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Executions and executioners - Great Britain

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    The Wonders of free-grace, or, A compleat history of all the remarkable penitents that have been executed at Tyburn and elsewhere for these last thirty years : to which is added a sermon preached in the hearing of a condemn'd malefactor immediately before his execution.

    | Date: 1690
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    Prospectus of the Revolutionary Magazine, (to be continued weekly.) By a Society of Gentlemen

    | Date: 1795
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    The ordinary of Newgate his account of the behaviours, confessions, and last dying words of the malefactors that were executed at Tyburn on Friday the 29th of January, 1719-20

    | Purney, Thomas 1695-ca. 1727. | Date: 1720

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