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The high-way woman, or, A true and perfect narrative of the wicked life, and deplorable death of Marcy Clay, otherwise called Jenny Fox : who, being condemned to be hanged with other malefactors at Tyburn on Wednesday, the 12th of April instant, did on the Tuesday fore-going poyson her self, to avoid the shame of that kind of death / faithfully collected, for a warning to others, by one who hath too much cause to have knowledge of her conversation.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
One who hath too much cause to have knowledge of her conversation.
Contributor:
Leach, Thomas, active 1658-1669.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Fox, Jenny, -1665.
Fox, Jenny.
Women outlaws--England--Biography--Early works to 1800.
Women outlaws.
England.
Genre:
Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
Beaufoy, Henry B.H. (bookplate)
Newbold, C.B. (donor)
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages blank), 11 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portrait ; 21 cm
Other Title:
High-way woman
True and perfect narrative of the wicked life, and deplorable death of Marcy Clay, otherwise called Jenny Fox
Highway woman
Place of Publication:
[London] : [Printed by T.L.], [1665].
Notes:
Reprint. Probably by J. Compton, London, 182-?
Local Notes:
Bound with: The proctor and parator their mourning, or, The lamentation of the Doctors Commons for their downfall. London : Reprinted by J. Compton, [1820?] -- Danvers, John. The royal oake, or, An historical description of the royal progress, wonderful travels, miraculous escapes, and strange accidents of His Sacred Majesty Charles the II, third monarch of Great Britain. [London : Reprinted by J. Compton, 182-?]. -- Middleton, Thomas. A declaration published by Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight, Serjeant-Major-Generall, and Vice-Admirall for the sixe counties of North-Wales. [London : Reprinted by J. Compton, 182-?].
OCLC:
305135246

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