Burned at the Stake: The Life and Death of Mary Channing

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II printed at Dorchester at Dorset County Chronicle Office in the year 1911 Transcribed by Michael Russell OPC for Dorchester April 2011 Emling, Shelley (2009), The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman whose Discoveries Changed the World, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-61156-6 Naturally her cavorting and Jezebellian ways became the talk of Dorchester’s gossips, but Mary continued to drift from one extreme of pleasure-seeking to another. One citizen, who did not even know the Brooks family, even sent Mary’s parents a letter of complaint about their daughter’s wayward conduct. These correspondences would increase as Mary’s excesses increased. Clearly Dorchester’s busybodies had blown any hope the girl may have entertained of keeping her activities under wraps from her parents. Although Richard Brooks was shamed by his daughter’s behaviour and expressed his displeasure, Mary took scant notice. For the sake of decency, gentlemen, don’t hang me high.’ This was the last request of modest murderess Mary Blandy, who was hanged for the poisoning of her father in 1752. Concerned that the young men amongst the crowd who had thronged to see her execution might look up her skirts as she was ‘turned off’ by the hangman, this last nod to propriety might appear farcical in one who was about to meet her maker. Yet this was just another aspect of a case which attracted so much public attention in its day that some determined spectators even went to the lengths of climbing through the courtroom windows to get a glimpse of Mary while on trial. Indeed her case remained newsworthy for the best part of 1752, for months garnering endless scrutiny and mixed reaction in the popular press.

While the law did extend the clemency of strangulation before the fires were lit, the horrific ‘live’ burning of Mary Channing was not an isolated example of where this was not the case. Norman, David B. (1999), "Mary Anning and her times: the discovery of British palaeontology (1820–1850)", Trends Ecol. Evol. (published November 1999), vol.14, no.11, pp.420–421, doi: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01700-0, PMID 10511714 Out of the gloom that gathers round the history of the Dorchester gallows in past centuries, two or three figures, or groups of figures, stand out distinctly, and whilst on the subject it seems a fitting opportunity to recall. them. One and the latest has been already named, the unfortunate Mary Channing, but 18 years old, burnt in the Amphitheatre in Lomax, D. R.; Massare, J. A. (2015). "A new species of Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Jurassic of West Dorset, England, U.K". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (2): e903260. Bibcode: 2015JVPal..35E3260L. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2014.903260. S2CID 85745787. I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself….You must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”

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The sculptor bringing Dorset palaeontologist Mary Anning to life | Art UK". artuk.org . Retrieved 2 June 2022. Then the scene was shifted to a spot within the walls of the prison, overlooking and within sight of the meadows by the river. Many can still tell of the thousands that used to gather below the gaol at the " Hang Fairs." By day break the best places were taken, and the waiting time was spent in drinking fiddling, and dancing. The time, it is said, of the executions in early days determined by the arrival of the coach from London, which might possibly bear a reprieve at the last moment. The " Royal Mail" coach was timed to arrive at the King's Arms at 9.30 a.m., after 13½

She conducted her own defence with the greatest ability, and was complimented thereupon by Judge Price. Who tried her but he did not extend his compliment to a merciful summing up. Maybe that he, like Pontius Pilot was influenced by the desire of the townsfolk for to wreak vengeance on somebody, right or wrong. Most influential British women in the history of science". The Royal Society . Retrieved 11 September 2010. For many, the Natural History Museum is a place that inspires learning, gives purpose and provides hope. People tell us they 'still get shivers walking through the front door', and thank us for inspiring the next generation of scientists. To reverse the damage we've done and protect the future, we need the knowledge that comes from scientific discovery. Understanding and protecting life on our planet is the greatest scientific challenge of our age. And you can help. Carus, C.G. (1846), The King of Saxony's journey through England and Scotland in the year 1844, Chapman and Hall

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Mary Anning: Fossil hunter celebrated with Jurassic 50p coins". BBC News. 25 February 2021 . Retrieved 25 February 2021. Serious Admonitions to Youth, In a short Account of the Life, Trial, Condemnation and Execution of Mrs. Mary Channing. London: Benjamin Bragg. 1706. OCLC 316657264 . Retrieved 4 November 2017. The History of Dorchester Gallows Dorchester The History of Dorchester Gallows By the Reverend S.E.V. FILLEUL M.A. Letter and drawing from Mary Anning announcing the discovery of a fossil animal now known as Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, 26December 1823 In 2018, a new research and survey vessel was launched as Mary Anning for Swansea University. [97] and a suite of rooms named after her at the Natural History Museum in London.