1. Introduction -- 2. The generation of suspicion: single women, bastardy and the law -- 3. Examining suspects: conflicting accounts of pregnancy, birth and death -- 4. Examining bodies: medical evidence and the coroner's inquest -- 5. Virtuous or vicious: conflicting accounts of accused women -- 6. Evidence in court: the verdicts of inquest, grand and trial juries -- 7. Single, women, bastardy and the law: the decline and fall of the 1624 statute
Analysis
England
Murder History
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-198) and index