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Hallifax, and its gibbet-law placed in a true light. Together with a description of the town; the Nature of the Soil; the Temper and Disposition of the People; the Antiquity of its Customary Law, and the reasonableness thereof: With an Account of the Gentry, and other Eminent Persons Born and Inhabiting within the said Town, and the Liberties thereof: With many other Matters and Things of great Remark, never before Publish'd. To which are added, The Unparallel'd Tragedies committed by Sir John Eland, of Eland, and his Grand Antagonists.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bentley, William, parish clerk of Halifax.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal law--England--Halifax.
- Criminal law.
- Capital punishment--England--Halifax.
- Capital punishment.
- Halifax (Yorkshire).
- Eland, John, Sir.
- Eland, John.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([6],174p.,plate )
- Other Title:
- Hallifax,
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed by J. How, for William Bently, Halifax, in Yorkshire, 1708.
- Notes:
- The dedication signed: William Bently.
- This was reissued, with a cancel titlepage, in 1712 as 'The history of the famous town of Hallifax in Yorkshire'.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, T33072.
- OCLC:
- 642569844
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