Bloody news from Devonshire: being a true though lamentable relation of four barbarous and horrid murders, committed by an inhuman father upon the bodies of his son and three daughters, at a village near Combe in the county of Devon, on the 30th. of March, 1694. by beating out their brains with a mattock, whilst they were on their knees begging for their lives; and how afterward thro' remorse and reluctancy of mind, he attempted to hang himself, but was prevented by the timely coming in of some neighbours: also, the deplorable condition his wife is in, whom he pursued with an intent to murder. Together with his confession before a Justice of Peace, and commitment to Exon jayl, as it was communicated by a letter from an eminent dealer in Combe, to a worthy citizen in London

People / Organizations

• Randal Taylor ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")

Imprint

London: printed, and are to be sold by Randal Taylor near Amen Corner, 1694

Publication year

1694

ESTC No.

R18900

Grub Street ID

76715

Description

[2], 4 p. ; 4°.

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