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The trial of Mervyn Touchet, earl of Castlehaven; with two letters written by him after condemnation to his sisters and his son, an account of his execution, and his speech on the scaffold, 14 May 1631

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MS. Rawl. A. 346, fol. 124
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At the end are 24 lines, beginning, "Rome's worst Philenis and Pasiphae's dust / Are now chast fictions, and noe longer lust;" and a six-line epitaph on the earl, written by himself.

Dates

  • Creation: 14 May 1631

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1 item

Language of Materials

  • English

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MS. Rawl. A. 346, fol. 124

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