Life, Trial and Execution of John Tawell, the Quaker

DESCRIPTION: "Within a dark and dismal cell In anguish I do lie, Methinks I hear the solemn knell, Says 'Tawell, you must die.'" He seduced Sarah Hart. He was transported and came home. Then he committed murder; now he must die
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1845 (Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland)
KEYWORDS: transportation crime homicide execution
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 77-79, "Life, Trial and Execution of John Tawell, the Quaker" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Geoffrey C. Ingleton, _True Patriots All: or News from Early Australia as told in A Collection of Broadsides_ ("Garnered and Decorated" by Ingleton), Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1988, p. 235, "(Copy of Verses)" (1 text, files under "Life, Trial and Execution of John Tawell, the Quaker, At Aylesbury for the Murder of Sarah Hart")
Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, pp. 301-302, "The Trial and Execution of John Tawell, the Quaker" (1 text)
Roud #V27138
File: AnFa077

Go to the Ballad Search form
Go to the Ballad Index Song List

Go to the Ballad Index Instructions
Go to the Ballad Index Bibliography or Discography