This two-part, eight-volume, reset edition draws together a range of sources from the early modern era through to the industrial age, to show the changes and continuities in responses to the social, political, legal and spiritual problems that self-murder posed.
Volume 2 16741699 Short Texts Anthony Wildgoose, The Yovng-Mans Second
Warning-Peece (1643) Anon., The Troubled-Spirited Mans Departing (1653)
Anon., Sad and Deplorable News f om Fleet-Street (1674) Anon., Sad and
Lamentable News f om Rumford (1674) Anon., The Sad Effects of Cruelty
Detected (1675) Anon., Strange and Lamentable News from Dullidg-Wells (1678)
Anon., The Sad and Dreadful Relation of a Bloody and Cruel Murther (1684)
Anon., An Account of the Most Strange and Barbarous Action (1685) Anon., A
Sad and Dreadful Account of the Self-Murther of Robert Long, Alias Baker
(1685) Anon., Sad and Dreadful News f om Dukes-Place Near Aldgate (1686)
Anon., A Full and True Relation of the Murther of Doctor Urthwait (1689)
Anon., A Sad and Lamentable Account of the Strange and Unhappy Misfortune of
Mr. John Temple (1689) Thomas Philipot, Self-Homicide-Murther (1674)The Earl
of Essexs Suicide Anon., An Account How the Earl Of Essex Killed Himself in
the Tower of London (1683) Embroyan-fancy of anti-Jack Presbyter, A New Poem
on the Dreadful Death of the Earl Of Essex, Who Cut His Own Throat in the
Tower (1683) Anon., A True Narrative of the Bloody Murther of the Earl of
Essex, Upon Himself, Being Now Prisoner in the Tower (1683) Henry Danvers,
Murder Will Out (1689) Robert Ferguson, An Enquiry into, and Detection of the
Barbarous Murther of the Late Earl of Essex (1684) Lawrence Braddon, Essexs
Innocency And Honour Vindicated (1690) Notes on the Death of the Earl of
Essex (1683) John Child, A Second Argument, for a More Full and Firm Union
amongst All Good Protestants (1684) Anon., Sad and Lamentable News f om
Brick-Lane in the Hamlet of Spittle Fields (1684) Thomas Plant and Bemjamin
Dennis (eds), The Mischief of Persecution Exemplified (1688) Charles Gildon,
An Account of the Life and Death of the Author (1695) Willis, The
Occasional Paper [ Richard Willis], In a Letter to a Friend (1697) [ Richard
Willis], Concerning Self-Murder (1698) Nathanael Whaley, Of Murther
Particularly Duelling and Self-Murther (1698) Anon., A Reply to the Hertford
Letter (1699) Editorial Notes
Mark Robson, Paul S Seaver, Kelly McGuire, Jeffrey Merrick, Daryl Lee