Trial of Mary Blandy
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Trial of Mary Blandy, Edited by William Roughead
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TRIAL OF MARY BLANDY
Edited By
WILLIAM ROUGHEAD
ILLUSTRATED
1914
PREFACE
CONTENTS
APPENDICES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
MARY BLANDY.
INTRODUCTION
LEADING DATES IN THE BLANDY CASE
THE TRIAL
The Indictment—
Evidence for the Prosecution—
The Prisoner's Defence[12]—
Evidence for the Defence—
Charge to the Jury—
APPENDICES
APPENDIX I.
PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE CORONER RELATIVE TO THE DEATH OF MR. FRANCIS BLANDY.
I.—Depositions of Witnesses.
II.—Verdict of Jury.
III.—Warrant for Committal of Mary Blandy.
APPENDIX II.
COPIES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, RELATING TO THE CASE OF MARY BLANDY.
APPENDIX III.
A LETTER FROM A CLERGYMAN TO MISS MARY BLANDY, NOW A PRISONER IN OXFORD CASTLE; WITH HER ANSWER THERETO. AS ALSO MISS BLANDY'S OWN NARRATIVE OF THE CRIME FOR WHICH SHE IS CONDEMNED TO DIE.
APPENDIX IV.
MISS MARY BLAND'S OWN ACCOUNT OF THE AFFAIR BETWEEN HER AND MR. CRANSTOUN, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THEIR ACQUAINTANCE IN THE YEAR 1746 TO THE DEATH OF HER FATHER IN AUGUST, 1751, WITH ALL THE CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING TO THAT UNHAPPY EVENT.
APPENDIX V.
LETTER FROM MISS BLANDY TO A CLERGYMAN IN HENLEY.
APPENDIX VI.
CONTEMPORARY ADVERTISEMENT OF A LOVE PHILTRE.[28]
APPENDIX VII.
CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION OF MARY BLANDY.
APPENDIX VIII.
LETTER FROM THE WAR OFFICE TO THE PAYMASTER-GENERAL, STRIKING CRANSTOUN'S NAME OFF THE HALF PAY LIST.
APPENDIX IX.
THE CONFESSIONS OF CRANSTOUN.
I.—Cranstoun's Own Version of the Facts.
II.—Captain Cranstoun's Account of the Poisoning of the Late Mr. Francis Blandy.
APPENDIX X.
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM DUNKIRK ANENT THE DEATH OF CRANSTOUN.
APPENDIX XI.
LETTER FROM JOHN RIDDELL, THE SCOTS GENEALOGIST, TO JAMES MAIDMENT, REGARDING THE DESCENDANTS OF CRANSTOUN.
APPENDIX XII.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BLANDY CASE.
I. CONTEMPORARY TRACTS.
II. CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES.
APPENDIX XIII.
DESCRIPTION OF SATIRICAL PRINT, "THE SCOTCH TRIUMVIRATE."
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