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A63612 The True narrative of the proceedings at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly, which began on Wednesday the 10th of this instant October, and ended on Saturday the 12th of the same month giving an account of all the remarkable tryals there, viz, for high-treason, murders, fellonies and burglaries &c., with the criminals, names and places of committing their facts, with the number of those condemn'd to be hang'd, transported, and to be whip [sic] England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex). 1683 (1683) Wing T2832; ESTC R12721 3,923 4

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