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- Ephemera
An account of the trial, crimes, and execution of Wilkinson & Hetherington : two notorious highwaymen who were hanged at Morpeth, on Monday, Sept. 10, 1821, for various highway robberies committed in the neighbourhood of Newcastle.
Date: 1821- Books
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Report of the case : John Dorrance against Arthur Fenner, tried at the December term, of the court of common pleas, in the county of Providence, A.D. 1801 ; to which are added, the proceedings in the case [of] Arthur Fenner vs. John Dorrance / carefully compiled from notes correctly taken by several gentlemen who were present during the whole course of the trial.
Dorrance, John, 1747-1813.Date: 1802- Pictures
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A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828.Reference: 18059i- Pictures
Bandits armed with guns emerge from mountains and attack a group of people by a ford: two of the victims flee, the other three beg for mercy. Etching by F. Vivares, 1759, after F. Simonini.
Simonini, Francesco, 1686-1753.Date: 1st. Feb.y 1781Reference: 3044043i- Pictures
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Boer War: Boer soldiers tending the injured British soldiers and also robbing the dead. Process print after J. Greig.
Greig, James, active 1900.Reference: 22129i- Pictures
Well-dressed women queue up to see James Maclaine, the Gentleman Highwayman in Newgate prison. Engraving, 1750.
Carpenter, H.Date: [September 1750]Reference: 579639i- Pictures
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The good Samaritan helps the man who has been robbed and beaten. Engraving, 1793, after stained glass window at Healey Hall, Lancashire.
Date: 1793Reference: 23956i- Archives and manuscripts
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[RED+RUINS]
Date: 1920'sReference: WA/HMM/IC/3/B.2/15Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- E-books
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An Act for the more effectual preventing and punishing robberies that shall be committed in houses
Great Britain- Pictures
Elizabeth Adams. Etching, ca. 1738.
Date: [1738?]Reference: 559297i- E-books
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A Genuine account of the life, robberies, trial and execution, of William Hawke, call'd the Flying Highwayman. Who was executed at Tyburn, July the first, 1774. Containing his birth and education. His numerous robberies both as a footpad, and on the highw
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A full and impartial account of all the robberies committed by John Hawkins, George Sympson, ... and their companions. ..
Wilson, Ralph- E-books
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The trials of all the felon prisoners, tried, cast, and condemned, at Justice Hall, in the Old Baily. With the remarkable trial of Thomas Scott for a highway robery [sic]
Scott, Thomas- E-books
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Life and surprising robberies and adventures of William Page the noted highwayman; who was tried at Rochester ... and executed on ... April 6, 1758. ..
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The last speech and dying words of James Cranston, who was execute in the Grass Market of Edinburgh, upon the 4th. of October, 1723, for the crime of robery [sic] ..
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The good Samaritan helping a wounded man: two background scenes of robbing and assault while two figures walk by, set against Jerusalem. Line engraving by F. Berardi after G. Varana.
Varana, Giacomo.Reference: 17900i- E-books
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Animadversions on the street robberies in Dublin; Together with a proposal of a scheme to prevent them for the future. In a letter to a member of Parliament
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A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.Date: c. 1610Reference: 17505i- E-books
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A full and impartial account of all the robberies committed by John Hawkins, George Sympson, ... and their companions. ... Written by Ralph Wilson, late one of their confederates
Wilson, Ralph- E-books
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A full and impartial account of all the robberies committed by John Hawkins, George Sympson, ... and their companions. ... Written by Ralph Wilson, late one of their confederates
Wilson, Ralph- Pictures
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A convalescing patient complaining to his wife about his doctor's bills. Process print after S. Wood, 1911.
Wood, Starr, 1870-1944.Date: 22 March 1911Reference: 15760i- E-books
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Anno vicesimo quarto Georgii II. Regis. An act for the more effectual preventing of robberies and thefts upon any navigable rivers, ports of entry or discharge, wharfs, and keys adjacent
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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, ... Written by himself ..
Sheppard, Jack- E-books
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A true relation of a most wonderfull and strange accident, which happened on a young man, born at Dort a town in Holland; who ... was falsly accused for a robberie, ..
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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, ... Written by himself ..