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No jest like a true jest; Being compendious record of the merry life and mad exploits of Capt. James Hind, the great robber of England . Together with the close of all at Worcester, where he was hanged, drawn, and quartered, for high treason against the common wealth, on Sept. 24. 1652.
Date: 1740
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A genuine account of the behaviour , Confession, and Dying-Words of William Hawke and William Jones, Who were Executed at Tyburn on the 1st of July, 1774. By the Rev. John Villette, Ordinary of Newgate.
Villette, John d. 1799.Date: 1774
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The life of James Aitken, commonly called John the Painter, an incendiary , who was tried at the castle of Winchester, on Thursday the 7th day of March, 1777, and convicted of setting fire to His Majesty's dock-yard, at Portsmouth Exhibiting a detail of Facts of the utmost Importance to Great Britain. The Whole faithfully taken down from the convict's own mouth, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, preceding his Execution. Published by Authority.
Aitken, James 1752-1777.Date: 1777
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The life of James Aitken , commonly called John the Painter, an incendiary, who was tried at the Castle of Winchester, on Thursday the 7th day of March, 1777, and convicted of setting fire to His Majesty's dock-yard, at Portsmouth, Exhibiting a detail of Facts of the utmost Importance to Great Britain. The whole faithfully taken down from the convict's own mouth, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, preceding his Execution.
Aitken, James 1752-1777.Date: 1777
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A true copy of the paper, delivered the night before her execution, by Sarah Malcom, to the Rev. Mr. Piddington, Lecturer of St. Bartholomew the Great, March 6th, 1732-3
Malcolm, Sarah ca. 1710-1733.Date: 1732