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 : 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 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 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.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

[Reddish, William].

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2055:24.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--England--Early works to 1800.

Murder.

Parricide--Early works to 1800.

Parricide.

England.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 6 pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

Place and date of publication from Wing.

Imperfect; pages stained with slight loss of text.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1991. 1 microfilm reel 35mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 2055:24). s1991 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) R658.

OCLC:

55722312