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A49631 The Last dying speeches and confessions of the prisoners who were executed on Friday the twenty-second of this instant October and more especially of Francis Nicholson who is to be hanged in chains upon Hounslow-Heath for barbarously murthering Mr. Dimbleby of Hampton-court for the promised reward of forty shillings : and of the penitence of Ralph Markland, a notorious clipper, who was reprieved : as also of John Neale who was executed at Tyburn : with the behaviour of those other five who received sentence the last sessions, but three were repeived and two received pardons. 1680 (1680) Wing L482; ESTC R28766 5,018 4

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