Authentick memoirs of the wicked life and dying words of the late John Collington, of Throwleigh, in Kent; who was executed on Saturday, April 7, 1750, at Maidstone, for maliciously hiring John Stone and William Luckhurst, to set fire to the barns and ricks of Mr. John Clarke; in which is a full and particular Account of his unheard-of Cruelties, Acts of Revenge, and Malice; particularly to his first Wife and Children, and Neighbours, where-ever he lived: Together with his Behaviour during his Confinement in Goal to the Time of his Execution, and his last Dying Words. To which is added, a full account of the life and dying words of John Stone, for setting Fire to the Barn and Ricks of the said Mr. John Clarke; as also those of John Williams for house-breaking, and Francis Foster for robbing on the highway, who were all three executed at the same Time with Collington.

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[1750]
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London : printed for G. Griffith, the Corner of Elliot's Court, in the Little Old Bailey, [1750]

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11,[1]p. ; 40.

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The fourth edition, corrected.

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ESTC N16148

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