The Dreadful tragedy: or, The barbarous lover. In four parts. I. How a young squire fell in love with a beautiful young lady near Bristol, with their private Intreagues of love unknown to their parents. II. Shewing the falseness of the young gentleman, who left her for another love, after she had proved with child by him and how her cruel parents turn’d her out of doors, and afterwards in a wood she was delivered of a beautiful son and a daughter and how she sent a letter in hopes he would have compassion on her, and her two babes. III. How the squire upon receiving her letter, sent her to an Inn-keeper’s, where she had no been above six months before his new mistress hearing of it, told him, she would have nothing to say to him while his former mistress was alive; saying, if she should, she never should be happy. And how then he agreed with the Inn-keeper, to give him two thousand pounds to murder the young lady and her two babies. IV. How the Inn-keeper was taken up, and had before a justice, here he was charg’d with the murder, but deny’d it for a while, till the apparition of the mother and the two babies appeared, supriz’d him so, that he confessed the horrid fact, so that he confessed the horrid fact, so that he and the squire were both try’d , condemn’d, and hang’d for this inhuman and barbarous murder.

People / Organizations

• J. Smith ("printed by")

Imprint

London: Printed for J. Smith near Fleet-street, [1715?]

Publication year

1715-1715

ESTC No.

T197015

Grub Street ID

230272

Description

8p. : ill. ; 8⁰

Uncontrolled note

J. Smith at this address, near Fleet-street, in 1715 (Plomer)