Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 366 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

Anon. 1821. A Particular Account of a Most Entertaining Sale of a Wife, Who Was Sold to a Brisk Young Gentleman at Smithfield, on the 20th of Last Month, for L9. 13s. A particular account of the trial and execution of Ann Barber, who was executed at York, on Monday the 18th August, 1821, convicted of the horrid murder of James Barber, her own husband, by poisoning him with white arsenic. Also, a particular account of an entertaining, merry and curious sale of a wife, who was sold to a brisk young gentleman at Smithfield, on the 20th of last month, for £9. 13s.

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