The life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett, apprentice to an attorney at law. Who for a murder which he never committed, was tried, condemned, executed, and hung in chains, in old England: yet lived many years afterwards, and in his travels found the man in the West Indies actually alive; for the supposed murder of whom he had been really executed. Demonstratively proving, that condemnations upon circumstantial evidence are injurious to innocence, incompatible with justice, and therefore ought always to be discountenanced, especially in cases of life and death.

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• The life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett, apprentice to an attorney at law. Who for a murder which he never committed, was tried, condemned, executed, and hung in chains, in old England: yet lived many years afterwards, and in his travels found the man in the West Indies actually alive; for the supposed murder of whom he had been really executed. Demonstratively proving, that condemnations upon circumstantial evidence are injurious to innocence, incompatible with justice, and therefore ought always to be discountenanced, especially in cases of life and death.
• Life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett

People / Organizations

• Isaac Bickerstaff (Author)

Imprint

Hudson [N.Y.]: Printed and sold by Ashbel Stoddard, M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]

Publication year

1786-1786

ESTC No.

W19273

Grub Street ID

328927

Description

23,[1]p. ; 12⁰

Note

Attributed to Isaac Bickerstaff in the Dictionary of national biography.

Uncontrolled note

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