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Bosavern Penlez (1726–1749) was a
British wig
maker who was
convicted and
executed for
rioting along with co-defendant John Wilson. He was
sentenced to...
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General History of the
Stage John
Cleland The Case of the
Unfortunate Bosavern Penlez Memoirs of a
Woman of Pleasure, or, **** Hill (unexpurgated, suppressed...
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involved in the high-profile
attempt to
secure the body of
condemned rioter Bosavern Penlez for
dissection in 1749.
Aside from the over-enthusiastic dissection...
- Bojewyan, Pendeen, Trewellard, Carnyorth, Botallack, Kenidjack, St Just,
Bosavern and Kelynack. The
bridge near St Just,
dated to the
early 19th century...
- shoulder.
Willes was
known as a
hanging judge – he had
refused mercy for
Bosavern Penlez in the
cause célèbre of 1749, but was
equally famed as a rake, and...
