The barbarous uncle, : being a true relation of one Esq; Solmes of Beverly in Yorkshire, who dying, left an only daughter, of about two years of age, to the care of his brother, who for covetousness of the child's estate of three hundred pounds a year, endeavour'd to starve it to death in a hollow tree in a wood; where it was found alive and preserv'd by a gentleman and his man, as they were hunting there the next day. With the manner of his apprehension, examination and com-mitment to York goal, in order to be try'd and punish'd for the same.
University of California, Santa Barbara.Early Modern Center.
London, England : Hills, Henry, II,
1706.
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