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The quack-Doctor. A poem. As originally spoke at the Free Grammar School in Manchester. With Notes Critical and Explanatory. Interspersed with proper Observations upon the Design, Conduct, and Execution of it. To which is added, a declamation, spoke at the same time, upon the breaking-up of the school of Christmas, December 13. 1744.
Brooke, Henry, 1694-1757.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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The curiosities of Paris, in nine letters. Containing The Manner of Travelling from Calais to Paris, and the Description of the Towns. &c. on the Road. Description of Paris, Course of the Seine, Bridges, Fountains, &c. Palaces, Paintings, Gardens, Statues, Cabinets of Curiosities, and an Execution on the Wheel. Hospitals, Churches, Relics, and Processions. Squares, Statues, and Inscriptions. Different Orders of the Religious, Orders of Knighthood, Equipages, and Theatres. Amphitheatres, public Libraries, Colleges, Nunneries, &c. and the Ceremony of taking the Veil. Description of St. Cloud, the Royal Mausoleum of St. Dennis, and Regalia of the Crown. Description and Curiosities at Versailles, Trianon, Marli, Waterworks, and Machine, Gardens, Statues, Procession of the Knights of the St. Esprit, &c. &c. Interspersed with useful Observations, and particularly adapted for the Perusal of Chirurgical Students and the Traveller. By A. R.
A. R.Date: [1760?]- Books
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The genuine life, trial, and dying words of Eugene Aram, who was convicted the 3d of August, at York assizes, and executed the 6th, for the murder of Daniel Clarke, at Knaresborough, which Murder he Containing the wonderful Manner by which this Murder was found out; with his Behaviour at the Place of Execution.
Aram, Eugene, 1704-1759.Date: [1759?]- 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 warning to youth. The life and death of Thomas Savage; who was twice executed at Ratcliff, for the murder of his master's maid-servant. Containing what pass'd between him, and those Ministers who were with him, during the Time of his Imprisonment, and at his Execution, viz. Mr. Hugh Baker, Mr. Robert Franklin, Mr. Thomas Vincent, Mr. Thomas Doolittle, and Mr. James Janeway. Illustrated with cuts, never done before. The twenty first edition. To which is added, a sermon preach'd at his funeral. With the vicious life and ignominious death of Hannah Blay, who was executed for being guilty of the said murder.
Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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An authentick letter from Mr. Hughes, a gentleman residing at Lisbon, to his friends in London; containing several curious and interesting particulars in relation to the late conspiracy against the King of Portugal; with a circumstantial and affecting Account of the Behaviour of the principal Conspirators at the Place of Execution, who suffered at Lisbon, &c.
Hughes, Joseph.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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Maxims of equity, collected from, and proved by cases, out of the Books of the best Authority, in the High Court of Chancery. To which is added the case of the Earl of Coventry, Concerning the defective Execution of Powers. Lately adjudged in the High Court of Chancery. By Richard Francis of the Middle Temple, Esq;.
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.Date: 1728- Books
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A sermon preach'd at the parish-church of St. James's, Westminster, on the 21st of May, 1702. at the funeral of Mr. John Cooper, A Constable, who was barbarously Murther'd at May-Fair, in the Execution of his Office, in Suppressing the publick Disorders there. By Josiah Woodward, D. D. Minister of Popler. Published at the Request of the Justices of the Peace, High-Constables, and other Officers and Gentlemen that heard it;
Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.Date: 1702- Books
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The projector's looking-glass: containing, I. The last dying words and confession of Sir Robert Marral, premier Exciseman of Great-Britain, who was burnt in Fleet-Street, near Temple-Bar, on Wednesday the 11th of April, 1733. Taken faithfully from his own Mouth at the Place of Execution. II. The lost bill, drawn by Robert Bold, of Norfolk, and of the Star and Garter in Pall-Mall, for a very large Sum of Money, upon Messieurs Smokers and Company. III. A burlesque poem on the rejecting a certain petition, occasioned by the persuasive eloquence of the said Robert Bold.
