Title: | Halifax and its gibbet-law placed in a true light : together with a description of the town, the nature of the soil, the temper and disposition of the people, the antiquity of its customary law, and the reasonableness thereof ; with an account of the gentry, and other eminent persons born and inhabiting within the said town, and the liberties thereof ; with many other matters and things of great remark never before publish'd ; to which are added the tragedies committed by Sir John Eland, of Eland, and his grand antagonists. |
Author: | Midgley, Samuel, -1695 |
Author: | Bentley, William |
Note: | Printed by P. Darby for J. Bentley, 1761 |
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Subject: | Capital punishment -- England -- Halifax |
Subject: | Criminal law -- England -- Halifax |
Subject: | Eland, John, Sir |
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