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Life and farewell address of Peter Aug. Heaman, who was executed at Leith, on the 9th of January last, for the crimes of piracy and murder

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Life and farewell address of Peter Aug. Heaman, who was executed at Leith, on the 9th of January last, for the crimes of piracy and murder
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Description	Written by himself in prison. With preliminary remarks, containing an account of him after his condemnation till his death
Shelfmark	ABS.1.83.200(1)
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1822 [Date printed] 1821 [Date/event in text]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Autobiographies (literary works) Murderers Prisoners
Person / organisation:	Heaman, Peter, -1822 [Author] Waugh and Innes [Bookseller] Balfour and Clarke [Printer]
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