THE TRIAL OF THOMAS CLEWES, FOR THE MURDER OF RICHARD HEMMING; TOGETHER WITH THE ARRAIGNMENT OF GEORGE BANKES AND JOHN BARNET AS ACCESSARIES IN THE MURDER OF THE REV GEORGE PARKER, AT ODDINGLEY, WORCESTERSHIRE, IN THE YEAR 1806

Worcester (England): T. Eaton, 1830. 39 pp. Bound in modern marbled paper covered boards. In 1806 a group of six farmers conspired to have murdered the hated Rev. Paker, with whom they quarreled over tithes. They hired Richard Hemming, who dispatched Parker in his garden with a gun shot and then fled. Hemming, now sought by police, threatened to inform on those who hired him. He hid at the farm of Thomas Clewes, one of the conspirators, who became convinced that he should be silenced. His body was buried in Clewes' barn. Twenty-four years passed, during which time all the conspirators prospered except for Clewes, who lost his farm and became a hopeless drunkard. Workmen leveling the barn found Hemming's skeleton. Clewes confessed and implicated the surviving conspirators, who were now pillars of society. Scarce with two later editions for sale online and one later edition in auction records.