The leverpool tragedy or a Warning to disobedient Children & covetous parents In Five Parts. 1st. Shewing how one Mr. Robert Fuller a wealthy grasier, liviug in the town of Leverpool in Lancashire, he had 3 fair daughters, & but one son, named J. Fuller, his Fathers darling and a very hopeful youth whom he put out apprentice to a famous Surgeon in the same town & serv'd his master feithfully till his time was out and afterwards served him as a journyman for a year, till getting acquainted with a surgeons mate who perswaded him to go to sea telling him he might come to promotion which so inspired his miud that he went to his Father and told him he would go to sea and beggs his blessing Which his Father refused to give him telling him he would nevar have his blessing nor the blessing of God, if he went against his will, which he stubbornly did regardless of his Fathers Threats and intreaties. 2d How he went a voyage to sea and was in a great storm where the ship was drove on a rock. 3d. How this young man swam to a rock where he was 5 days and how the devil appear'd to him saying if he would be his servant he would bring him from that place but finding who it vvas the young man fell on his knees and bid Defiance to him, saying he trust in God and serve none but him alone 4th. hovv the captain dreams vvhere he vvas and fetch'd him avvay and sail'd to Bengall where he married liv'd to years had six Children and a good Estate. 5th. How be left his Wife and came to Leverpool where be found 8 of his sisters dead, the other married, he made himself known to her, them goes to his parent, & ask'd for Lodging which they let him have, but he not making himself known, they cut his throat for his gold, not knowing he was their son, and the next day finding he was their son his Father cut his throat; his mother stab'd herself, and his sister died raving med (printed, for William Clark in the Strand, 1760)
Date is a guess. Unable to trace a William Clark in the Strand
English Short Title Catalog, T182455
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford)