A true copy of the letter that was sent, by Gerhard Dremelius, the Dutch drawer, to his father in Nienburg : High Germany, some days before he was executed for the murther of Oliver Norris, esq. Wherein is expressed, his full and particular confession of the said murther; how it was perform'd, with several strange discoveries relating to that barbarous action; never before made publick. Being faithfully translated from the Dutch copy, and now published at the request of his friends.

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