Anne Greene

Anne Greene ( * 1628, † 1665) was a servant of the Lord shaft house in Dun 's Tew. She was hanged in 1650 in Oxford due to infanticide, but survived the execution and was pardoned.

Childhood and youth

Anne Greene grew up in Steeple Barton, Oxfordshire. About her childhood and youth we do not know much. Later she worked as a maid in the manor house in Dun 's Tew shaft. There she cared especially the laundry. She lived in a small room along with other maids. This chamber is still preserved.

Conviction and execution

Anne Greene was convicted of killing her own child, she herself stated, however, that it would have been a stillbirth. Father of the child was the grandson of her employer. On December 14, 1650 she was hanged at Oxford. After the usual waiting time her body was taken and handed over to the autopsy to physicians, however, noted that Greene was still breathing. They managed to revive Greene. The doctors were based on the humoral theory. With warm or cold wrap you regulated their body temperature. With warm enemas they tried to bring their blood to circulate. Since you evaluated their survival as God's intervention, Greene was pardoned.