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Arson.- Clark (Margret) Warning for Servants: and a Caution to Protestants. Or, the Case of Margret Clark, lately Executed for Firing her Masters House in Southwark..., only edition, title with double-rule border, one or two small stains, modern green straight-grain morocco, spine titled in gilt, [Wing W922B], small 4to, Tho. Parkhurst..., 1680.

⁂ Margaret (or Margret) Clark, born at Croydon in Surrey of "honest though mean parentage" was a servant to a Mr. Delaney, "a worthy substantial person in Southwark", who also owned "a country-house at Lee in Kent". While Delaney and his family were at their country house, the Southwark property was set on fire by Margaret as the result of being offered "a great sum of money". The maid was tried and convicted but with suspicions that the "Papists" were behind it all.

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Arson.- Clark (Margret) Warning for Servants: and a Caution to Protestants. Or, the Case of Margret Clark, lately Executed for Firing her Masters House in Southwark..., only edition, title with double-rule border, one or two small stains, modern green straight-grain morocco, spine titled in gilt, [Wing W922B], small 4to, Tho. Parkhurst..., 1680.

⁂ Margaret (or Margret) Clark, born at Croydon in Surrey of "honest though mean parentage" was a servant to a Mr. Delaney, "a worthy substantial person in Southwark", who also owned "a country-house at Lee in Kent". While Delaney and his family were at their country house, the Southwark property was set on fire by Margaret as the result of being offered "a great sum of money". The maid was tried and convicted but with suspicions that the "Papists" were behind it all.

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