The Essex hue and cry being a true, particular, and exact account of that barbarous, bloody, cruel, and inhuman murder ...

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Title: The Essex hue and cry being a true, particular, and exact account of that barbarous, bloody, cruel, and inhuman murder ...
Published / Created: [not before 8 September 1782]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: s.n.
Description: Caption title.
Title continues: which was committed on Sunday last, in White Post Lane, near East Ham, in the county of Essex, upon Richard Moss, a youth only 14 years of age, who was robbed and murdered by a footpad.
In one column with title and woodcut above; no rules or onamental type present.
Date of publication conjectured based on date of the crime 8 September 1782. The murderer was executed on 10 March 1783.
First line: Sunday last the following bloody murder was committed upon the body of an unhappy youth, without the least provocation ...
Mounted on leaf 33. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Provenance: One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 32 x 17 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Broadsides
Woodcuts England 18th century
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Subject (Geographic): England
Essex
Subject (Topic): Murder
Deaths head
Skull & crossbones
Hourglasses
Banners
Subjects: Murder > England > Essex > Early works to 1800
Deaths head
Skull & crossbones
Hourglasses
Banners
England > 18th century

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