Brigands and robbers - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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The history of the lives of the most noted highway-men , foot-pads, house-breakers, shop-lifts, and cheats, of both sexes, in and about London, and other Places of Great-Britain, for above fifty years last past. Wherein their most secret and barbarous Murders, unparallell'd Robberies, notorious Thefts, and unheard of Cheats, are expos'd to the Publick. By Capt. Alexander Smith.
Smith, Alexander, fl. 1714-1726.Date: MDCCXIV. [1714]- E-books
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An account of John Weskett , late porter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Harrington. In which is laid down an effectual method for preventing theft and robbery.
Date: [1764]- E-books
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The history of the lives of the most noted highway-men , foot-pads, house-breakers, shop-lifts and cheats, of both sexes, ... for above fifty years last past. ... By Capt. Alexander Smith. In two volumes.
Smith, Alexander, fl. 1714-1726.Date: 1714- E-books
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The genuine life of William Hawke , the famous highwayman, executed at Tyburn, on Friday, July 1, 1774: containing An Account of all the remarkable Robberies he committed before and since his Return from Transportation, with an Appendix, Giving an Account of his Behaviour on the Day of Execution.
Date: 1774- E-books
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R. Jehudæ F. Salomonis vulgo dicti Charizi eloquentiæ Hebraicæ principis primus et tricesimus consessus De latrone transfigurato Nuper e codice manuscripto latine conversus. Accedunt versiculi ex quinquagesimo ejusdem consessu excerpti.
Yehuda AlhariziDate: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]