Crime - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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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
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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: 1714- E-books
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Observations on Mr. Fielding's enquiry into the causes of the late increase of Robbers, &c. In which not only the present reigning vices among the vulgar are more candidly and impartially considered; but the follies and vices of the politer part of the British nation are freely represented; as also the pernicious consequences of drinking gin more particularly described: By Ben. Sedgly, of Temple-Bar. To which are added, considerations on the nature of government in general; and more particularly of the British constitution: with a vindication of the rights and privileges of the commonalty of England, in opposition to what has been advanced by the author of the enquiry, or to what may be promulgated by any ministerial artifices, against the public cause of truth and liberty: by Timothy Beck, the happy cobler of Portugal Street.
Beck, TimothyDate: 1751- E-books
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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
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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: 1744