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Authentick memoirs of the wicked life and dying words of the late John Collington , of Throwleigh, in Kent; who was executed on Saturday, April 7, 1750, at Maidstone, for maliciously hiring John Stone and William Luckhurst, to set Fire to the Barn and Ricks of Mr. John Clarke; in which is a full and particular Account of his unheard-of Cruelties, Acts of Revenge, and Malice; particularly to his first Wife and Children, and Neighbours, where-ever he lived: Together with his Behaviour during his Confinement in Goal to the Time of his Execution, and his last Dying Words. To which is added, A full Account of the Life and Dying Words of John Stone, for setting Fire to the Barn and Ricks of the said Mr. John Clarke; as also those of John Williams for House-Breaking, and Francis Foster for robbing on the Highway, who were all three executed at the same Time with Collington.
Date: [1750]- E-books
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Memoirs and remarks geographical, historical, Topographical, Physical, Natural, Astronomical, Mechanical, Military, Mercantile, Political, and ecclesiastical. Made in above ten years travels through the empire of China: Particularly, upon Their Pottery and varnishing, Silk and other Manufactures, Pearl-Fishing, the History of Plants and Animals, with a Description of their Cities and Publick Works, Number of People, Manners, Language and Customs, Coin and Commerce, their Habits, Oeconomy, and Government, the Philosophy of the Famous Confucious. With many curious Particulars; being, in general, the most authentick Account of that Country. Written by the learned Lewis le Comte, Jesuit; Confessor to the Dutchess of Burgundy, and one of the French King's Mathematicians. A new translation from the best Paris edition, and adorn'd with copper-plates.
Le Comte, Louis, 1655-1728.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- E-books
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Authentick memoirs of the wicked life and dying words of the late John Collington , of Throwleigh, in Kent; who was executed on Saturday, April 7, 1750, at Maidstone, for maliciously hiring John Stone and William Luckhurst, to set Fire to the Barn and Ricks of Mr. John Clarke; in which is a full and particular Account of his unheard-of Cruelties, Acts of Revenge, and Malice; particularly to his first Wife and Children, and Neighbours, where-ever he lived: Together with his Behaviour during his Confinement in Goal to the Time of his Execution, and his last Dying Words. To which is added, a full account of the life and dying words of John Stone, for setting Fire to the Barn and Ricks of the said Mr. John Clarke; as also those of John Williams for House-Breaking, and Francis Foster for robbing on the Highway, who were all three executed at the same Time with Collington.
Date: [1750]- E-books
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Authentick memoirs of the Christian Church in China being a series of facts to evidence the causes of the declension of Christianity in that empire. By John Laurence de Mosheim, Chancellor of His Majesty's University of Gottingen. Translated from the German.
Mosheim, Johann Lorenz, 1694?-1755.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- E-books
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Memoires for Rome concerning the state of the Christian religion in China, with the decree of His Present Holiness Pope Clement XI. Concerning the affair of the Chinese worship. And the ordinance of My Lord Card. of Tournon upon the same subject, an. 1710
Date: 1710