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Trials (Murder) - England - Early works to 1800
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A True and perfect account of the examination, confession, trial, condemnation and execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John and Richard Perry, for the supposed murder of Will. Harrison, gent. Being one of the most remarkable occurrences which hath happened in the memory of man. Sent in a letter (by Sir Thomas Overbury, of Burton, in the county of Gloucester, Knt. and one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace) to Thomas Shirly, doctor of physick, in London. Also Mr. Harrison's own account how he was conveyed to Turkey, and there made a slave above two years, when his master (who bought him there) dying, he returned to England; being, in the mean while, supposed to be murdered by his man-servant, who falsely accused his own mother and brother as guilty of the same, and were all three executed for it on Broadway-Hills, in Gloucestershire.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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The last dying speech and confession of Charles Squire, who was executed at Stafford, on Monday the 29th day of April, 1799, for the murder of Joseph Green, his apprentice.
Squire, Charles, -1799.Date: 1799]- Books
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A supplement to the London Journal, of February 2. 1722-23. Being a large and impartial abstract of the tryal of Christopher Layer, Esq; with an introduction, by Britannicus.
Layer, Christopher, 1683-1723.Date: [1723]- Books
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Genuine letters that pass'd between Miss Blandy and Miss Jeffries, before and after conviction.
Blandy, Mary, 1720-1752.Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- Books
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The whole tryal, life and conversation [sic] birth, parentage, and education, of the Lady Aberganey, who was burnt at East Grinsted in Sussex, on Tuesday last, for murdering her son, by roasting him, ... Together with her last speech and dying words, wherein she has confessed how she was the principle [sic] cause of her husbands [sic] death, ...
Stannup, James.Date: 1712