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It was a moving sight to behold him wasting away day by day, growing thinner and thinner and ghastlier and ghastlier, and staring with rueful visage from under an old patchwork counterpane, upon the jury of matrons kindly assembled to sigh and groan and look unhappy around him.
Since the 14th century and possibly earlier the only women allowed to serve as jurors were those married mothers who formed a 'jury of matrons'.
Another such "special" fact-finding body, to which Oldham devotes an entire chapter, was called a "jury of matrons." He describes how groups of "honest women of good reputation" were sometimes assigned to inspect the clothing of women accused of being witches to see if "instruments of witchcraft" were hidden in them.
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