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Emma Hereward's Pardoned Of Murder

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The terms just discussed were prevalent in noteworthy cases from the later medieval times where people were found to be mad. Several people were found to have killed people while in a rage or due to the mental incapacity to know what they were doing was wrong. Emma Hereward was pardoned for killing Maud the daughter of Emma Wolurich as long as she made amends with the deceased’s relatives and stood trial; since she did it due to her madness. Drew de Henle was pardoned for killing two boys, because he was found to be mad. Maud was pardoned for killing her two sons because she was found to have done it through madness. Henry Bruneman of Tydington was found to be freneticus and furiosus, meaning insane and enraged and was pardoned of murder.
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