Date: [1733?]- Books
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The history and lives of all the most notorious pirates, and their crews, from Capt. Avery, who first settled at Madagascar, to Capt. John Gow, and James Williams, his lieutenant, &c. Who were hang'd at Execution Dock, June 11. 1725, for piracy and murther; and afterwards hang'd in chains between blackwall and deptford. Giving a more full and true account than any yet published, of all their murthers, piracies, maroonings, places of refuge, and ways of living. Adorn'd with twenty beautiful cuts, being the representation of each pirate. To which is prefix'd, an abstract of the laws against piracy.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1725- Books
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A short discourse concerning pestilential contagion, or the plague, with the methods to be used to prevent it, As well by the Diligence of the Civil Magi strate, in the Execution of his Office, as by the Care, and Caution, of every particular Person. In Two Parts. By R. Mead M. D. F. R. S. N. B. The Doctor, who is deservedly esteem'd One of the ablest Physicians in London, undertook the Writing of this Discourse, at the Desire of their Excellencies, the Lords Justices of Great-Britain, signified to him, by Mr. Secretary Craggs, to whom he address'd it, in a Dedication, dated Nov. 29. 1720.
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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Instructions for registring deeds, conveyances, wills and other incumbrances, Affecting Estates in the County of Middlesex; with Precedents of Memorials of every Kind, made use of for the Registring of such Deeds, Conveyances, Wills, &c. and Affidavits of the due Execution of such Deeds, and Memorials executed in the Country; and also, The Form of Discharging Mortgages by Certificate; with an Affidavit of the due Execution thereof, where the Parties live at a Distance from London. By William Rigge, Deputy Register for the County of Middlesex.
Rigge, William.Date: 1778- Books
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The life, trial, and dying words of Mary Edmondson, who was tried and convicted at Kingston assizes, for the murder of her aunt Mrs. Susannah Walker, a Widow Gentlewoman, at Rotherhithe. And executed at Kennington-Common, on Monday, April 2, 1759. With her solemn Declaration of her Innocence at the Place of Execution, and Copies of some Papers she delivered after Condemnation.
Edmondson, Mary, 1733-1759.Date: 1759- Books
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A compleat, genuine, and impartial account of the lives of the two rebel lords who were executed on Tower-Hill, August 18, 1746; with a faithful narrative of their trials, their behaviour while under Sentence, and at the Place of Execution. Also an exact copy of Lord Kilmarnock's moving speech to the House of Peers. With many other authentic Particulars. By R. Moore, of the Tower-Hamlets.
Moore, R., of the Tower-Hamlets.Date: [1746]- Books
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A bill to repeal an act passed in the last session of Parliament, intitled, An Act to enable Charles Bagot, now called Charles Chester, and his Sons, to take the Surname of Chester, and for carrying an Agreement, therein mentioned, into Execution; and for explaining and altering that Agreement, and giving better Directions for the carrying the same, so explained and altered, into Execution.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1759]- Books
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An authentick account of the life of Paul Wells, gent. who was executed at Oxford, Sept.1, 1749, for forgery; Notwithstanding the Interest used to get him a Pardon. With an Account of his Crime, and Behaviour from the Time of his receiving Sentence to his Execution. Also the Reasons which prevented him from receiving his Majesty's Clemency. By a gentleman of C.C.C. Oxon.
Gentleman of C.C.C. Oxon.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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The cruel relation: or, Decoy'd Captain. Being an authentic Account of the Behaviour in every minute Circumstance, of that Unfortunate Young Gentleman. Captain John Lancey, Who was executed at Execution-Dock, Wapping, on Friday, June 7th, 1754; in Pursuance of the Sentence passed upon him, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, at a High Court of Admiralty, on Monday, February 25th, 1754. Licenc'd according to Act of Parliament.
Date: [1754]- Books
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A true copy of the papers wrote by James Maben, who was executed Saturday, August 11, 1744, without the West Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne, for counterfeiting the current Coin of Great Britain, as delivered by him the Night before his Execution, in the Presence of several Spectators, signed by himself, and attested by Fourteen creditable Persons: Containing Some Account of his Life; his Character of John Dodds who was Evidence against him at his Trial; as also the Confession of his Faith, and Dying Principles, as to Matters of Religion.
