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A song, on the confession and dying words of William Stevenson, merchant, late of North-Allerton, in the county of York, aged 27 years, who was executed at Durham on Saturday the 26th of August, 1727, for the barbarous murder of Mary Fawden, near Hartlepool in the bishoprick of Durham taken from his own mouth the night before his execution, by a person that went to visit him while in goal. To the tune of, Since CÃ¦lia's my foe

Description: ESTC N68213 ; "Good Lord! I'm undone, thy Face I would shun,". ; In this edition, the text is in two columns separated by an ornamental rule. The title and two woodcuts are above the first two columns. The first woodcut is a portrait of Stevenson and the second woodcut is a portrait of his execution by hanging.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1727?
Call number: 289784
Provenance: Purchased from Francis Edward, 1953. With the bookplate of C. W. Dyson Perrins. Previously bound with other ballads and broadside printed materials in a red grained morocco binding. The items were disbound and cataloged separately, see call numbers 289716-289788. The binding was retained, see call number: 195358.
Dimensions: (1/2 sheet)

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