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The execution narrative was a popular genre in early modern England. This facsimile edition draws together a representative selection of texts to show the evolution of the genre from the late sixteenth century to the end of public execution in England nearly 300 years later.
Volume 1 General Introduction Introduction to Part I Public Execution in England, 1573–1674 Introduction Arthur Golding, A Briefe Discourse of the Late Murther of Master George Saunders (1573) The Manner of the Death and Execvtjon of Arnold Cosbie (1591) The Araignement and Execvtjon of the Late Traytors (1606) ‘A True Relation of All Such Things as Passed at the Execution of M.Garnet’ (1606) The Lives, Apprehension, Araignment & Execution of Robert Throgmorton. William Porter. Iohn Bishop (1608) The Araignement & Burning of Margaret Ferne-seede (1608) The Life, Apprehensio[n,] Arraignement, and Execution of Char[les] Covrtney ... an[d] Clement Slie (1612) The Murder of Th omas Overbury [1615] 1The Lieutenant of the Tower his Speech and Repentance [1615] The Bloody Downfall of Adultery, Murder, Ambition, at the end of which are added the Westons, and Mistris Turners last teares, shed for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury [1615] Franklins Farewell to the World, with his Christian Contrition in Prison, before his Death [c. 1615] A Pitilesse Mother [1616] Henry Goodcole, A True Declaration of the Happy Conuersion, Contri[1]tion, and Christian Preparation of Francis Robinson (1618) Thomas Cooper, The Cry and Reuenge of Blood Expressing the Nature and Haynousness of Wilfull Murther (1620) The Prayer and Confession of Mr. Felton [1628] A True Relation of a Barbarous and Most Cruell Murther [Com]mitted by one Enoch ap Euan (1633) The Apprentices Warning-piece. Being a Confession of Peter Moore (1641) The Execution of William Waller [1641] A Most True Relation of the Attachment, Life, Death, and Confession of Will. Waller (1641) The Confession of a Papist Priest, who was Hanged Drawn and Quartred at Tiburne, for Seducing the Kings People [1641] The Execution of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (1641) The Truest Relation of the Earl of Straffords Speech in the Scaff old (1641) A Protestation Against a Foolish, Ridiculous and Scandalous Speech, Pretended to be Spoken by Thomas Wentworth, Late Earle of Strafford (1641) New Matters of Note Made Knowne to this Kingdome (1641) An Exact Relation of the Apprehension, Examination, Execution, and Confession, of Thomas Bullaker (1642) Editorial Notes
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Leigh Yetter
