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CG-NL.764.015
1 Jun 1764:13,21 (29)
Salisbury, March 5. On Saturday the 25th ult. was committed
by Charles Cox, Esq: and this day brought to our county
goal, Henry Trimbrill, a farmer of a small estate at Kemble
near Malsbury, on suspicion of felony, in maiming and
castrating his two aprentices, one eight years of age, the
other sixteen. He is a man who assumed divers characters to
support a life of indolence and laziness; sometimes as a
Methodist preacher, or an Anabaptist teacher, but of late he
made a practice of breeding up bastard children for a
stipulated sum. Two of those little unfortunates, both
boys, he had endeavoured to throw in the way of the small-
pox, which not succeeding, his barbarity at length suggested
to him an operation that might qualify them for singers at
the Opera, and by this means turn them to good account,
should they survive.
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