Maben, James, -1744.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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A genuine narrative of the life, behaviour, and conduct, of Simon, Lord Fraser, of Lovat, From his Birth at Beaufort near Inverness, in 1667, to his Execution on Tower-Hill, on Thursday, April 9, 1747. Containing A vast Variety of Actions in the different Scenes of Life in which his Lordship was engag'd; his artful Management in procuring a Pass from the Duke of Queensberry, to go into the Highlands to execute a Commission from the Court of France, to stir up a Rebellion, and the double Part he acted till he had done his Business, and got safe back to France. Also, The Share he had in the Rebellion; the Manner of forcing his Son into it. With An Extract of the Letter, which he sent to the Young Pretender on that Occasion. Likewise A particular Account of his Behaviour, during his Confinement in the Tower, and on the Scaffold at the Time of his Execution. By James Fraser, late of Inverness.
Fraser, James, 1713-1754.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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A full, true, and genuine account of the uncommon behaviour of Mr. Gill Smith, Late of Dartford, in Kent, Apothecary; From the Time of his receiving Sentence of Death, to his Execution, on Monday, April the 10th, 1738. Together with the Copy of a Letter, That was sent by his Mother to him, reproaching him with an Attempt to poison her, and his answer. To which are added, The Genuine Confession, Behaviour, and Dying Words, Of all the seven Malefactors that were Executed at Guildford, on Wednesday, April the 5th, 1738. As also a True Account of the Numerous Robberies committed by Connoly and his Accomplices, in England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Ireland. Likewise the Confession, Behaviour, and Dying Words, of Anne Goodson, who was Burnt for the Murder of her Husband. With some Original Papers, Delivered at the Place of Execution, to the Rev. Mr. Bannister, Minster in Guildford, who attended them while under Sentence of Death
Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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A genuine narrative of the life, behaviour, and conduct, of Simon, Lord Fraser, of Lovat, From his Birth at Beaufort near Inverness, in 1667, to his Execution on Tower-Hill, on Thursday, April 9, 1747. Containing A vast Variety of Actions in the different Scenes of Life in which his Lordship was engag'd; his artful Management in procuring a Pass from the Duke of Queensberry, to go into the Highlands to execute a Commission from the Court of France, to stir up a Rebellion, and the double Part he acted till he had done his Business, and got safe back to France. Also, The Share he had in the Rebellion; the Manner of forcing his Son into it. With An Extract of the Letter, which he sent to the Young Pretender on that Occasion. Likewise A particular Account of his Behaviour, during his Confinement in the Tower, and on the Scaffold at the Time of his Execution. By James Fraser, late of Inverness.
Fraser, James, 1713-1754.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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The genuine trial of Charles Drew, for the murder of his own father, at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmund's: on Thursday, March 27. 1740. For the County of Suffolk. To which is added, An Account of his Behaviour, whilst under Sentence of Death; Extract of the Sermon preach'd to him the Morning before his Execution; His Last Dying Speech and Confession deliver'd by him to the High Sheriff of the County; His Letter to his Sisters; Authentic Letters between him and Mrs. Boyer; and his Behaviour at the Place of Execution. By a gentleman of Bury, Well acquainted with the Family of the Drews, who in Court took the Trial down in Short-Hand.
Drew, Charles, -1740.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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No man liveth to himself. A sermon Preached before an Assembly of Protestant Dissenting-Ministers, Of the Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Met at Manchester, May 16, 1764, To carry into Execution a Scheme for the Relief of their Widows and Children; And published at their Request. By Joseph Priestley. Tutor in the Languages and Belles Lettres In the Academy at Warrington.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The life and glorious actions of the most heroic and magnanimous Jonathan Wilde, generalissimo of the prig-forces in Great-Britain and Ireland. Introduced with the most Memorable Passages in the lives of his ancestors; and concluding With his behaviour in Newgate, and at the place of Execution. With an explanation of the most usual terms of art in the canting dialect.
Date: 1725