Price: £750
Subject: Law
Published Date: 1680
Stock Number: 73360
(Your basket is currently empty)Or, the case of Margret Clark, lately Executed for Firing her Masters House in Southwark. Faithfully relating the manner (as she affirmed to the last Moment of her life) how she was drawn in to that wicked Act; set forth under her own Hand after Condemnation. Her penitent Behaviour in Prison. Her Christitan Advice to Visiters, Discourses with several Minsiters, and Last Words at Execution. Impartially published, with the Attestations of Persons of Worth, and many substantial Eye and Ear Witnesses, whose Names are inserted in this Narrative.
Description: FIRST EDITION of this pamphlet, title with double-ruled border; uniformly toned with some browning to margins and the odd smudge, but a very good copy; pp. [8], 32, 4to; untrimmed in modern green straight grained morocco, gilt lettered spine.Publication Details: London: Printed for Tho. Pankhurst [...] and are to be Sold by Joseph Collier. 1680
Notes: Margret Clark was a domestic servant to wealthy dyer Mr. Delaney. While Delaney and his family were away at their second home, the family's main abode in Southwark, South London, was set on fire. Neighbours staunched the blaze, and Margaret was swiftly apprehended. She named soldier John Satterthwayt, alleging that he had promised to pay her handsomely for admittance to the house as part of a Catholic plot to set fire to London. They were both tried at Kingston assizes, but Satterthwayt was acquitted when he convinced the jury of his Protestantism, and when others of his regiment provided an a...more
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