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The distressed mother: or, sorrowful wife in tears: : being a full and true account of a most horrid, barbarous and bloody murther, committed at Chatham, in the county of Kent, on Tuesday the 16th of this instant September, by one Mrs. Katherine Fox, a Gentlewoman, on the body of her own husband, and two children, by cutting their throats form ear to ear; with the manner of her apprehending and taking, examination and confession before the worshipful Justice Bourchier, and commitment to Maidstone goal for the same.

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Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for J. Beuvet near Billingsgate, [1690?]
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Murder > England > Early works to 1800. Filicide > England > Early works to 1800.
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