Dying declarations - Early works to 1800
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The ordinary of Newgate his account , Of the Behaviour, Confession, and dying Words of the Malefactors, who were Executed on Monday the 24th of this Instant May, at Tyburn.
Purney, Thomas, 1695-ca. 1727.Date: 1725]- E-books
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The last speech and dying words of James Hamilton. In the parish of Kilmore in the county of Down; who was executed at Downpatrick for the bloody and hainous murder of William Lammon, the 17 of April, 1714.
Hamilton, James, d. 1714.Date: 1714- E-books
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Last dying speeches, birth, parentage, &c. of John Lewis , late drummer in the 3d regiment of Guards, for rioting at Charing Cross. Erick Han. Falck, for forgery, who were executed yesterday before the Debtor's Door, Newgate. Also an account of Thomas Hassel and Henry Hale, for burglary, who were to have been executed at the same time, but received a reprieve. To which is added, an affecting copy of a letter, sent by Erick Han. Falck, to the daughter of a respectable tradesman, whom he was to marry.
Lewis, John, drummer.Date: [1799?]- E-books
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The last speech, confession, and dying words of Griffith Williams , who was executed at the west end of the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 12th of March, 1800, and his body given to be publicly dissected, for the horrid murder of Anne Wilson, alias Bruce.
Williams, Griffith, 1775 or 6-1800.Date: [1800]- E-books
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The last speech , and dying testimony, of that Bloom of the Church The Reverend Mr. James Guthrie, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling: At his Death in Edinburgh, June 1. 1661; which he Wrote, a day or two before his Death, and left with some of his Friends, sealed and attested under his own Hand.
Guthrie, James, 1612?-1661.Date: 1783