An rare mid 18th cetury single printed page being 'A Full an...

Hammer

£160

An rare mid 18th cetury single printed page being 'A Full and particular Account of the Lives and behaviour of (the men tried and) Executed at Portsmouth for running away with the Chesterfield Man of War in the West Indies on Friday 14th October 1748.' printed on fine laid paper with five woodblock prints and four crests. Condition: some losses, professionally laid to tissue backing. 47x34cm; Footnote:

Samuel Couchman, first lieutenant of marines, Shot, July 14. John Morgan, second lieutenant of marines, Shot, July 24.
Thomas Knight, carpenter, John Place, carpenter's mate, John Meeks, seaman, William Anderson, seaman, John Reed, quarter-master, Thomas Scott, seaman.-Hanged.
Captain Dudley was tried for "neglect of duty, in keeping a number of his officers on shore, at Cape-Coast Castle, when the ship was seized," and acquitted. Others of the ship's company, also tried for mutiny, were acquitted. On the 26th of June, 1749, James Colvin, late boatswain's mate on board the Richmond man of war, was hanged at Portsmouth, for mutiny.