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Murderers - Early works to 1800

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    A genuine account of Anne Whale and Sarah Pledge, who were tried and condemned at the assizes held at Horsham in the county of Sussex, before the right Honble Sir John Willes, Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, and Sir Thomas Denison, Knt, one of his Majesty's Justices, the 20th of July, 1752...

    | Date: [1752]
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    Gods judgment against murderers . Or, an account of a cruel and barbarous murther, Committed on Thursday Night, the 14th of August, at Sadler's Musick-House near Islington, on the Body of Mr. Waite, a Lieutenant of a Man of War, by one Mr. French, a Lawyer of the Temple; shewing how they Quarrell'd about Women. With an Account of his Examination before the Worshipful Justice Ward, and his Commitment to Newgate. To which is added, the dreadful fate of a young gentleman who murder'd his own mother, and the Terrible End he came to.

    | Date: 1712

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