Author: COLLINGTON (John)
Title: Authentick Memoirs of the Wicked Life and Dying Words of the late John Collington, of Throwleigh, in Kent, who was executed on Saturday, April 7, 1750, at Maidstone, for maliciously hiring John Stone and William Luckhurst, to set on Fire to the Barn and Ricks of Mr. John Clarke; in which is a full and particular Account of his unheard-of of Cruelties, Acts of Revenge, and Malice; particularly to his first Wife and Children, and Neighbours where-ever he lived: Together with his Behaviour during his Confinement in Goal to the Time of his Execution,.... To which is added of the Life and Dying Words of John Stone,.... as also those of John Williams for House-breaking, and Francis Foster for robbing on the Highway, who were all three executed at the same Time with Collington.
Description: London: Printed for G. Griffith, 1750. Second Edition, corrected, 4to, printed in double columns, 11, [1] pp., disbound. The ESTC locates the Cambridge University copy of the first edition (1750) and the British Library copy only of this second edition.

Keywords: Law Trial CRIME MURDER ANTIQUARIAN THROWLEIGH KENT