An impartial account of the life, character, and behaviour, of the Rev. Peter Vine, who was executed at Heavy-Tree gallows, in the county of Devon
Subtitle: For a rape and murder! The first committed on the body of a child 11 years of age, belonging to Mrs. Dark, in the aforesaid county, and the second on the body of Roger Ashton, who went to apprehend him after he had committed the fact. With the remarkable speech he made to the populace, at the place of execution; together with a prayer he made use of while under a sentence of death
Publisher: Printed by John Evans, 42, Long-lane, London.
Published: 1798
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Rape; Early works to 1800; Poetry; Murder; Executions and executioners
Other titles: Execution of the Rev. Peter Vine.
Notes: Caption title, p. [2]: Execution of the Rev. Peter Vine.

Rev. Peter Vine was executed on August 8, 1743.

Date of imprint based on work of David Stoker supplementary to his article "John Marshall, John Evans and the Cheap Repository Tracts" (Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 107:1 (March 2013), p. 81-118.[

Wood engravings: title page portrait of Vine; scene of a condemned man mounting the gallows, p.6.

Verse account of the events, p. 8.

Unsigned; [A]⁴

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ESTC N504327