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Campden Wonder
Lady Juliana’s steward, an elderly and respected man vanished one night with the rents ha had been collecting. Only his hat and bloodstained neckcloth were found. His servant was accused and after much investigation confessed to murder and robbery, also accusing his mother and brother. The three were tried, twice – the first time the murder could not be proven since no body had been found. At the second trial the judge was not so cautious and they were all condemned and hanged.
In 1662 the steward returned to Chipping Campden with a story of robbery, kidnapping and having been shipped out of England bound for America, then captured by Turkish pirates, and sold by them as a slave. Even today the full story is not known but the steward’s account was accepted as true by most at the time when the events would have been closely enquired into.
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