The Gloucestershire tragedy. Being an account of Miss Mary Smith in Thornbury, who poison'd her father Sir John Smith, for love of a young man, with an account of her tryal and dying speech at the place of execution, wich [sic] was in Gloucester Maket-Place [sic], at the last assizes you have also the text of her funeral-sermon, which was preach'd the morning before her execution; the words of the text are as follows, Psal, 119 verse 11, let the sight of the prisoner come before the, preserve thou them that are appointed to die. Also an account how the young man died for grief, &c.

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[1776?]
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Glocestershire tragedy

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[London] : Sold near the Fleet-market, [1776?]

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12p. : ill. ; 240.

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ESTC T163058

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