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A94921 A True and impartial account of the birth, parentage, education, life, and conversation of Edmund Audley who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the 22d of June, 1698, for the barbarous murther of Mrs. Hannah Bullevant in St. Martins Le Grand, near Aldersgate : as also, an account of his marriage to a ministers daughter at Exeter ... to which is added, the particulars of his tryal and condemnation ... 1698 (1698) Wing T2490; ESTC R43783 4,745 11

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