THE TRYAL OF ....; Spinster; for the Murder of her Father, Francis Blandy, Gent. At the Assizes held at Oxford for the County of Oxford, on Saturday the 19th of February, 1752 before the Honourable Heneage Legge, Esq; and Sir Sydney Stafford . Knt. Two of the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer. Printed by permisison of the Judges

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1752 · London

by BLANDY, Mary
London: Rivington, 1752. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 74. Bound in modern calf-backed boards (front cover crudely repaired) Bound With: THE FEMALE PARRICIDE: OR THE HISTORY OF MARY-MARGARET d'AUBRAY, MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIER, who was beheaded and burnt at Paris, for poisoning her father, her two brothers, and attempting to kill her sister in the same manner... Translated from the French with a preface by the Translator in which a parallel is drawn between the Marchioness and Miss Blandy. Reading: C. Micklleweright, 1752. pp. viii, 52. Bound With: THE GENUINE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON, JOHN N STOCKDALE AND WILLIAM PEERS, executed for Murder, July 23, 1753. Containing a true narrative ... to which is added an account of the young Highwayman, Thomas Twinbrow, for robbing two graziers in the Edgeware Road, the manner of his being taken and trial. With two prints of Johnson, Stockdale, and Peers and wife. London: M Cooper, 1753, pp. 30. The three. Blandy was manipulated by her lover to poison her father with arsenic after he objected to their marriage rightly argung that the lover was already married. Blandy fed her father arsenic over a period of time and was found guilty and hanged on April 6, 1752. This is the text of the trial. (Inventory #: 60240)
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