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A FULL AND TRUE
ACCOUNT
OF THE
SOLEMN PROCESSION TO THE GALLOWS, AT THE EXECUTION OF WILLIAM WOOD, ESQUIRE AND HARDWAREMAN.
WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1724.
SOME time ago, upon a report spread that William Wood, hardwareman, was concealed in his brother-in-law's[1] house here in Dublin, a great number of people of different conditions, and of both sexes, crowded about the door, determinately bent to take revenge upon him as a coiner and a counterfeiter. Among the rest, a certain curious person standing in a corner observed, that they all discovered their resentments in the proper terms and expressions of their several trades and callings; whereof he wrote down as many as he could remember; and was pleased to communicate them to me, with leave to publish them, for the use of those who at any time hereafter may be at a loss for proper words, wherein to ex-
- ↑ One Molyneux an ironmonger.
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