EBBA 20769
Magdalene College - Pepys
| THE / Unfaithful Servant; / AND / The Cruel Husband. / Being a perfect and true account of one Judith Brown, / who together with her Master Iohn Cupper, conspired the Death of her Mistris, his / Wife, which accordingly they did accomplish in the time of Child-bed, when she lay / in with two Children, by mixing of her Drink with cruel Poyson; for which Fact / she received due Sentence of Death at the late Assizes in the County of Salop, to be / Burned; which was accordingly Executed upon the Old Heath near Shrewsbury, on / Thursday the Twenty-first day of August, 1684. | |
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| Date Published | 1684 |
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| Imprint | Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street, without Newgate. |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys |
| Page | 2.151 |
| Location | Pepys Library |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 2.151 |
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| Title | THE / Unfaithful Servant; / AND / The Cruel Husband. / Being a perfect and true account of one Judith Brown, / who together with her Master Iohn Cupper, conspired the Death of her Mistris, his / Wife, which accordingly they did accomplish in the time of Child-bed, when she lay / in with two Children, by mixing of her Drink with cruel Poyson; for which Fact / she received due Sentence of Death at the late Assizes in the County of Salop, to be / Burned; which was accordingly Executed upon the Old Heath near Shrewsbury, on / Thursday the Twenty-first day of August, 1684. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, The Rich Merchant: Or, George Barnwel. |
| First Lines | YOung Maidens all beware, / that sees my Dismal state, |
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| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 205 x 292 |
| Condition | holed surface, uneven inking |
| Ornament | funerary borders: 36 x 8, 8 x 130, 8 x 130, 156 x 8 |