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Item #88 A VINDICATION OF THE Conduct of the Ministry, IN THE Scheme of the Excise ON WINE and...
Fighting Wine Fraud in Great Britain.

A VINDICATION OF THE Conduct of the Ministry, IN THE Scheme of the Excise ON WINE and TOBACCO

London: J. Roberts, 1734.
Only Edition. Robert Walpole, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and most influential politician in Great Britain, had come about his power by avoiding foreign wars, and had elevated his popularity (at least among the landed gentry) by reducing the land tax from £4 to £1 over.....

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Item #12 Nova relaçaõ do rigoroso castigo : que padeceo em hum cadafalso o cruel assassino...
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Nova relaçaõ do rigoroso castigo : que padeceo em hum cadafalso o cruel assassino Jacintho Yorc, na cidade de Transilvania a 19 de julho de 1765. por matar tyrannamente a sua mulher Luciana Kin. Caso horrivel e exemplar o qual se expoem ao publico Por noticia certa participada daquellas partes a hum conrespondente desta Corte. [Ornaments] LISBOA: MDCCLXV. Na Officina de ignacio nogueira xisto. Com todas as licenças necessa ias.

Lisbon: 1765.
Chapbook report of the trial and sentencing of one Jacintho Yorc for the "tyrannical" murder of his young wife, Luciana Kin, in Transylvania in July of 1765. Much of the reportage centers around the sensationally grisly torture and execution of Yorc, who was burned with red-hot irons, his.....

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