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The Trial of Mr. William Stone, (who was found not guilty,) at the bar of the King's Bench, Westminster, for high treason
Date: 1796- E-books
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The First part of the Jenne-ren . Being choice collection of the most favoutie opera songs and all other valuable ones.
Date: 1750- E-books
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The end of time, and beginning of eternity . A sermon, &c. By R. Russel, of Wadburst in Sussex.
Russel, RobertDate: 1740- E-books
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The new cheats of London exposed; or, The frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes . Being a warning-piece against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, deceptions, which are daily practised in London,-by bawds, beggars, bullies, children strippers, duffers, fortune tellers, footpads, gossips, gamblers, hangers-on, highwaymen, house-breakers, jilts, intelligencers, Jew defaulters, informers, kidnappers, mock auctioneers, money droppers, pimps, pretended friends, pettyfoggers, procurers, procuresses, pickpockets, quacks, ring droppers, receivers of stolen goods, spungers, sharpers, swindlers, smugglers, shop-lifters, street robbers, trappers, way-layers, waggon-hunters, whores, &c. &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admontions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided; the whole laid down in a plain, and easy manner, to enable innocent country people to be completely on their guard, and avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by robbery and deceiving the young and credulous of both sexes. Written from experience and observation, by Richard King, Esq. Embellished with an emblematical frontispiece. Peruse these, sheets, and you will find true pictures of the vicious kind; of cheats who stroll from street to street, and make a prey of all they meet.
King, RichardDate: 1778- E-books
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The Lives, and extraordinary adventures of Burton Wood and Will. Harling, who were executed upon Kennington-Common, on Monday, August 21. Also, the copies of two letters written by Wood and Harling; the first was sent by Wood to Richard Carpenter Smith, Esq. of the Borough; that of Harling was-sent to a friend on the morning of his execution, now first made public.
Date: 1797