The dreadful and ruinous effects of dram drinking / elucidated in Mr. Poynder's affecting, important and interesting evidence before the Committee of the Honourable House of Commons, appointed to investigate into the state of the police of the metropolis ... ; to which is annexed, a letter from Mr. Upton, giving an account of the direful effects of dram-drinking.

  • Poynder, John, 1779-1849.
Date:
[1817?]
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Credit: The dreadful and ruinous effects of dram drinking / elucidated in Mr. Poynder's affecting, important and interesting evidence before the Committee of the Honourable House of Commons, appointed to investigate into the state of the police of the metropolis ... ; to which is annexed, a letter from Mr. Upton, giving an account of the direful effects of dram-drinking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECOND EDITION. ADDRESS to the METHODISTS. •-.itfgj-'s.-- THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY Trial, and Conviction OF JAMES ASHCROFT the Elder, DAVID ASHCROFT his Brother, JAMES ASHCROFT the Younger, and WILLIAM HOLDEN, FOR THE HORRIBLE anti JWurtser OF Margaret Marsden and Hannah Partington, In the open Day at Pendleton, Lancaster : WITH THEIRS a \ *••* ■> fi <x 1 • ' Y , ^ .... i Remarkable Behaviour and awful Protestations of INNOCENCE In Court, on being found Guilty. TAKEN IN SHORT HAND, VERBATIM, BY JAMES HODGSON, Short-hand Writer, Lancaster. €To to!nd) atsttob, AUTHENTIC and HIGHLY INTERESTING LIVES OF THE CULPRITS, Including copious Details of their Execution, AND THE WHOLE OF THEIR SINGULAR SPEECHES ON THE SCAFFOLD, Protesting their Innocence to the last Moment, AND DYING IN THE ACT OF SINGING A HYfiN. WITH A PREFACE, On the probable Innocence of the Sufferers on this most unprecedented Case. K This is murdering us in cold blood, and because so many lies have been told of us. I pray that God Almighty would even now send down upon that table the two angels of these murdered women, to testify who committed the Murder. We are innocent, and 1 will declare it so to the last:” James Ashcroft the Elder's Speech on Sentence being pronounced- LQNDON: Printed by and for G. Smeeton, 17, St. Martin’s Lane, Chaiipg Cross, fPRICF. SIXPENCE.! - --