An Account of a most horrid and barbarous murther and robbery committed on the body of Captain Brown, a gentleman ... near Shrewsbury in Shropshire ... by his own tennant and servant and seven more villains, cutting off his head, putting it into a sack and burying it with the body in a hop-field ... with the most strange, wonderful and miraculous discovery of the same on Tuesday the 22d. of March, 1694, by the apparition of the gentlemans spirit to divers persons of good quality in the countrey ...

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An Account of a most horrid and barbarous murther and robbery committed on the body of Captain Brown, a gentleman ... near Shrewsbury in Shropshire ... by his own tennant and servant and seven more villains, cutting off his head, putting it into a sack and burying it with the body in a hop-field ... with the most strange, wonderful and miraculous discovery of the same on Tuesday the 22d. of March, 1694, by the apparition of the gentlemans spirit to divers persons of good quality in the countrey ...
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Edinburgh :: [s.n.],
1694.
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Brown, -- Captain, d. 1694?
Murder -- England -- Shropshire.
Broadsides -- England -- 17th century.
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"An Account of a most horrid and barbarous murther and robbery committed on the body of Captain Brown, a gentleman ... near Shrewsbury in Shropshire ... by his own tennant and servant and seven more villains, cutting off his head, putting it into a sack and burying it with the body in a hop-field ... with the most strange, wonderful and miraculous discovery of the same on Tuesday the 22d. of March, 1694, by the apparition of the gentlemans spirit to divers persons of good quality in the countrey ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A24353.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.

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