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The annals of Newgate; or, Malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors ... Calculated to expose the deformity of vice, the infamy and punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the paths of virtue ... / By the Rev. Mr. Villette.
Villette, John.Date: 1776- Ephemera
A copy of verses : written upon the unfortunate Eliza Anthony, suspected of having been murdered.
Date: [1823?]- Books
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These are the times that try mens souls! A letter addressed to John Frost, a prisoner in Newgate. By Yorke.
Yorke, Henry Redhead, 1772-1813.Date: [1793]- Books
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The Newgate calendar; comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England since the commencement of the eighteenth century; with occasional anecdotes and observations, speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers / By Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin.
Knapp, Andrew.Date: 1824-- Books
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The annals of Newgate; or, malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors, who have suffered an ignominious Death for their Offences, viz. for Parricide, Murder, Treason, Robbery, Burglary, Piracy, Coining, Forgery, and Rapes: From the Commitment of the celebrated John Sheppard, to the Acquittal of the equally celebrated Margaret Caroline Rudd. Including a Period of fifty Years and upwards, both in Town and Country. Calculated To expose the Desormity of Vice, the Infamy and Punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the Paths of Virtue; and intended as a Beacon to warn the rising Generation against the Temptations, the Allurements, and the Dangers of bad Company. The former Part extracted from Records; and the Histories and Transactions of the modern Convicts, communicated by the unhappy Sufferers themselves, since the Author has been appointed to his present Office. By the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others.
Villette, John, -1799.Date: 1776- Books
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Dr. Dodd's exhortation to his fellow prisoners delivered in the chapel of Newgate, June 6, 1777.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.Date: 1777?]- Books
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The rights of man. For the use and benefit of all mankind. By Thomas Paine, member of the French Convention; late a prisoner in the Luxembourg at Paris; secretary to Congress during the American war and author of Common sense, &c. &c.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: 1795- Books
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Poems of love and gallantry. Written in the Marshalsea and Newgate, by several of the Prisoners taken at Preston.
Date: 1716- Ephemera
Particulars of the EXECUTION, &c. of Carnelous Sullivan, Dennis Fitzgerald, and Charles Oakden this morning before the debtors door, Newgate.
Date: [1809]- Books
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The ordinary of Newgate, his account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words, of the malefactors, who were executed at Tyburn, on Wednesday the 18th of March, 1740. Being the First Execution in the mayoralty of the Rt. Hon. Humphry Parsons Esq; Number I.
Guthrie, James, active 1727-1746.Date: M,DCC,XL. [1740]- Books
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The ordinary of Newgate, his account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words, of the malefactors, who were executed at Tyburn, On Wednesday the 8th of November. Being the Fifth Execution in the mayoralty of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Barnard, Number V. For the said Year.
Guthrie, James, active 1727-1746.Date: M,DCC,XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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The ordinary of Newgate, his account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words, of the malefactors, who were executed at Tyburn, On Wednesday the 13th of February. Being the Second Execution in the mayoralty of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Salter, Knt. Number II. For the said Year.
Guthrie, James, active 1727-1746.Date: M,DCC,XXXIX. [1739]-40- Books
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The ordinary of Newgate, his account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words, of the malefactors who were executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 17th of February, 1743. Being the First Execution in the mayoralty of the Right Honble. Robert Westley, Esquire, Lord-Mayor of the City of London.
Guthrie, James, active 1727-1746.Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]- Books
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The ordinary of Newgate, his account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words, of the malefactors who were executed at Tyburn, on Monday the 24th of December, 1744. Being the First Execution in the mayoralty of the Right Honourable Henry Marshal, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London. Number I. For the said Year.
Guthrie, James, active 1727-1746.Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]-45- Books
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The ordinary of Newgate, his account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words of the malefactors who were executed at Tyburn, On Monday the 22d of November, 1742. Being the First Execution in the mayoralty of the Right Honble. Robert Willimot, Esquire. Lord-Mayor of the City of London. Number I. For the said Year.
