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A genuine account of the lives, characters, behaviours, confessions, and dying words, of the Six Malefactors, That were executed at Kennington-Common, on Friday the Fourteenth of September, 1739. Containing, The particular and full Confession of John Hanna, in Relation to Captain Longdon, with a Discovery of the Person who persuaded him into that villainous Conspiracy against his innocent Master; and an Account of various Robberies by him committed after his Trial for Perjury. Also, The Copies of several original Letters and Papers delivered by the other Five Malefactors at the Place of Execution. The Whole communicated to the Printer of this Paper, By the Reverend Mr. Wilson, M. A. Curate of St. George the Martyr, Southwark. Who attended them while under Sentence of Death.
Wilson, W., Curate of St. George the Martyr.Date: 1739- Books
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God's revenge against murder and adultery: remarkably displayed in thirty tragical histories. Shewing the justice and power of divine providence in punishing such atrocious offences. The Whole Extremely interesting, entertaining, and instructive; very necessary to deter and restrain us from giving a Loose to our Passions and irregular Appetites. Each history introduced with a copper plate, representing the most striking Passages. A new edition, revised and corrected, with a recommendatory preface, by the Rev. Philip Batteson, B.A.
Batteson, Philip, 1745 or 1746-1793.Date: M.DCC.LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Memoire pour Catherine de Henny, native de la ville de Berne, en Suisse, demeurant in Chorch-Street, [sic], St. Ann's, Soho, ches Mr. Coop: contre le Comte
Henny, Catherine de.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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Gaol calendar, summer assizes, at Maidstone, Monday the 2d. of August, 1784. Sir Charles Booth, knt. Sheriff.
Kent (England)Date: [1784]- Books
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[Retsah] a cry against a crying sinne: or, A just complaint to the magistrates, against them who have broken the statute laws of God, by killing of men meerly for theft : Manifested in a petition long since presented to the Common Councel of the City of London, on the behalfe of transgressours. Together with certaine proposals, presented by Col. Pride to the Right Honourable the generall Counsell for the Army, and the Committee appointed by the Parliament of England, to consider of the inconveniences, mischiefes, chargeablenesse, and irregularities in their law.
Chidley, SamuelDate: 1652