Crime - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
Works from the collections
17 works
- E-books
- Online
The behaviour, confession, and dying words of Thomas Homan , Who was executed On Thursday the 18th of this Instant November, At the End of Fetter-Lane in Holborn, For the barbarous murder of Mrs. Dix; together With a particular account of the said murder, after what Manner he committed it, and likewise a very remarkable Account of his Life, from his Birth to his fatal Exit: To which are some Letters sent to him while under Condemnation by some Methodists. Being the First execution in the Mayoralty of the Right Honourable George Heathcote, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London.
Guthrie, James, fl. 1727-1746.Date: [1742]- E-books
- Online
The history of the lives of the most noted highway-men , foot-pads, house-breakers, shop-lifts, and cheats, of both sexes, in and about London, and other Places of Great-Britain, for above fifty years last past. Wherein their most secret and barbarous Murders, unparallell'd Robberies, notorious Thefts, and unheard of Cheats, are expos'd to the Publick. By Capt. Alexander Smith.
Smith, Alexander, fl. 1714-1726.Date: MDCCXIV. [1714]- E-books
- Online
The history of the lives of the most noted highway-men , foot-pads, house-breakers, shop-lifts and cheats, of both sexes, ... for above fifty years last past. ... By Capt. Alexander Smith. In two volumes.
Smith, Alexander, fl. 1714-1726.Date: 1714- E-books
- Online
The ordinary of Newgate , his account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words, of the malefactors who were executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 17th of February, 1743. Being the First Execution in the mayoralty of the Right Honble. Robert Westley, Esquire, Lord-Mayor of the City of London.
Guthrie, James, fl. 1727-1746.Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]- E-books
- Online
A compleat narrative of all the prisoners, who were try'd, cast, and condemned, at the Sessions-House, in the Old Bailey, containing the whole remarkable trials, of Brent Coleman, Richard Edwards, John Roberts, and Michael Jacobs, and many other notorious malefactors
Date: 1740?]