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Title The gardner at the gallows : for buggerie laid to his charge. Being a true narrative of a strange and admirable passage of Gods providence in the reprieve of Thomas Rivers gardner, living at St. Giles in Southampton buildings; who being indicted for buggering his apprentice Henry Wells, a lad about 15 years of age, was condemned on Friday the 13. of this instant December, at the Old-Bayly sessions, and drawn to Tyburn the Wednesday following, about 10 a clock; where being tied up, the lad and his mother being present, they declare the wrong they had done him; and who thereupon was reprieved. Also the passages between the master and servant when brought back. Written by one who was an eye and ear witness.
Alternative Title Innocency reprieved.
Gardener at the gallows, for buggery laid to his charge.
Publication Info [London? : s.n., 1667]



Descript [2], 6 p.
Note Place of publication conjectured by cataloger; publication date supplied by Wing.
Title page woodcut.
Caption title on p. 1 reads: Innocency reprieved, or The gardener at the gallows, for buggery laid to his charge.
Cropped at foot with loss of imprint.
Reproduction of the original in the Guildhall Library, London.
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Series Early English books online.
Subject Rivers, Thomas, gardner
Wells, Henry, 1652-
Crime -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Criminals -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Trials (Sodomy) -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Innocency reprieved.
Gardener at the gallows, for buggery laid to his charge.
Descript [2], 6 p.
Note Place of publication conjectured by cataloger; publication date supplied by Wing.
Title page woodcut.
Caption title on p. 1 reads: Innocency reprieved, or The gardener at the gallows, for buggery laid to his charge.
Cropped at foot with loss of imprint.
Reproduction of the original in the Guildhall Library, London.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Rivers, Thomas, gardner
Wells, Henry, 1652-
Crime -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Criminals -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Trials (Sodomy) -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Innocency reprieved.
Gardener at the gallows, for buggery laid to his charge.

Subject Rivers, Thomas, gardner
Wells, Henry, 1652-
Crime -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Criminals -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Trials (Sodomy) -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [2], 6 p.
Note Place of publication conjectured by cataloger; publication date supplied by Wing.
Title page woodcut.
Caption title on p. 1 reads: Innocency reprieved, or The gardener at the gallows, for buggery laid to his charge.
Cropped at foot with loss of imprint.
Reproduction of the original in the Guildhall Library, London.

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