From Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal (Bristol, England), Saturday, August 30, 1783:

Monday was executed at Hall-Down, near Exeter, John Grinslade, aged 22, for the murder of the Rev. Mr. Gilbert Yarde; and John Cunningham, aged only 17, for the murder of John Pratt. The former expressed sorrow for his offences, and declared he died in charity with all men: The latter, from whose youth and ignorance no great degree of sensibility could be expected, appeared rather stupified than grieved at his fate. Cunningham professed himself a Papist.

On this day..

• Feast Day of St. Genesius
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• 1945: Seven German POWs
• 1743: James Hunt and Thomas Collins, Pepper-Alley sodomists
• 1792: Barnabé Farmian Durosoy, royalist journalist
• 1944: Durga Malla
• 1916: Benjamin De Fehr, fragging driver
• 897: Pope Stephen VII, Cadaver Synod convener
• 1936: Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, Old Bolsheviks
• 1972: Vassilis Lymberis, the last executed in Greece
• 1876: James Murphy, gibbeted
• 1945: John Birch, Society man