Save a thief from the gallows, and he'l hang thee if he can, or, The merciful father and the merciless son. To the tune of, Fortune my foe

People / Organizations

• J. Clarke ("printed for")
• George Sanders of Sugh (Author)

Imprint

London]: Printed for J. C[larke]. W. T[hackeray]. and T. P[assinger]., [between 1684 and 1686

Added name

Sanders, George, of Sugh. Confession and repentance of George Saunders, gent.

Publication year

1684-1686

ESTC No.

R187385

Grub Street ID

75670

Description

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 1°.

Note

Anonymous. According to an edition dated [1618?] by STC, written by George Saunders 1 January 1616

Place and date of publication from Wing

Verse - "You disobedient children mark my fall,"

In two parts, printed side by side. Part two has caption title: The confession and repentance of George Saunders, gentleman late of Sugh, in the connty [sic] of Hertford, who killed his own uncle, and accused his own father for the murder, but by Gods providence being discovered, dyed for the same whereas he wrote this song with his own hand

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 2, p. 196.

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