The last speech, confession, and dying words, of a Queen Ann's guinea : who was tried, and condemned, on a late act of Parliament, for being too light ; and executed by the unmerciful hands of a butcher, in Salisbury market.

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The last speech, confession, and dying words, of a Queen Ann's guinea : who was tried, and condemned, on a late act of Parliament, for being too light ; and executed by the unmerciful hands of a butcher, in Salisbury market.