Criminals - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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The ordinary of Newgate's account of the behaviour, dying words, and confession; Birth, Parentage, and Education, of the several malefactors that were executed at Westminster on Friday last, for the horrid crimes of b-y and c-n. To which is annexed, Mr. P-m's speech immediately before his execution.
Ordinary of NewgateDate: [1747]- E-books
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George, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, to our lovits, macers of our Court of Justiciary, messengers at Arms, our sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially constitute, greeting. Forasmuchas it is humbly meand and complained to us by our Lovit John Wightman of Maulsie, ..
Great Britain. High Court of Justiciary.Date: 1758?]- E-books
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The discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter; who was apprehended for robbing Dr. Hancock, of Salisbury, ... Written wholly by himself.
Poulter, John, 1715-1754?.Date: 1753- E-books
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The Rogues calendar; or, Malefactors bloody register . Containing genuine and circumstantial narratives of the lives and transactions, of the most notorious criminal of both sexes, [Wh]o suffered death, and other punishments, in Great Britain and Ireland, from the year 1700, to the present time; for high treason petty treason, murder, piracy, felony, highway robberies, forgery bigamy, burglaries, riots, &c. And various other crimes and misdemeanors. On a plan entirely new, wherein will be fully displayed the regular progress from virtue to vice, interspersed with striking reflectioins on the conduct of those unhappy wretches who have fallen a sacrifice to the injured laws of their country. The whole tending to guard young minds from the allurements of vice, and the paths that lead to destruction.
Date: 1784- E-books
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The new and complete Newgate calendar or, villany displayed in all its branches. Containing new and authentic accounts of all the lives, adventures, exploits, trials, executions and last dying speeches, confessions, (as well as letters to their relatives never before published) of the most notorious malefactors and others of both sexes and all denominations, who have suffered death and other exemplary punishments for murders, burglaries, felonies, horse-stealing, bigamy, forgeries, highway robberies, footpad robberies, perjuries, piracies, rapes, riots, mobbing, sodomy, starving to death, sheep stealing, swindling, high-treason, petit-treason, sedition, and other misdemeanors. Interspersed with notes, reflections, and remarks, arising from the several subjects, moral, useful, and entertaining. Including the transactions of the most remarkable prisoners, tried for high treason at the Old Bailey, viz. Hardy, Horne Tooke, Thelwall, &c. Likewise the trials of Watt, Downe, Palmer, Fitzgerald, Margarott, &c. &c. at Edinburgh for High Treason, Sedition, Libels, &c. &c. Comprehending also, all the most material passages in the sessions papers for a long series of years; together with the ordinary of Newgate's Account of the capital convicts; and complete narratives of all the most remarkable trials Also a great variety of the most important lives and trials never before published in any former work of the kind. The whole containing the most faithful narratives ever yet published of the various executions, and other exemplary punishments, which have happened in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the year 1700, to the end of the year 1795. Properly arranged from the records of court. By William Jackson, Esq. Of the Inner-Temple, barrister at law; assisted by others. ... Illustrated with upwards of sixty most elegant copper plates.
Jackson, William, fl. 1795.Date: [1795]