Groans from the dungeon; or, The sorrowful lamentation of Peter Gray, : now under sentence of death, in the Tolbooth of this city..
[Glasgow] : Printed by Thomas Duncan, Saltmarket, Glasgow.,
[1800]
Peter Gray was executed on the 11th June 1800 for the crime of hamesucken - the seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house.
Verse in two columns.
First lines read: 'Mortals on various projects bent, / Attend the mournful cry, / Nor scorn the melancholy plaint / Of him condemn'd to die.
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Gray, Peter, -1800
Hamsocn
Executions and executioners
Scotland Glasgow.