Guthrie, James, active 1727-1746.Date: M,DCC,XLII. [1742]-43- Books
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A letter from His Grace the Duke of Richmond to Lieutenant Colonel Sharman. Chairman to the Committee of Correspondence appointed by the delegates of forty-five corps of volunteers. Assembled at Lisburn in Ireland. With notes by a member of the Society for Constitutional Information.
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806.Date: 1795- Books
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The behaviour, confession, and dying words of Thomas Homan, Who was executed On Thursday the 18th of this Instant November, At the End of Fetter-Lane in Holborn, For the barbarous murder of Mrs. Dix; together With a particular account of the said murder, after what Manner he committed it, and likewise a very remarkable Account of his Life, from his Birth to his fatal Exit: To which are some Letters sent to him while under Condemnation by some Methodists. Being the First execution in the Mayoralty of the Right Honourable George Heathcote, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London.
Guthrie, James, active 1727-1746.Date: [1742]- Books
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The debtor and creditor's assistant; or, a key to the King's bench and Fleet prisons; calculated for the information and benefit of the injured creditor, as well as the unfortunate debtor: Including Newgate, Ludgate, and the Three Compters. To which are Added, Relfections on perpetual Imprisonment for Debt; and Outlines of a Bill for abolishing the same, &c. &c.
Date: [1793]- Books
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A Sketch of the life and character of Mr. Ratcliffe. Containing the part he acted in the rebellion, in the year 1715. His sentence and escape out of Newgate; his adventures for these 30 years past; his behaviour in the tower since he was last made prisoner; and the execution awarded against him on his former sentence.
Date: 1746- Books
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A list of the names of the prisoners; English, Scotch, and Irish taken on board the Salisbury, by Her Majesties ship the Leopard, who were this afternoon being the 21st of this instant April, brought to Newgate, ...
Date: 1708- Books
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A sermon preach'd before the prisoners under sentence of death, in Newgate, Bristol, On Tuesday the 24th of September, And at their earnest Desire, the Friday following, being the Day of their Execution. By the Rev. James Buller, M. A.
Buller, James, 1704 or 1705-Date: 1754- Books
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A Narrative of all the robberies, escapes, &c. of John Sheppard: Giving an exact description of the manner of his wonderful escape from the Castle in Newgate, and of the methods he took afterward for his security. Written during his confinement in the Middle Stone-Room, after his being retaken in Drury-Lane. The whole publish'd at the particular request of the prisoner.
Date: 1724- Books
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A plain and succinct narrative of the late riots and disturbances in the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark. Containing, particulars of the burning of Newgate, the King's Bench, the Fleet, and New Bridewell Prisons. Also, the Houses of Lord Mansfield, Sir John Fielding, Messrs. Langdale, Rainsforth, Cox, Hyde, &c. Romish Chapels, Schools, &c. with an account of the commitment of Lord George Gordon to the Tower, And Anecdotes Of His Life. To Which IS Prefixed, An Abstract of the Act lately passed in Favour of the Roman Catholics. And an Account of the Bill, as moved for in Parliament by Sir George Savile, with the Observations of Sir George and Mr. Dunning on the Papist penal Laws. By William Vincent, of Gray's Inn.
Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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A plain and succinct narrative of the late riots and disturbances in the cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. Containing, particulars of the burning of Newgate, the King's Bench, the Fleet, and New Bridgewell prisons. Also, the houses of Lord Mansfield, Sir John Fielding, Messrs. Langdale, Rainsforth, Cox, Hyde, &c. Romish Chapels, schools, &c. With an account of the commitment of Lord George Gordon to the tower, and anecdotes of his life. To which is prefixed, an abstract of the act lately passed in favour of the Roman Catholics. And an account of the bill, as moved for in Parliament by Sir George Savile, with the observations of Sir George and Mr. Dunning on the papist penal laws. The second edition, corrected: with an appendix. By William Vincent, of Gray's Inn.
Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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A short history of the life of Major John Bernardi. Written by himself in Newgate, where he has been for near 33 years a prisoner of state, without any Allowance from the Government, and could never be admitted to his Tryal. To which is added by way of appendix, a true copy of the diploma, or Patent of Count of the Empire, granted to the author's grand-father in the year 1629, and a Translation of it into English. As also Copies of the Major's several Commissions, &c.
Bernardi, John, 1657-1736.Date: 1729