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  A Full and the truest narrative of the most horrid, barbarous and unparalled murder, committed on the person of John Knight, apprentice to Mr. Arthur Worth, silk-man in milk-street, London. Which ... was committed by the desperate and bloody hand of Nathaniel Butler ... on Thursday morning August 6. 1657. Together with the manner of his being apprehended and examined; and the confession from the mouth of the said Butler ... an account of the tryall, condemnation and sentence pronounced against him, which was executed upon him, on Monday August 31. 1657. And his last speech upon the ladder immediately before his death, which he desired might be printed after his death; and to that end gave it at large in writing from off the ladder, to Mr. Yearwood chaplain to the right honourable Sir Robert Titchbourn lord mayor of London ...
  Date of publication:
  1657
  

  Author(s):

  Butler, Nathaniel, d. 1657.
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  Imprint date from Thomason. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Septem. 4th". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  The penitent murderer. Being an exact narrative of the life and death of Nathaniel Butler; who (through grace) became a convert, after he had most cruelly murdered John Knight. With the several conferences held with the said Butler in Newgate, by the Right Honorable the Lord Maior, and several eminent ministers, and others. As also his confession, speech, prayer, and the sermon preached after his execution; with several useful admonitions, and excellent discourses. / Collected by Randolph Yearwood, chaplain to the Right Honorable, the Lord Major of the city of London.
  Date of publication:
  1657
  

  Author(s):

  Yearwood, Randolph, d. 1689.
  Description:
  Includes letters of Nathaniel Butler, and discourse by several ministers concerning the death of Butler. Annotation on Thomason copy: "8ber [i.e. October] 14.". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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