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Record Nr.

UNISA996391635503316

Titolo

Deeds against nature, and monsters by kinde [[electronic resource] ] : tryed at the goale deliuerie of Newgate, at the sessions in the Old Bayly, the 18. and 19. of Iuly last, 1614. the one of a London cripple named Iohn Arthur, that to hide his shame and lust, strangled his betrothed wife. The other of a lasciuious young damsell named Martha Scambler, which made away the fru[i]t of her own womb, that the world might not see the seed of her owne shame: which two persons with diuers others vvere executed at Tyburne the 21. o[f] Iuly folowing. With two sorrowfull ditties of these two aforesaid persons, made by themselues in Newgate, the night before their execution

Pubbl/distr/stampa

At London, : Printed [by G. Eld] for Edward Wright, 1614

Descrizione fisica

[12] p

Soggetti

Trials (Murder) - England

Trials (Infanticide) - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Printer's name from STC.

With woodcut title vignettes.

Partly in verse.

"The cripples complaint in the dungeon at Newgate" and "Martha Scamblers repentance" have caption title.

Signatures: A⁴ B² .

Some print faded and show-through.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014