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A39567 Fair warnings to murderers of infants being an account of the tryal, codemnation [sic] and execution of Mary Goodenough at the assizes held in Oxon in February, 1691/2 together with the advice sent by her to her children, in a letter sign'd by her own hand the night before she was executed, with some reflections added upon the whole : printed for the publick good. 1692 (1692) Wing F105; ESTC R31491 18,323 20

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