Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold

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Bleackley Horace. Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold

Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold

Table of Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE LOVE PHILTRE. THE CASE OF MARY BLANDY, 1751–2

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BLANDY CASE

I. Contemporary Tracts

II. Contemporary Newspapers and Magazines

Notes

THE UNFORTUNATE BROTHERS. THE CASE OF ROBERT AND DANIEL PERREAU AND MRS MARGARET CAROLINE RUDD, 1775–6

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PERREAU CASE

I. Contemporary Tracts

II. Contemporary Newspapers and Magazines

THE SONG “ROBIN ADAIR”

THE KING’S ENGRAVER. THE CASE OF WILLIAM WYNNE RYLAND, 1783

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE RYLAND CASE

I. Contemporary Authorities

II. Contemporary Newspapers and Magazines

Notes

A LIST OF WILLIAM WYNNE RYLAND’S ENGRAVINGS (By Ruth Bleackley.)

BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS

A SOP TO CERBERUS. THE CASE OF GOVERNOR WALL, 1782–1802

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WALL CASE

I. Contemporary Tracts

II. Contemporary Newspapers and Magazines

NOTES

THE KESWICK IMPOSTOR. THE CASE OF JOHN HADFIELD, 1802–3

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HADFIELD CASE

I. Contemporary Tracts, etc

II. Contemporary Newspapers and Magazines

Notes

A FAMOUS FORGERY. THE CASE OF HENRY FAUNTLEROY, 1824

Part I.—The Criminal and his Crime

Part II.—Some Details of the Forgeries

FAUNTLEROY AND THE NEWSPAPERS

NOTES ON THE FAUNTLEROY CASE

INDEX

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Horace Bleackley

Published by Good Press, 2019

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“I have put no powder into tea,” replied Miss Blandy. “I have put powder into water gruel, and if you are injured,” she assured her father, “I am entirely innocent, for it was given me with another intent.”

The dying man did not wait for further explanation, but, turning in his bed, he cried:

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