Appendix 1. The 1624 Infanticide Act

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 11
4. Author’s notes 13
5. 1. Losses, Lacunae and Liminality 15
6. 2. European and Medieval Contexts of Infanticide 51
7. 3. The Liminal Child and Mother 77
8. 4. Love, Law and Liminality 113
9. 5. Constructing Outsiders, Constructing Killers 151
10. 6. Not the Usual Suspects: Communities and Accomplices 191
11. 7. Not the Usual Suspects: Married Women 219
12. 8. Not the Usual Suspects: Men 253
13. 9. Interlude: Infanticide 1700–1950 283
14. 10. Epilogue: Echoes of the Past 295
15. Appendix 1. The 1624 Infanticide Act 327
16. Appendix 2. Note on Sussex Coroners’ inquests 328
17. Appendix 3. Sussex Cases of Violent, Unnatural, Unexplained Infant Death 1547–1686 329
18. Appendix 4. Sussex Infant Deaths Involving Water 338
19. Appendix 5. Sussex Infant Deaths Involving Throwing 340
20. Appendix 6. Sussex Infant Deaths Involving Bloodshed or Extreme Violence 342
21. Appendix 7 Sussex Infant Deaths Showing Direct Involvement of Men 344
22. Index 347