The Last Confession, Prayers and Meditations of Lieuten. John Stern..

1682. London: Printed for Richard Chiswell, 1682.. London: Printed for Richard Chiswell, 1682. Confessions of the Men Who Murdered Thomas Thynne Burnet, Gilbert [1643-1715]. Horneck, Anthony [1641-1697]. The Last Confession, Prayers and Meditations of Lieuten. John Stern, Delivered by Him on the Cart Immediately Before His Execution, To Dr. Burnet. Together with the Last Confession of George Borosky, Signed by Him in the Prison, And Sealed Up in the Lieutenants Pacquet. With Which an Account is Given of their Deportment Both in the Prison and at the Place of their Execution, Which was in the Pall-Mall, On the Tenth of March, In the Same Place in which they had Murthered Thomas Thynn, Esquire, The Twelfth of February before, 1681/2. London: Printed for Richard Chiswell, At the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1682. [ii], 12, 15-28 pp. Complete. Folio (12-3/4" x 8-1/4"; 32 x 21 cm). Stab-stitched pamphlet, untrimmed edges, bound into later quarter sheep over paper-covered boards, gilt title to spine. Moderate rubbing, some wear to extremities, chipping to spine ends, joints starting at head. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing and soiling in a few places, additional manuscript page numbers to upper outside corners, early manicules to two pages. $300. * Only edition. While riding in his coach on February 12, 1862, Thomas Thynne was shot by three men, George Borosky, Christopher Vratz and John Stern. The three were suspected to have acted on the orders of Count Karl Johann von Konigsmark, who had been pursuing an affair with Thynne's wife. All four were arrested, and Konigsmark was charged as an accessory before the fact. The trial was apparently fraught with language barriers, since the men were all foreign nationals, but the three primary defendants were duly convicted and hanged on March 10, 1682. (Konigsmark escaped the noose himself, to some controversy.) English Short-Title Catalogue R35457. (Inventory #: 82962)