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A warning-piece to all gamesters, or, The bloody murther committed upon Mr. Edward Price a lawyers clarke of the Temple, as he passed from the gaming-house in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields on Saturday morning being the 20th of June, 1663 [[electronic resource] ] : with the manner how he was killd at the end of Portugal-Row, by two game-sters, who (after he had won near two hundred pound in gold and silver) persued him, and bid him stand, and drawing upon him, ran him into the right breast and neck, and also wounded him in the left arm, whereby he fell down dead, and they seized on his rapier, cut out his pockets, took away all his mony, hat and cloak, and so betook themselves to flight, one of the murtheres (nam'd Digby) being discovered by a box-keeper belonging to the ordinary, who was teken upon suspicion : also the verdict of the coroner and his jury, who sat upon the murthered gentleman at the Nags-Head near Turn-Style, on Saturday in the afternoon |
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