Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data
Oliver Heywood. 1883. The Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A., 1630-1702, Vol. 3. Ed. J. Horsfall Turner. Bingley: T. Harrison. Get it:
.A poor man at a little house by Mark Whittaker’s near Ossett in Wakefield Road hanged his own child to death for taking a piece of bread to eat it. Another child said, “Father, you’ll not hang me, I took no bread.” The man is gone to the jail.
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A poor man at a little house by Mark Whittaker’s near Ossit in Wakefield road hanged his own child to death for taking a piece of bread to eat it. Another child said, “Father, you’ll not hang me, I took no bread.” The man is gone to the jail.
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