Executions and executioners - Early works to 1800
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The last speech, confession, and dying words of James Haddan, who was executed at Ayr, upon Friday, the 5th day of December, 1766. For the crime of house-breaking
Haddan, James, 1741 or 2-1766.Date: 1766]- E-books
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Execution of the King of France now exhibiting at No. 28, Hay-market. La Guillotine; or The beheading machine, from Paris, by which the late King of France suffered. And an exact representation of the execution
Richard TwissDate: 1793]- E-books
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To the people of England. Whoever has been the least conversant, either in facred or prophane history, can be at no loss for instances, wherein private blood, unjustly spilt, has been exacted at the hands of a whole people; and that general calamities have been the consequence of particular injustice. ..
NeptuneDate: 1757]- E-books
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The last speeches, dying words, and confessions of James Chambers and William Collins , who were executed on the Town-Moor, near Newcastle upon Tyne, on Friday the 27th of August, 1784, for robbing Mr Jasper Anderson, on the Highway.
Chambers, James, d. 1784.Date: 1784]- E-books
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A letter to Messrs. Fletcher and Peach, of the City of London on their negotiation with Dr. Dodd; which has unhappily deprived society of a valuable member, and a useful minister of the Gospel.
Samuel JohnsonDate: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]