Elizabeth Brownrigg, executed for cruelty and murder. Hanged at Tyburn in 1767 for the torture and murder of her domestic servant Mary Clifford. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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