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

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.

Author/creator	Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812
Included Work	Le Roy, Pierre Louis, 1699-1774. Narrative of the extraordinary adventures of four Russian sailors.
Format	Book and Microform
Publication Info	Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]
Description	32 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
Subject(s)	Matthieson, John. Gwinett, Ambrose. Executions and executioners--England --Deal. Executions and executioners--England --London. Murder--England --Deal. Evidence, Circumstantial. Forgery--Great Britain. Shipwrecks.

Uniform title	Life and strange unparallel'd and unheard-of voyages and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett
Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18505 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18505. ^A478749
General note	Running title: The adventures of Ambrose Gwinnet.
General note	Attributed to Isaac Bickerstaff in the Dictionary of national biography.
General note	Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴.
General note	"A narrative of the extraordinary adventures of four Russian sailors ..."--p. [23]-32. By Pierre Louis Le Roy.
General note	Bookseller's advertisements, p. 16 and 32.
References	Evans 18505
References	Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4508
Reproduction note	Joyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18505).
Genre/form	Booksellers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Other title	Adventures of Ambrose Gwinett.

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