The most extraordinary trial and conviction of James Ashcroft the elder, David Ashcroft his brother, James Ashcroft the younger and William Holden, for the horrible robbery and murder of Margaret Marsden and Hannah Partington in the open day at Pendleton, Lancaster : with their remarkable behaviour and awful protestations of innocence in court on being found guilty / taken in short hand, verbatim by James Hodgson ; to which is added, authentic and highly interesting lives of the culprits, including copious details of their execution and the whole of their singular speeches on the Scaffold, protesting their innocence to the last moment and dying in the act of singing a hymn ; with a preface on the probable innocence of the sufferers on this most unprecedented case.