Lament of Peter M'Lean : now lying under sentence of death.
[Scotland? : s.n.,
1857]
Dated from internal evidence - Peter McLean was executed in Linlithgow on the 2nd February, 1857, for the murder of Thomas Maxwell the previous November, on the road between Bathgate and Durhamtown.
In one column.
First lines read: Come all kind hearted Christians, likewise my comrades dear, / Unto my lamentation I pray you lend an ear ; / I am a poor unfortunate man, I've brought myself to shame, / By straying in the ways of vice, myself I have to blame.
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