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Strange and wonderful news from Linconshire [sic]. Or a dreadful account of a most inhumane and bloody murther, : committed upon the body of one Mr. Carter, by the contrivance of his elder brother, who had hired three more villains to commit the horrid fact and how it was soon after found out, by the appearance of a most dreadful and terrible ghost, sent by Almighty Providence for the discovery. As also the manner of its appearance in several shapes and forms, with fresh bleeding wounds, still pursuing the murtherer from place, to place; with the relation how he endeavoured to conjure it down, and of its appearance and declaration of the murtherers, and of the confession of the murderer when apprehended, with many other remarkable circmstances [sic]. This was communicated in a letter to a gentleman of very good quality in London, the truth of which is attested under the hands of George Smith, James Simson, and Gregory Wilson, men of good repute and fame, living near Stampford