The most sad and deplorable case of Robert Blackburne, John Bernardi, and Robert Cassills, : |b humbly offer'd against the bill now depending in Parliament, for continuing their imprisonment, after a confinement worse than death, by them already undergone, of upwards of one and thirty years in Newgate..
Blackburne, Robert,prisoner in Newgate.
Bernardi, John,1657-1736.
Cassills, Robert.
[London : s.n.,
1727]
Blackburne and the others were imprisoned in 1696, accused of plotting to assassinate William III; they were held in prison without trial for many years thereafter, under provision of acts of Parliament.
Dated: Newgate, 5th of July 1727.
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Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides,
Actions and defenses
Imprisonment