 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 " . In her earlier , unpublished confessions , she blamed the entire affair on a range of other participants , from her mother @-@ in @-@ law to John Howard . She also claimed that a travelling woman told her how to insert the rabbits into her body , and how such a scheme would ensure that she would " never want as long as I liv 'd " . The British Journal reported that on 7 January 1727 she appeared at the Courts of Quarter Sessions at Westminster , charged " for being an abominable cheat and imposter in pretending to be delivered of several monstrous births " . Margaret Toft had remained staunch , and refused to comment further . Mist 's Weekly Journal of 24 December 1726 reported that " the nurse has been examined as to the person 's concerned with her , but either was kept in the dark as to the imposition , or is not willing to disclose what she knows ; for nothing can be got from her ; so that her resolution shocks others . " 
