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Verbatim accounts of over 100,000 Old Bailey Trials between 1674 and 1834 on a juicy searchable database. Hours of fun for all the family:

A married woman lately living without Cripplegate, that appeared to be between 30 and 40 years of age, was arrigned, For that she having not the fear of God before her eyes, nor regarding the order of Nature, on the 23. of June last, to the disgrace of all womankind, did commit Buggery with a certain Mungril Dog

via. You get the impression that it wouldn't have been so bad if it was a pedigree.

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