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A40586 A Full and true relation of a most barbarous and dreadful murder committed on the body of Mrs. Kirk, wife of Edmund Kirk, drawer at the Rose-Tavern in Pye-Corner, on Sunday, May the 25th, 1684, whose body was found in a pit near Tyburn, supposed to be murder'd by her aforesaid husband 1684 (1684) Wing F2315C; ESTC R11370 1,752 3

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