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A song, on the confession and dying words of William Stevenson, merchant, late of North-Allerton, in the county of York, aged 27 years, who was executed at Durham on Saturday the 26th of August, 1727, for the barbarous murder of Mary Fawden, near Hartlepool in the bishoprick of Durham taken from his own mouth the night before his execution, by a person that went to visit him while in goal. To the tune of, Since CÃ¦lia's my foe

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Title: A song, on the confession and dying words of William Stevenson, merchant, late of North-Allerton, in the county of York, aged 27 years, who was executed at Durham on Saturday the 26th of August, 1727, for the barbarous murder of Mary Fawden, near Hartlepool in the bishoprick of Durham taken from his own mouth the night before his execution, by a person that went to visit him while in goal. To the tune of, Since CÃ¦lia's my foe
Date Created and/or Issued: 1727
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Printed Books
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: ESTC N68213 ; "Good Lord! I'm undone, thy Face I would shun,". ; In this edition, the text is in two columns separated by an ornamental rule. The title and two woodcuts are above the first two columns. The first woodcut is a portrait of Stevenson and the second woodcut is a portrait of his execution by hanging.
Type: text
Format: Image
Extent: 1 sheet : ill. ; (1/2 sheet)
Identifier: 289784
280990
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll3/id/5622
Subject: Broadsides. (rbgenr)
Broadside poems. (rbgenr)
Source: Printed Books, Huntington Digital Library

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