Manuscripts
A new ballad called the Northamptonshire High Constable
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- Description
- This bound volume contains a fictionalized dialogue account of a [real?] case of infanticide in Northamptonshire, England, in the 1630s, in which a Puritan preacher named Barker seduced young student Beatrice and conspired with her maidservant Ursula to murder the resulting child when it was born. All three reportedly hanged at Northamptonshire Assizes in 1637
- Production date
- approximately 1640.
- Call number
- mssHM 60666
- Provenance
- Purchased from Sotheby's, lot 297, December 15, 1999. Phillipps Ms. 12089; also owned at one time by F. Fermur Hesketh.
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