The timing of Toft's confession proved awkward for St. André, who on 3 December had published his forty-page pamphlet A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets.

The same day, Thomas Howard, a porter at the bagnio, confessed to Justice of the Peace Sir Thomas Clarges that he had been bribed by Toft's sister-in-law, Margaret, to sneak a rabbit into Toft's chamber.

In Dennis Todd's Three Characters in Hogarth's Cunicularii and Some Implications the author concludes that figure " G " is Mary Toft's sister-in-law, Margaret Toft.

He delivered several pieces of animal flesh and duly notified other prominent physicians, which brought the case to the attention of Nathaniel St. André, surgeon to the Royal Household of King George I. St. André concluded that Toft's case was genuine but the king also sent surgeon Cyriacus Ahlers, who remained sceptical.

The damage done to the medical profession was such that several doctors not connected with the tale felt compelled to print statements that they had not believed Toft's story.

Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow, had begun an investigation of his own and discovered that for the past month Toft's husband, Joshua, had been buying young rabbits.

With publications such as St. André's Miscarriage ( 1727 ) and The anatomist dissected: or the man-midwife finely brought to bed ( 1727 ) satirists scorned the objectivity of men-midwives, and critics of Toft's attendants questioned their integrity, undermining their profession with sexual puns and allusions.

The contents are correspondingly varied: a confession of sin and a plea to God not to maintain his anger forever ( ch. 63: 7 – 64: 11 ); a poem on the theme that God has no need of a temple because Heaven is his throne and Earth his footstool ( Isaiah 66: 1 – 2 ); verses setting out conditions for admission to the community ; complaints of sin, incompetence and paganism ; and distinctions between the " righteous " and the " sinners ", foreshadowing the categories used in much later Judaism and early Christianity.

In Provincial Letters ( 1656 – 7 ) he scolded the Jesuits for using casuistic reasoning in confession to placate wealthy Church donors, while punishing poor penitents.

Holmes was paid US $ 7, 500 ($ in 2010 dollars ) by the Hearst Newspapers in exchange for this confession.

In a court session held at James Citye ( Jamestown on 7 May 1627, it was ruled that Roger Dilk ( by his own confession ) had absented himself from his plantation without the knowledge or leave of his commander contrary to an order of Court for the space of 8 days complete, and he was fined to pay 25 pounds of tobacco for every 24 hours he was absent, totaling the sum of 200 pounds of tobacco.

: In volume # 7 she finally confesses her love to him, although this is provided in a frustrated outcry over her mishaps in her attempts to deliver it rather than a direct face-to-face confession.

The sheriff arrested Thomas Harold Thurmond near a pay phone in a parking garage 150 feet from the San Jose Police station at about 8 p. m. At 3: 00 a. m., Thurmond, after hours of questioning, signed a confession in which he claimed to have bound Brooke Hart with wire and tossed him off the San Mateo Bridge into San Francisco Bay some time between 7: 00 and 7: 30 on the night of the kidnapping.

On July 28, 1864, the overall commander of the battle, Zeng Guofan reached Nanking from Anqing and ordered Li to write his confession, and Li was executed after the completion on August 7, 1864.

* Has not confessed or his / her confession has been rejected — 5 to 7 years imprisonment, half of it is spent in prison, the other is commuted to works of public interest ;

He later recanted his confession and protested his innocence to no effect until his death on December 5, 1951, at 64 ; he was the first of the eight banned White Sox players to die.

He was excommunicated in 1608, and imprisoned in Stirling Castle till 10 December 1610, when he signed again the confession of faith.

Pressured again by Manningham and Douglas ( it was the latter who took her confession ), she made a further admission on 8 December and another on 9 December, before being sent to Tothill Fields Bridewell, charged on a statute of Edward III as a " vile cheat and imposter ".

Manningham, desperate to exculpate himself, published a diary of his observations of Mary Toft, together with an account of her confession of the fraud, on 12 December.

In 1849 Rev Andrew Murray visited the farm Doornkloof and christened 129 babies, heard the confession of their faith of 29 new members of the Reformed Church and the next day, 29 December 1849, celebrated communion.

Robbins ' confession led to the arrest on December 29, 1924 of William Behrens, 20, of Monticello, Indiana.

Stefan Kiszko died of a massive heart attack, in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, on 23 December 1993, at home, 18 years and two days after he made the confession that helped lead to wrongful conviction for murder.

In December 1931, Dashwood attempted to get the rector to sign an open confession to immorality while denying him access to the bishop and the right to know of what he was being accused.

On December 19, 2001 he made a confession of the offenses which was recorded and was signed by him.

In the last pages of the book Sibylla comes to Rome to seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her confession.

In an adversarial system, there is no more controversy and the case proceeds to sentencing ; though in many jurisdictions the defendant must have allocution of her or his crime, a false confession will not be accepted even in common law courts.

She said she was kept naked in a suicide watch cell and given cold showers and that Reno visited her late at night in pursuit of her confession and damning testimony.

Attempts to draw a confession that she had betrayed her dancer husband and had collaborated with the Nazis led to the use of a device employing a death mask of the dead patriot, which literally frightens her to death.

Under cloak of confession and a most spotless conscience, a lady, enamored of a young man, induces a dim-witted friar unwittingly to provide a means to the entire gratification of her passion.

A jealous husband disguises himself as a priest, and hears his own wife's confession: she tells him that she loves a priest, who comes to her every night.

The popular account dreamed up by a reporter, attributing it to Mrs. Catherine O ' Leary and her cow, survived his confession of fiction in 1893.

Knowing she was dying, Elizabeth used her last remaining strength to make her confession, to recite with her confessor the prayer for the dying and to say good-bye to those few people who wished to be with her including Peter and Catherine and Counts Alexey and Kirill Razumovsky.

After her confession, Perrund demands DeWar kill her.

Sheila begs her mother not to continue, but Goole plays his final card, making Sybil admit that the " drunken young man " should give a ' public confession, accepting all the blame '.

Valjean hands Cosette his written confession and dies in her arms.

Fiona and Mr. Lundie arrive, and Tommy, shaken by Jeff's confession, tells Fiona that even though he loves her, he cannot stay ; he still has doubts (" From This Day On ").

Dolores's " confession " develops into the story of her life, her troubled marriage, and her relationship with her employer.

Her husband was present for her final confession.

* In The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King, an elderly Holmes and his protegee, Mary Russell, are pursued by Moriarty's middle-aged daughter, also an Oxford mathematics don, and a criminal kingpin in her own right, who threatens Holmes's remaining friends as she attempts to force Holmes to kill himself after signing a fake confession ' admitting ' that he framed her father to be a criminal out of jealousy aand that most of his cases were solved by others, only for Holmes to provoke her by noting that her father essentially committed suicide by confronting Holmes in such an isolated spot without any weapons, resulting in her accidentally shooting herself when struggling with Mary Russell in a fit of rage.

In part, these feelings were due to Ronald's rigid, almost medieval, insistence upon frequent confession ; and Edith had always hated confessing her sins to a priest.

The GPU claimed to have obtained a confession from his sister-in-law and former secretary, Anita Russakova, that she and Serge had been involved in a conspiracy led by Trotsky.