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Rogues and vagabonds - Early works to 1800

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    The merry life and mad exploits of Capt. James Hind, the great robber of England

    | Date: [1765?]
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    An Act to amend and make more effectual the laws relating to rogues, vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly persons , and to houses of correction.

    Great Britain | Date: 1743 [i.e. 1744]]
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    The original English rogue; described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant. In two parts. Comprehending the most eminent cheats practised by both sexes, in all Characters, Occupations, Professions, Trades and Mysterics

    Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?. | Date: 1786
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    The English rogue or the life of Jeremy Sharp. To which is added a narrative of Mary Toft; of an extraordinary delivery of eighteen rabbets, performed by Mr. John Howard, surgeon ... in the year MDCCXXVI.

    Sharp, Jeremy. | Date: 1776
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    Answers for the Most Honourable, the Marquis of Lothian, with concourse of the Fiscal, and the procurator fiscal for himself; to the petition of Patrick Meek, late messenger in Dalkeith

    Lothian, William Kerr, Marquess of, ca. 1690-1767. | Date: 1762]
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