An account of the lives of the most notorious murderers and robbers , Edward Burnworth alias Frazier, William Blewet, Emanuel Dickenson, Thomas Berry alias Teague, John Higgs, and John Legee. Containing, A full Relation of their several Births, Parentage and Education, and their most remarkable Burglaries and Street Robberies, viz. The Lord Chief Justice Eyre's and Counsellor Fazakerly's Houses in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields; Mrs Spinkes's in Southampton-Row; the Assault and Riot at the George Ale-House in Stocks-Market; the Attempt to rob the Earl of Harborough in his Chair; the robbing of Mr. Charlwood an Apothecary in Covent-Garden. Of Burnworth's Letter to the Attorney-General, and Legee's Wedding the Day after Ball's Murder. With many other of their notable Pranks and Exploits, not published in any other Pamphlet, or Dying-Speech Paper whatever. To which is added, their Tryal and Conviction at Kingston Assizes, for the barbarous Murder of Thomas Ball; with their Behaviour both before and after Sentence, and at the Place of Execution, &c.
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An account of the lives of the most notorious murderers and robbers, Edward Burnworth alias Frazier, William Blewet, Emanuel Dickenson, Thomas Berry alias Teague, John Higgs, and John Legee. Containing, A full Relation of their several Births, Parentage and Education, and their most remarkable Burglaries and Street Robberies, viz. The Lord Chief Justice Eyre's and Counsellor Fazakerly's Houses in
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London : printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1726
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The second edition.
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