Some Distinguished Victims of the ScaffoldBleackley, Horace
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Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold
Bleackley, Horace
Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Trials -- Great Britain
This book is reviewed at full length in the _Gentleman’s
Magazine_, December 1792, pt. ii. pp. 1114-16, and in the
_European Magazine_, December 1892, pt. ii. p. 436. The author,
Joseph Budworth, who afterwards adopted his wife’s surname,
Palmer, was a contributor to the former journal. Mary Robinson
is described under the pseudonym ‘Sally of Buttermere’ The
second edition of the _Fortnight’s Ramble_ is reviewed in
_Gentleman’s Magazine_, vol. lxvi. pt. i. p. 132, February 1796.
NOTE II.--_A Revisit to Buttermere._ Letter from a rambler to ‘Mr.
Urban’ dated Buttermere, January 2 (_vide Gentleman’s Magazine_,
January 1800, pp. 18-24).
This account was inserted in the third edition of _A
Fortnight’s Ramble_, published in 1810. Joseph Budworth tells
us that his second visit to Buttermere took place in January
1798.
NOTE III.--_The Prelude_, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind, by Wm.
Wordsworth. Commenced 1799, finished 1805, published 1850. The
Centenary edition of the works of Wm. Wordsworth. Six vols. Edited by
E. Moxon, 1870.
Book VII., “Residence in London,” contains the famous reference
to Mary of Buttermere and her story. Describing various dramas
he has seen at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, the poet mentions one
written around the story of Mary of Buttermere. _Notes and
Queries_, Tenth Series, i. pp. 7, 70, 96.
NOTE IV.--_The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey._ Edited by
David Masson. A. & C. Black (1889-90); _vide Literary Reminiscences_,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. ii. pp. 138-225.
The description of ‘The Hadfield Affair’ occupies pp. 174-184,
and its numerous errors were the subject of a smart attack by a
correspondent in _Notes and Queries_ (First Series, vol. viii.
p. 26), July 9, 1853.
NOTE V.--_The Tourist’s New Guide._ By William Green. In two volumes.
Kendal (1819), vol. ii. pp. 180-5, 221. _Seventy-eight Studies from
Nature._ By William Green. Longman (1809) p. 7.
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