Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 44: Paston Percy
The case excited great interest, and nume rous accounts of the trial were published, among which were shorthand reports by J. W. B. Gurney, and by Blanchard Ramsey (london, 1806, 8vo). A view and plan of Blight's house appeared in the Lady's Magazine' for 1806, pp. 211 - 16. Fairburn's edition of the trial and an account published in vol. Iv. Of Kirby's 'wonderful and Eccentric Museum' (pp. 43-97) contain portraits of Patch, who is described (gent. May. 1806, p. 375, paged '383 as a man of heavy build, 'very round-shouldered, with a short thick neck and ?orid complexion.'
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