A true and perfect account of the examination, confession, tryal, condemnation, and execution of Joan Perry and her two sons, John & Richard Perry, for the suppos'd murder of William Harrison, Gent. Being one of the most remarkable occurrences which hath hapned in the memory of man; sent in a letter (by Sir Thomas Overbury, of Burton, in the county of Gloucester, Kt. and one of His Majesty's justices of the peace) to Tho. Shirly, Dr. of physick in London. Also Mr. Harrison's own account how he was convey'd to Turky, and there made a slave above 2 years, when his master (who bought him there) dying, how he return'd to England, mean while suppos'd to be murder'd by his man-servant, who falsly accus'd his own mother, and brother, as guilty of the same, and were all three executed for it on Broadway-Hills in Gloucester-shire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Overbury, Thomas, Sir, -1684.

Contributor:

Harrison, William, active 1660.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harrison, William, active 1660.

Harrison, William.

Perry, Joan, -1660.

Perry, Joan.

Perry, Richard, -1660.

Perry, Richard.

Perry, John, -1660.

Perry, John.

Kidnapping--England.

Kidnapping.

Trials (Murder)--England.

Trials (Murder).

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages, 43 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. and R. Sprint, G. Conyers, and T. Ballard in Little-Britain, [1676?]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

With an initial imprimatur leaf, dated 1676.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1784:22) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) O614 Variant

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.