The case of Miss Blandy

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• The genuine trial at large of Mary Blandy, spinster : for poisoning her late father Francis Blandy, gent. town-clerk of Henley upon Thames, Oxfordshire at the Assizes held at Oxford for the county of Oxford, on Tuesday the third day of March, 1752, before the Honourable Mr. Baron Legge, and the Honourable Mr. Baron Smythe.
• Miss Mary Blandy's own account of the affair between her and Mr. Cranstoun, from the commencement of their acquaintance, in the year 1746, to the death of her father in August 1751, with all the circumstances leading to that unhappy event : to which is added an appendix, containing copies of some original letters now in possession of the editor : together with an exact relation of her behaviour whilst under sentence, and a copy of the declaration signed by herself in the presence of two clergymen two days before her execution : published at her dying request.

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• Making of modern law

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