The cruel step-mother [electronic resource] : or, the unhappy son. Giving I. An account of 'squire Brown of York, who had one only Son; and how his Lady sell sick, and on her Death Bed begged of him not to marry for the Sake of her Child. 2. How he soon married a rich Widow, who was very cruel to his Son; and how his Uncle dy'd, and left him an Estate of Two Hundred Pounds a Year. 3. How his Step-Mother sent him away for the Sake of his Money, by taking a Ring from his Father and putting it in the Boy's Pocket, for which his Father sent him to Sea, and the Ship was taken by the Spaniards, and he made a Slave of. 4. How the Ghost of his Mother came to this cruel Wretch, and told his Father of the Ring. 5. How afterwards his Father sell into Despair and hanged himself, and his Son came Home again, went to Law with his Mother, got Five Hundred Pounds from her, which broke her Heart, and she dy'd with Grief. Licensed and entered according to Order.