1692: A HORRIBLE AND SHOCKING MURDER
A VERY RARE TRUE CRIME PAMPHLET.
[CAPITAL PUNISHMENT] [HOMICIDE] Henry Harrison. The last words of a dying penitent : being an exact account of the passages, proceedings, and reasons on which was grounded the first suspicion of his being concerned in the bloody, inhumane murder of Dr. Clinch, on the 4th of January 1691, between the hours of nine and eleven, with a brief observation on what was sworn by most of the witnesses against him, for which he was executed on the 15th of April 1692 ... :London : Printed, and are to be sold by Randal Taylor ..., 1692. 4to.[1], 31 pages ; 21 cm, some damp staining. A WIDE-MARGINED UNCUT COPY but with some marginal losses not affecting text to last leaves. VERY RARE. Worldcat lists only 5 copies; no copies appear in the sale records. Full modern calf.
\"Henry Harrison was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Dr. Andrew Clinch, who had loaned a large sum of money to Harrison’s friend, a widow, and had evicted her when she failed to repay him. Typically, many 17th- and 18th-century murder pamphlets take the form of the last words or confession of a person who has been sentenced to death.\"[SEE: \"Most Horrible and Shocking Murders at the National Library of Medicine:
