Henley, 1750: Mary Blandy is determined to marry her dashing fiance Captain Cranstoun, whatever the price. Even if the price of love is committing murder. This is episode two of the story of Mary Blandy and the patricidal poisoning.
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Resources used:
The tryal of Mary Blandy, spinster; for the murder of her father, Francis Blandy, Gent. At the assizes held at Oxford for the county of Oxford, on Saturday the 29th of February, 1752. https://archive.org/details/b30452843/page/n5/mode/2up.
Miss Mary Blandy's own account of the affair between her and Mr. Cranstoun : from the commencement of their acquaintance in the year 1746 to the death of her father in August 1751, with all the circumstances leading to that unhappy event : to which is added an appendix containing copies of some original letters now in possession of the editor, together with an exact relation of her behaviour whilst under sentence, and a copy of the declaration signed by herself in the presence of two clergymen two days before her execution: https://archive.org/details/missmaryblandys00conggoog/page/n5/mode/2up
Capt. Cranstoun’s account of the poisoning the Late Mr Francis Blandy, of Henley upon Thames, Oxfordshire: https://data.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/view?pubId=ecco-0595400900&pageId=ecco-0595400900-20
Articles on the British Newspaper Archive via a search for ‘Mary Blandy’ between 1750 and 1799: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1750-01-01/1799-12-31?basicsearch=mary%20blandy&somesearch=mary%20blandy&retrievecountrycounts=false#
Music:
Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery
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Relent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4274-relent
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Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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