kempt - Crime of Adultery:

 

Patrick Robertson & Marion Kempt  for Adultery.
1627

 The prisoners were accused of adulterous commerce with each other; the fruits of which were, Marion Kempt's bearing three children to the said Patrick *.

They were also charged with the said Marion's having, with Patrick's knowledge and consent, taken poisonous drugs, by which her first child was killed in the womb.  They were convicted on their own confession; and, on the 20th of the same month, were sentenced to be hanged on a gibbet at the Castle Hill.

Records of Justiciary, 18th, 20th, December 1627.

 

 

 

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