"broke" at Southampton. He returns
to London.

1749.

March--Mrs. Blandy and Mary visit Mr. Sergeant Stevens in Doctors'
Commons.

28 September--Mrs. Blandy taken ill after her return home.

30 September--Death of Mrs. Blandy.

1750.

August--Cranstoun returns to Henley. Puts powder in Mr. Blandy's tea.

October--Cranstoun professes to hear nocturnal music, &c.

November--Cranstoun leaves Henley for the last time.

1751.

April--Cranstoun writes from Scotland to Mary that he has seen Mrs.
Morgan and will send powder with pebbles.

June--Powder and pebbles received by Mary, with directions to put
the powder in tea. Mr. Blandy becomes unwell. Gunnell and Emmet
ill after drinking his tea.

18 July--Cranstoun writes to Mary suggesting she should put the
powder in gruel.

4 August--Gunnell makes gruel in pan by Mary's orders.

5 August--Mary seen stirring gruel in pantry. Mr. Blandy taken
seriously ill in the night.

6 August--Mr. Norton, the apothecary, called in. Gruel warmed
for Mr. Blandy's supper.

7 August--Emmet eats what was left the night before, and is taken
ill. Mary orders the remains of the gruel to be warmed. Gunnell
and Binfield notice white sediment in pan and lock it up.

8 August--Gunnell and Binfield take pan to Mrs. Mounteney, who
delivers it to Mr. Norton.

9 August--Mr. Stevens, of Fawley, arrives and hears suspicions.

10 August--Gunnell tells Mr. Blandy of suspicions. Mary burns
papers and packet. Dr. Addington called in.

11 August--Pan and packet given to Dr. Addington. He warns Mary.
Her letter to Cranstoun intercepted.

12 August--Last interview between Mary and her father.

13 August--Mr. Blandy worse. Dr. Lewis called in. Mary confined to
her room.

14 August--Death of Mr. Blandy. Mary attempts to bribe Harmon and
Binfield to effect her escape.

15 August--Flight of Mary. Coroner's inquest. Mary apprehended.

17 August--Mary removed to Oxford Castle.

4 September--Cranstoun escapes to Calais.

1752.

2 March--Grand Jury find a True Bill against Mary Blandy.

3 March--Trial at Oxford Assizes. Prisoner convicted and sentenced
to death.

6 March--Execution of Mary Blandy.

2 December--Death of Cranstoun.

THE TRIAL

AT THE ASSIZES HELD AT OXFORD FOR THE COUNTY OF OXFORD.

TUESDAY, 3RD MARCH, 1752.