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A collection of the several papers deliver'd by Mr. J. Gordon. The Earl of Derwentwater. Vt. Kenmure. Col. Oxburgh. R. Gascoigne. The Rd, Mr. Paul. J. Hall, Esq; Capt. J. Bruce. John Knox. To which is added a letter to the Earl of Derwentwater, during his Confinement in the Tower, sent by a Person of Eminence, never before Printed; together with one of Mr Gascoigne's to a Friend, the Night before his Execution. As likewise An Exact list of the names of all those who suffer'd Death on Account of the late rebellion. With the Number of those who Died in the Prisons of Newgate, Luncaster, and Carlisle.
Date: [1716]- Books
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A genuine narrative of the memorable life and actions of John Everett, who formerly kept the Cock Ale-House in the Old-Bailey; and lately the Tap in the Fleet-Prison, and was executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 20th day of February, 1729-30. To which is added, his humble address (by way of letter) to Mrs. Martha Ellis and Mrs Manly, whom he Robb'd, and for which he was Condemn'd. And likewise his letter to his brother's master, a Chair-Maker, &c. Written by himself when under Condemnation, and in his Cell in Newgate, and Publish'd at his own Request.
Everett, John, -1730.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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Celia's new garland: compos'd of eight new songs. I. Celia's complaint. II. The answer. III. The enamour'd swain. IV. A dialogue between a Ranter and a Love-Sick Quaker. V. The merchant son and young Susan. VI. Gossip Joan. Vii. The young mens warning-piece: Shewing the wicked Lives and evil Courses of the Six Malefactors, now hanging in Chains. Viii. The cruel woman: or. The Monster of a Wife; being the Prison Groansof Margaret Hayes, with a Dialogue between Thomas Billing, and Thomas Wood, her two bloody Companions now in Newgate, &c. Enter'd in the Stamp-Office, according to the late Act of Parliament.
Date: [1728?]- Books
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Murther will out; or A true and faithful relation of a horrible murther : commited thirty three years ago , by an unnatural mother, upon the body of her own child about a year old, and was never discovered till this 24th of November 1675. by her own self, upon the fears of an approaching death : for which crime she was taken from her bed, and carried in a coach to prison, where she remains very penitent. With an account from her own mouth how she was tempted to commit this murder by the devil: As also how she finished it. The truth of this you may be satisfied with at Newgate.
Date: [1675?]- Books
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The History of the press-yard: Or, a brief account of the customs and occurrences that are put in practice, and to be met with in that antient repository of living bodies, called, His Majesty's goal of Newgate in London: wherein, besides several descriptions and characters never before made publick, are inserted, I. The history of the unfortunate florimel, one of the state prisoners that has been confin'd their upwards of twenty one years. II. An interview with the ordinary: the manner of his turning confessor, and the method used by him in that office. III. The manner of the reception of the prisoners from preston there. IV. Young Mr. Botairs account of the action between the King's troops and the rebels; with the true causes of their surrender. V. The escape of Mr. Forster; the demeanour of Col. Oxburgh and Mr. Gascoigne, as also of Mr. Paul and Mr. Hall after sentence of death, with several original letters from them, relating to the crimes for which they suffer'd, to the Dukes of Marlborough, Argyle, &c. Likewise one from Sir H-B- to Mr. Gascoigne. VI. The usuage and sickness of Mr. Francia the Jew; the escapes of Mr. Radclisse, Mr. Budden, and Mr. George Plint: The releasement of the author; and other original letters sent to a noble English peer, relating to the hardships the preston prisoners labour'd under.
Date: 1717- Books
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A true and faithful narrative of the life and actions of John Oneby, Esq; Commonly called Major One BY; who was to have been executed last Monday at Tyburn, for the murder of William Gower, