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NYEP(D.750.036
10 Dec 1750:31 (290)
Extract of a letter from Cork, Sept. 12. Counsellor Mead's
servant, who was lately condemned for robbing his master,
and ordered for execution yesterday was brought to the
gallows about five o'clock in the evening. guarded by the
sheriff and about twenty men attended by the minister and
clerk, singing psalms with him all the way; where after
staying an hour, he was tied up, but had not hung more than
a minute, when the mob, seeing a man in a white jacket,
running towards them excessively fast, cried out a reprieve,
cut him down, and carried him clear off; but when the fellow
came up, it prov'd to be only Sir John Freke's footman,
running before his lady, who was then coming into Cork in
her coach and six. It is imagined there were at least
20,000 persons present.
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