Picture No | 10048016 |
Date | 22 April 1751 |
Description | THE OSBORNES LYNCHED |
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An elderly couple, Ruth Osborne and her husband, of Tring, Hertfordshire, are suspected of witchcraft and lynched by a mob : the ringleader, Colley, a chimneysweep, is executed
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Source | engraving by Valois (perhaps frm the Newgate Calendar) |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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