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Record Nr.

UNISA996390379903316

Autore

[Reddish William]

Titolo

Strange news from Stratton in Cornwal: or, A true relation of a cruel b[l]oody murther commited by one J.R. upon his own father, for lucre of enjoying his estate [[electronic resource] ] : who (after he had committed the fact, and laid the knife in the bed where his father lay) called in several neighbours to witness that his father had murthered himself; bu [sic] upon search, his shirt and breast were found besprinkled with his fathers blood; upon which search he fell in a swound, and after his recovery confest the fact, and is now in goal [sic] Written by one William Reddish, who was in Stratton at the same time when the murther was committed: and written since in a letter to Mr. Pearce Manaton in Windmill-Court in the Burcherrow near Temple-Barr, by his brother, living within half a mile of the said town. With allowance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : Printed for I. Coniers, at the sign of the Raven in Duck-Lane, [1680?]

Descrizione fisica

[2], 6 p

Soggetti

Murder - England

Parricide

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Place and date of publication from Wing.

Imperfect; pages stained with slight loss of text.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014