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Title: Strange and wonderful news from Linconshire [sic], or, A dreadful account of a most inhumane and bloody murther committed upon the body of one Mr. Carter, by the contrivance of his elder brother, who had soon after found out, by the appearance of a most dreadful and terrible ghost, sent by Almighty Providence for the discovery as also, the manner of its appearance in several shapes and forms, with fresh bleeding wounds, still pursuing the murtherer from place to place, with the relation how he endeavoured to conjure it down, and of its appearance and declaration of the murtherers, and of the confession of the murderer when apprehended, with many other remarkable circmstances [sic] / this was communicated in a letter to a gentleman of very good quality in London, the truth of which is attested under the hands of George Smith, James Simson and Gregory Wilson, men of good repute and fame, living near Stampford.
Print source: Strange and wonderful news from Linconshire [sic], or, A dreadful account of a most inhumane and bloody murther committed upon the body of one Mr. Carter, by the contrivance of his elder brother, who had soon after found out, by the appearance of a most dreadful and terrible ghost, sent by Almighty Providence for the discovery as also, the manner of its appearance in several shapes and forms, with fresh bleeding wounds, still pursuing the murtherer from place to place, with the relation how he endeavoured to conjure it down, and of its appearance and declaration of the murtherers, and of the confession of the murderer when apprehended, with many other remarkable circmstances [sic] / this was communicated in a letter to a gentleman of very good quality in London, the truth of which is attested under the hands of George Smith, James Simson and Gregory Wilson, men of good repute and fame, living near Stampford.
London: [s.n.], 1679.
Notes:
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Subject terms:
Ghosts -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Apparitions -- Early works to 1800.
Lincolnshire (England) -- History -- 17th century.
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