PAPERS OF SUSANNA WADE

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This item depicts various scenes of the story of Mary Blandy of Henley-on-Thames 'taking her trial for most cruelly poisning her father'. Mary Blandy was hanged for her crime.

For further details of the case see:

The Tryal of Mary Blandy for the Murder of her Father at the Assizes Held at Oxford (1752)

and A Genuine Account of Mary Blandy.

This document was donated by the Oxfordshire County Council Museums Resource Centre as accession number 5375. Catalogued by Ruth Imeson in April 2005.

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Found at:Museums Resource Centre, Standlake

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