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The Prisoner's Defence

• Evidence for the Defence.
  1. Ann James
  2. Elizabeth Binfield (recalled)
  3. Mary Banks
  4. Edward Herne
  5. Thomas Cawley
  6. Thomas Staverton
  7. Mary Davis
  8. Robert Stoke

Motion by Mr. Ford to call another witness refused

Hon. Mr. Bathurst's Closing Speech for the Prosecution

Statement by the Prisoner

Mr. Baron Legge's Charge to the Jury

The Verdict

The Sentence

APPENDICES

I.—Proceedings before the Coroner relative to the Death of Mr. Francis Blandy

II.—Copies of Original Letters in the British Museum and Public Record Office, relating to the Case of Mary Blandy

III.—A Letter from a Clergyman to Miss Mary Blandy, now a prisoner in Oxford Castle, with her Answer thereto; as also Miss Blandy's own narrative of the crime for which she is condemned to die

IV.—Miss Mary Blandy's own account of the affair between her and Mr. Cranstoun, from the commencement of their acquaintance in the year 1746 to the death of her father in August, 1751, with all the circumstances leading to that unhappy event

V.—Letter from Miss Blandy to a Clergyman in Henley

VI.—Contemporary Advertisement of a Love Philtre

VII.—Contemporary Account of the Execution of Mary Blandy

VIII.—Letter from the War Office to the Paymaster-General, striking Cranstoun's name off the Half-Pay List

IX.—The Confessions of Cranstoun—

• 1. Cranstoun's own version of the facts
• 2. Captain Cranstoun's account of the Poisoning of the late Mr. Francis Blandy

X.—Extract from a Letter from Dunkirk anent the death of Cranstoun

XI.—Letter from John Biddell, the Scots genealogist, to James Maidment, regarding the descendants of Cranstoun

XII.—Bibliography of the Blandy Case

XIII.—Description of the satirical print "The Scotch Triumvirate"

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS