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BG.750.015
20 Nov 1750:13 (1601)
Extract of a letter from Cork, Sept. 12. Counsellor Mead's
servant, who was lately condemn'd for robbing his master, &
order'd for execution yesterday, was brought to the gallows
about five o'clock in the evening, guarded by the sheriff
and about 20 men, attended by the minister and clerk,
singing psalms with him all the way; where after staying an
hour, he was tied up, but had not hung more than a minute,
when the mob, seeing a man in a white jacket, running
towards them excessively fast, cried out a reprieve, cut him
down, and carried him clear off; but when the fellow came
up, it prov'd to be only Sir John Freke's footman, running
before his lady, who was then coming into Cork in her coach
and six. It is imagin'd there were at least 20,000 persons
present.
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