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Brigands and robbers - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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An account of John Weskett, late porter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Harrington. In which is laid down an effectual method for preventing theft and robbery.
Date: [1764]- Books
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A Brief historical account of the lives of the six notorious street-robbers, executed at Kingston, Viz. William Blewet, Edward Bunworth, Emanuel Dickenson, Thomas Berry, John Higges, and John Legee. With a particular relation of their early introduction into the desperate trade of street-robbing, and especially of murther, and of several robberies which they, and others of their gang, have been concern'd in.
Date: 1726- Books
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An account of John Westcote, late porter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Harrington. In which is laid down an effectual method for preventing theft and robbery.
Date: [1764?]- 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, active 1714-1726.Date: 1714- Books
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The genuine life of William Hawke, the famous highwayman, executed at Tyburn, on Friday, July 1, 1774: containing An Account of all the remarkable Robberies he committed before and since his Return from Transportation, with an Appendix, Giving an Account of his Behaviour on the Day of Execution.
Date: 1774