The life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett, apprentice to an attorney at law, who for a murder which he never committed, was tried, condemned, executed, and hung in chains, in old England; yet lived many years afterwards, and in his travels found the man in the West Indies actually alive; for the supposed murder of whom he had been really executed. Demonstratively proving, that condemnations upon circumstantial evidence are injurious to innocence, incompatible with justice, and therefore ought always to be discountenanced, especially in cases of life and death. To which is added, an account of John Matthieson, an ingenious Scotsman, lately executed in London, for forging the notes of the Bank of England.

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  • The life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett, apprentice to an attorney at law, who for a murder which he never committed, was tried, condemned, executed, and hung in chains, in old England; yet lived many years afterwards, and in his travels found the man in the West Indies actually alive; for the supposed murder of whom he had been really executed. Demonstratively proving, that condemnations upon circumstantial evidence are injurious to innocence, incompatible with justice, and therefore ought always to be discountenanced, especially in cases of life and death. To which is added, an account of John Matthieson, an ingenious Scotsman, lately executed in London, for forging the notes of the Bank of England.
  • Life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett
  • Adventures of Ambrose Gwinett.
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Imprint
Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]
Publication year
1784-1784
ESTC No.
W19272
Grub Street ID
328926
Description
32p. ; 8⁰
Note
Running title: The adventures of Ambrose Gwinnet.

Attributed to Isaac Bickerstaff in the Dictionary of national biography.

"A narrative of the extraordinary adventures of four Russian sailors .."--p. [23]-32. By Pierre Louis Le Roy.

Bookseller's advertisements, p. 16 and 32.
Uncontrolled note
Signatures: [A]? B-D?