The life of James Aitken, commonly called John the Painter, an incendiary, who was tried at the Castle of Winchester, on Thursday the 7th day of March, 1777, and convicted of setting fire to His Majesty's dock-yard, at Portsmouth, exhibiting a detail of facts of the utmost importance to Great Britain

James Aitken

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The life of James Aitken, commonly called John the Painter, an incendiary, who was tried at the Castle of Winchester, on Thursday the 7th day of March, 1777, and convicted of setting fire to His Majesty's dock-yard, at Portsmouth, exhibiting a detail of facts of the utmost importance to Great Britain

1777
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