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Barbarous and bloody news from the parish of St. Giles's: : being a true account of two horrid murders, committed on the bodies of a vvidow gentlewoman, and her neice, on Saturday the 13th. instant. By most cruelly cutting their thoats [sic], and afterwards robbing them, in a coffee-house in Short's Gardens, between the hours of five and six in the morning; whose bodies are still to be seen, as a dismal spectacle of humane misery

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1690.
Call number: 89644
Dimensions: (1/2 sheet)
Associated organization: Bridgewater House Library,
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