Catalogue description Wrapper being a presentment of James Hibert of Winchester, grocer to Winchester Quarter Sessions for shooting his wife Elizabeth on 18 December 1651 ("having not God before his eys, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the divell") with powder and hail shot discharged from a fowling piece worth 5s making a wound 2 inches deep, 4 inches wide and 6 inches lorg in "the upper part of her thighs behinde" of which she subsequently died 1652

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Title: Wrapper being a presentment of James Hibert of Winchester, grocer to Winchester Quarter Sessions for shooting his wife Elizabeth on 18 December 1651 ("having not God before his eys, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the divell") with powder and hail shot discharged from a fowling piece worth 5s making a wound 2 inches deep, 4 inches wide and 6 inches lorg in "the upper part of her thighs behinde" of which she subsequently died 1652
Held by: Hampshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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