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The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years. With their several characters from the best historians, as Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c. And A Table shewing how the respective Sentences were Executed, and which of them were Mitigated, or Pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the state-tryals.
Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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The new cheats of London exposed; or, The frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a guard against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, and deceptions, which are daily practised in London, by bawds, bullies, duffers, fortune-tellers, gamblers, gossips, hangers-on, jilts, intelligencers, Jew-defaulters, insolvents, kidnappers, lottery-office-keepers, mock-auctioneers, money-droppers, ring-droppers, pimps, pretended friends, procurers, procuresses, quacks, receivers of stolen goods, setters, spungers, sharpers, swindlers, smugglers, shop-listers, street-robbers, trappers, way-layers, waggon-hunters, whores, &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admonitions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided, by the instructions herein contained. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a manner, as to enable the most innocent country people to be completely on their guard how to avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by villany and fraud. Written from experience and observation by Thomas Brown, author of the New London spy, also published by C. Cooke. Embellished with emblematical copper-plates.
King, Richard, Esq.Date: [1790?]- Books
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An accurate statement, of the trial of James Price and Thomas Brown, before the Hon. Francis Burton, Esq. at the assizes holden for the county palatine of Chester, the 6th day of April, 1796. Charged on Oath, with a strong Suspicion of having on Tuesday the 19th of January last past, between the Hours of Eight and Nine in the Afternoon of the same Day, on the King's Highway, in the Parish of Thorton-in-The-Moors, in the County of Chester, feloniously assaulted Peter Yoxall, who was carrying on Horseback, his Majesty's Mail, from Warrington in the County of Lancaster, to the City of Chester, and taking from his Person; the said Mail bag, with the letters and other articles contained therein. Entered at Stationers-Hall.
Price, James, active 1796.Date: 1796- Books
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A Select and impartial account of the lives, behaviour, and dying words, of the most remarkable convicts, from the year 1700, down to the present time. Containing amongst many others the following, viz. Herdman Strodman, for the barbarous murder of Peter Wolter, his fellow apprentice. Thomas Cook, the Gloucester butcher, for the murder of Mr. John Cooper, a constable in May fair. John Morgridge, for the murder of Lieut. Cope, at the Tower. Mr. Gregg, clerk to the Late Secretary Harley, Earl of Oxford, for holding correspondence with Her Majesty's enemies. Richard Town, tallow-chandler, the only person who was executed on the Bankrupt Act. Col. Oxburgh, Richard Gascoigne, Esq; Justice Hall, and Parson Paul, for high-treason. Marquiss de Paleotti, for stabbing his servant. Lieutenant Bird, for the murder of Sam. Loxton, at a Bagnio. Matthias Brinsden, for the murder of his wife. Capt. John Massey, for piracy. Capt. John Stanley, for the murder of Mrs. Maycock. Jonathan Wild, the thief-taker for several felonies.
Date: M,DCC,LX. [1760]- Books
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The new cheats of London exposed; the frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a guard against the iniquitious [sic] practices of that metropolis. ...
King, Richard, Esq.Date: [1795?]