Fk.5.04(22)
The case of John Palmer and Thomas Symonds Gentlemen. Executed near Worcester on the 7th of May 1708, upon the evidence of Gyles Hunt, who having obtain'd his own pardon, charg'd them to have been concern'd with himself in the murther of Mrs. Alice Palmer, mother to the said Mr. John Palmer, and her maid : With the letter of the said two gentlemen to the Lord Bishop of Oxon, asserting their innocence, and giving an account how they were prevail'd on to confess themselves guilty, by some who put them in hopes of a pardon on that condition. His Lordship's answer, with a form of prayer he compos'd and sent them. Mr. Palmer's letter to a noble lord in London on the day of his death, denying the fact. And Mr. Palmer and Mr. Symonds's dying speeches; wherein they deny it upon their salvation. Publish'd according to their dying request to the gentleman to whom they gave these papers.
[London] : Printed for B. Bragge in Pater-Noster-Row, 1708.
[2], 23, [1]p ; 21cm. (4to).
With a prefatory letter signed: R. W.
Bound with twenty-one other items.
Ms. contents list on flyleaf.
Previously: Dm.5.4.
ESTC T96499
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 6526, no. 17).
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731.
Ms. inscription in pencil: "Checked March 1924".
18th century quarter brown calf; red and blue marbled paper covered boards; four raised bands; spine title: "Political tracts".
Bragge, Benjamin printer.
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
England London.
B22994