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The county seats of Shropshire : a series of descriptive sketches, with historical and antiquarian notes, of the principal family mansions (1891)

Leach, Francis · Shrewsbury : Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal Office · leaf 147

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—whether by accident or design we know not—theywere not immediately killed by the act of the hangman, but remained suspended in a livingstate and were kept alive for a time by an old woman from a neighbouring village, whoministered to them at night and fed them with candle ends ! We tell the tale… … 1 (88)

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