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Capital Punishment.

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Capital Punishment.
The Dying Speeches and Behaviour Of the several State Prisoners That have been Executed the last 300 Years..., "and a Table shewing how the respective Sentences were Executed...." London: Printed for J. Brotherton and W. Meadows, at the Black-Bull in Cornhill, et al, 1720. 4 3/4 x 8, 495 + 1 p. publisher's advertisement. Rebound in milk chocolate library buckram, cream endleaves. From clerk William Thorpe (1407) and Sir Thomas More (executed 1535), to Mary Queen of Scots, Charles I, and many dozens of others, the words of the doomed in Old England. "I vow that I never sent Agents to Rome, or to any other Court...And 'tis well known...that Clergy-men (living in Countries where the Government is not of Roman Catholicks) are commanded by Rome, not to write to Rome..." (from "The last Speech of Mr. Oliver Plunket, Titular Primate of Ireland...executed at Tyburn...1681," p. 377). Some occasional minor foxing, else internally very fine, many passages fresh and clean, and binding choice. An unusual compilation, filled with eloquence and drama. WorldCat locates only four examples (Danish Union Catalogue, French National Library, and two in British Library). ESTC T11590.