The strange and wonderful relation of a barbarous murder committed by James Robison
Subtitle: a brick-layer, upon the body of his own wife, at Spittle-Town, about a mile from Dochester, in the county of Dorcet, on the 11th. of July, 1679. who having lived a lascivious and most detestable life a considerable while, running on in all manner of debauchery, was at the last persaded by his friends to marry, which incontinently he did, but to the inevitable destruction of both; ... he did in an outragious manner lay violent hands on his vvife, beating her in such a terrible manner, ... he most inhumanely wrung her neck behind her, ... As also the full and true relation of a barbarous bloody murder committed by Richard Brown, a Romish-priest, at the town of Calleny, in Northumberland, upon the body of an infant, whom he murdered with a pen-knife and tying a stone about it's neck, casts it into a pond. Likewise an acount how he defloured a young gentlewoman, by whose uncle he was entertained as a father confessor, and what subtile ways he used to accomplish his design, and after her co
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1819:4
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1653
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Murder -- England -- Early works to 1800; Infanticide -- England -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: Identified on film as Wing R1726 (number cancelled)

Reproduction of the original at the Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) S5874A

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1987. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1819:4).