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Strange & bloody nevvs from Perin in Cornwall: or, A true and faithful relation of a horrible and unhumane murther, committed by father and mother, upon the body of their own son, that had been gone to sea twelve years. : VVith the manner how he presented himself to his parents, as a poor distressed traveller, begging lodging for a night. As also what he related to the old people of his travels; and acquainting them with what jewels he had about him; for which they barbously murther him in his bed. An account how this murther was discovered by his sister, who dwelt in the town; to whom he had discovered himself first, appointing her to come the next day, to make merry with his parents. As also how his father and mother murthered themselves with the same knife; and the daughter dyed suddainly with grief, which was the miserable end of that family.