A full and true relation of a most barbarous and cruel robbery and murder committed by six men and one woman neer Wakefield in York-shire : with a full account how they broke into the house of one Anthony Wilson, binding and gagging the whole family, using the said Anthony Wilson and his wife after a most cruel manner : and after they had taken away six pounds and odde money, with what other goods they thought fit, the woman killed the said Anthony Wilson with a knife which she had in her bosome.

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