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Extortion - Early works to 1800

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    Reflections on extortion , shewing the nature, malignity, and fatal tendency of that sin to individuals and communities, displayed and enforced in a sermon preached at Newbury-port, on Lord's Day Februray 15th, 1778. By Abraham Keteltas, A.M.

    Keteltas, Abraham, 1732-1798. | Date: 1778
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    A full and genuine narrative of the confederacy . Carried on by Cather, Cane, Alexander, Nixon, Paterson, Falconer, and Smith, which last was executed at Tybourn with Mc. Leane, against the Hon. Edward Walpole, Esq. charging him with the detestable Crime of sodomy, in Order to extort a large Sum of Money from him; together with an account of their remarkable trial and conviction, before The Rt. Hon. the Lord Chief Justice Lee, in the Court of King's-Bench, Westminster, July 5th. 1751.

    | Date: [1751]

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