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Morrison, Ellison, Burkitt, Millward and Muspratt were condemned to death, the two first being recommended to mercy.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards
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Muspratt also was pardoned, but the three others were hanged on board the _Brunswick_ in Portsmouth Harbour on October 29th,
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards
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The man who lays a hand upon a woman, save in the way of kindness, is justly disliked by Society; so the woman Muspratt, culpable as she was, was safe from me.
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The man who lays a hand upon a woman, save in the way of kindness, is justly disliked by society; so the woman Muspratt, culpable as she was, was safe from me.
Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm Armand [Illustrator] Both 1928
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With Muspratt went a sergeant of the Forty-sixth and a bugler.
Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Captain Muspratt at Albany, and remembered him well on the march up the Hudson to Lake George.
Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Now as yet the cannonade had not slackened, and it chanced that as the General gave Muspratt his instructions, an artillery sergeant in command of a battery of mortars on the left, which had been advanced within two hundred yards of the walls, elevated one of his pieces and lobbed a bomb clean over the summit of the flagstaff tower.
Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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In the gateway Captain Muspratt called promptly to his bugler.
Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The British officers -- one of them was the General himself, the other his messenger, Captain Muspratt -- bared their heads.
Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The General, occupied for the moment in giving Captain Muspratt his instructions, had not witnessed the shot.
Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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