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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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A narrative of all the robberies, escapes, &c. of John Sheppard giving an exact description of the manner of his wonderful escape from the castle in Newgate, and of the Methods he took afterward for his Security. Written by himself during his Confinement in the Middle Stone-Room, after his being retaken in Drury-Lane. To which is Prefix'd, A true Representation of his Escape from the Condemn'd Hold, curiously engraven on a Copper Plate. The whole Publish'd at the particular Request of the Prisoner.
Date: 1724- E-books
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Villainy unmask'd cont i ning [sic] I. An ample discovery of the many surprizing tricks, ... now practised by rogues ... II. A detection of the mischiefs arising from the vast numbers of pettifoggers, bailiffs, ... by whose oppression multitudes of our able artists, usefu manufacturers, &c. croud the various goals [sic] ... III. Heads of a law little differing from those ... of the city of London, for putting an effectual stop to the enormous crimes and abuses committed by the above wretches. ... IV. A scheme, proposing work-houses and hospitals, ... By a lover of his country.
Lover of his countryDate: 1752- E-books
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A narrative of all the robberies, escapes, &c. of John Sheppard giving an exact description of the manner of his wonderful escape from the Castle in Newgate, and of the Methods he took afterward for his Security. Written by himself.
Date: 1724- E-books
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A narrative of all the robberies, escapes, &c. of John Sheppard giving an exact description of the manner of his wonderful escape from the castle in Newgate, and of the Methods he took afterward for his Security. Written by himself during his Confinement in the Middle Stone-Room, after his being retaken in Drury-Lane. To which is added, a true representation of his escape from the condemn'd hold, curiously engraven on a Copper Plate. The whole Publish'd at the particular Request of the Prisoner.
Date: 1724