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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/A12/Box 2/1
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/13/2/2/1/5/1
TitleA Full and True Account of the Horrid Murders, Robberies, and Burnings, Committed at Bradforton and Upton Snodsbury
DescriptionA Full and True Account of the Horrid Murders, Robberies, and Burnings, Committed at Bradforton and Upton Snodsbury, in the County of Worcester; and of the Aprehension, Examination, Trial and Conviction of John Palmer and Thomas Symonds, Gents. and William Hobbins and John Allen, Labourers, for the said crimes [in 1708]. To which is added, An Account of the Bishop of Oxford's going to the Prisoners after their Condemation, and of his Lordship's whole Transaction with them:- Together with what passed between the Ordinary and the said Prisoners; and Remarks on their Dying Speeches. With an Account of a Charity School founded by Dr. Lloyd, the Bishop of Worcester, out of a forfeited Estate of Mr Palmer's, which fell to the said Bishop. Likewise, the Memoirs of the Life and Death of Sir John Dinely Goodere, Bart. Who was murdered by the Contrivance of his own Brother, Capt. Samuel Goodere, on Board the Ruby Man of War, in King-Road, near Bristol, Jan. 19, 1740-1. With engravings.

Volume inscribed "Dorset Cottage, Lark Hill nr Worcester. Presented to Bishop Lloyd's Charity School by Hyla Holden, Gent. (who became Treasurer in 1854) December 1841".
Date1782
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