In February 1740, the pair decided that their maid had been loitering on an errand and beat the servant to death.
The pair were tried for murder at the Somerset assizes, with the jury delivering a guilty verdict without even retiring.
They buried her secretly, claiming that she had died of natural causes, but enough suspicion was aroused that locals exhumed her body.
They brought it to the local surgeon who examined the body and found wounds which would have "kill'd the stoutest man".
The jury returned a guilty verdict without retiring to deliberate, and the two women were hanged at Ilchester on 3 May before six in the morning to reduce the possibility of an angry mob.