A genuine account of the most horrid parricide committed by Mary Blandy, spinster, upon the body of her father Francis Blandy ... : Together with the copy of a letter she had wrote to Mr. C-n ... and her confession before the magistrate. Also a copy of her commitment to Oxford Gaol ... / Published by some of the friends and relations of the family.

Date:
1751
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Credit: A genuine account of the most horrid parricide committed by Mary Blandy, spinster, upon the body of her father Francis Blandy ... : Together with the copy of a letter she had wrote to Mr. C-n ... and her confession before the magistrate. Also a copy of her commitment to Oxford Gaol ... / Published by some of the friends and relations of the family. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they dill could read upon it, Powder for cleaning Scotch Pebbles, Before we proceed any farther in this Tragedy, it may not be improper to infert here the feveral Affidavits of Mr. Norton, the Apothecary ; Sufannah Gunnell, the Chamber Maid •, Elizabeth Binfieldj the Cook Maid ; and the two Men Servants, made the Hay after Mr. BlandyB Death, as they particularly relate to what we have already mentioned. iUSANNAH GUNNELL, Servant to Francis Blandy, Gent, deceas'd, upon her Oath faith, that fome Time laft Week, ihe this Examinant, gave to the faid Francis Blandy fome Water-Gruel, and faith, that Ihe obferved that there was fome Settlement at the Bottom of the Pan, wherein the faid Water-Gruel was *, and faith, that the fame was white and gritty, and fettled at the Bottom of the Pan ; and faith, that (lie this Deponent, deli¬ vered the faid Pan, with the Gruel and Powder fettled at the Bottom thereof to Mr. Benjamin Norton, who was Apothe¬ cary to the faid Francis Blandy. Fa ken on Qathy the The Mark of i 5 th Day of An- t he ft faid gufl, 1751? be- Sufannah Gun¬ fire, me nelL ill CHARD MILES. 03SRT HARMAN, Servant to Francis Blandy, Gent, deceas’d, up¬ on his Oath faith, that Mds Mary Blan¬ dy ^ told this Examinant, that it was Love- Powder which file put into her Father’s Gruel, on Monday the 5th Day of Auguft I nil. but that fhe was Innocent of the Confequenee of it. Faken on Oath, the 15 th Day of Auguft, 1751, before ROB. HARMAN. *> V RICHARD MILES. Benjamin, Norton of Henley ag¬ on Thames, in the County of Cxony Apothecary, upon his Oath frith, that on Tuefday the 6th Day of Auguft Infant, he this Examinant was lent for to Mr. Francis Blandy, deceafed, who then complained of a violent Pain in his Stomach and Bowels, attended with a violent Vomiting and Pur¬ ging ; and frith, that on the Thurfday Morningfollowing, Sufannah Gunnell, Ser¬ vant to the faid Mr. Blandy, fent to this Examinant, to afk his Opinion concerning fome Powder fhe had found in fome Wa- ter-Gruel, Part of which her Matter had drank ; that he took out of the laid Gruel the faid Powder, and that he has examined the fame,’’and fufpefts the fame to be Poi- fon ; and imagines the Powder which was given to the faid Francis Blandy, might be the Occafion of his Death, for that this Examinant believes he was poifoned. Taken on Oath the I §th Day of Auguft> 175L BEN. NORTON, before me RICHARD MILES. ELIZABETH BINFIELD, late Ser- j vant to Mr. Francis Blandy, deceafed,. upon her Oath faith, that about two Months ago flic heard Mils Mary Blandy his Daughter fay, Who would grudge to fend an old Father to Hell for 10.000 1. and faith, that fhe hath heard her often wifli her Father dead and at Hell j and that he would die next Ofiober : And faith, that the faid Mary Blandy a few Days fmee de¬ clared to. this. Examinant, that on 'Mon¬ day the 5th Day of Auguft Infant, foe tne faid Mary Blandy put fome Powder, which fhe called Love-Powder, into feme Yv ater-Grutl, which was given to and eat by her laid Father : And farther faith, that on the faid Monday her laid Matter drank fome of the Lid Wat. r-Gruel, and kith, that the faid Mary Blandy declared C ' to 1