{"links":{"self":"https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/109979.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":109979,"parliament":{"period":"2015-2017","government":"Conservative","dissolution_at":"2017-05-03T00:01:00.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"We ask HM Government to grant a pardon to Anne West for a conviction of murder.","background":"Anne West was hanged for murder by witchcraft in 1645. Her fourteen year old daughter Rebecca had been coerced into testifying against her mother, in trade for her own freedom. Granting Anne a pardon can go some way in exonerating all witch hunt victims, and strengthening our stand on human rights.","additional_details":"Resources used include:\r\nEssex Record Office,  ERO Archivists LS , www.essex.gov.uk/ero; http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk\r\n\r\nGaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders, A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy  2005, John Murray, London\r\n\r\nThurston, Robert W., The Witch Hunts, A history of the witch persecutions in Europe and North America, 2007.\r\n\r\nWallington, Nehemiah  circa 1660 Diary, John Ryland Library at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England  http://enriqueta.man.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet\r\n\r\n","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":16,"created_at":"2015-10-07T13:10:15.413Z","updated_at":"2017-09-09T06:07:03.800Z","rejected_at":"2015-10-14T17:33:46.352Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2015-10-08T04:26:31.746Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_on":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"irrelevant","details":"A pardon of this kind would be granted by the Monarch.\r\n\r\nYou could start a petition to ask the Government to request such a pardon in this case."},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}