• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: A sorrowful spectacle : In two sermons, occasioned by a just sentence of death, on a miserable woman, for the murder of a spurious offspring. The one declaring, the evil of an heart hardened, under and against all means of good. The other describing, the fearful case of such as in a suffering time, and much more such as in a dying hour, are found without the fear of God. With some remarkable things, relating to the criminal; proper for all to be informed of. By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. [One line from Acts]
  • Contributor: Mather, Cotton [Author]; Gerrish, Samuel [bookseller.]; Crump, Thomas [printer.]; Fleet, Thomas [printer.]
  • imprint: Boston: Printed by T. Fleet & T. Crump, for Samuel Gerrish, on the north side of the Town-House, in King-Street, 1715
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([2],vii,[1],3-92,[2],47,[1]p); 12°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Gaulacher, Margaret d. 1715 ; Crime Massachusetts Boston ; Executions and executioners Massachusetts Boston ; Infanticide Massachusetts Boston
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
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  • Footnote: "The divine compassions declar'd and magnified .. upon the sorrowful occasion of a miserable woman present, under sentence of death .. by Benjamin Colman .. 1715."--47, [1] p. at end, with separate title page (on leaf I6)
    Caption titles: The worst of plagues; what it is, and how to shun it. [and] The grand concern, of suffering and of dying people
    English Short Title Catalog, W2555
    Evans, 1764
    Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, 367
    Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford)