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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.