A True and perfect account of the examination, confession, trial, condemnation and execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John and Richard Perry, for the supposed murder of Will. Harrison, gent. : Being one of the most remarkable occurrences which hath happened in the memory of man. Sent in a letter (by Sir Thomas Overbury, of Burton, in the county of Gloucester, Knt. and one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace) to Thomas Shirly, doctor of physick, in London. Also Mr. Harrison's own account how he was conveyed to Turkey, and there made a slave above two years, when his master (who bought him there) dying, he returned to England; being, in the mean while, supposed to be murdered by his man-servant, who falsely accused his own mother and brother as guilty of the same, and were all three executed for it on Broadway-Hills, in Gloucestershire.

Format:

Book

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trials (Murder)--England--Early works to 1800.

Trials (Murder).

Kidnapping--England--Early works to 1800.

Kidnapping.

England.

Physical Description:

31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for John Atkinson, near the Chapter-House, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, [1750?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T176595.

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