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Behaviour of Lovat, 28 pp (14  July  1793) Author unknownA candid and impartial account of the behaviour of Simon Lord Lovat, from the time his death-warrant was deliver'd, to the day of his execution. Together with a faithful narrative of the particular incidents which happen'd that day in the Tower, in the sheriff's apartment, and on the scaffold. Interspers'd with some of his Lordship's remarkable sayings, a letter which he wrote to his son, and the copy of a paper which he delivered to the sheriff. By a gentleman who attended his Lordship in his last moments. 1747

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