The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years / With their several characters from the best historians. As Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c., and a table shewing how the respective sentences were executed, and which of them were mitigated, or pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the State-tryals.

Date:
1720
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Credit: The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years / With their several characters from the best historians. As Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c., and a table shewing how the respective sentences were executed, and which of them were mitigated, or pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the State-tryals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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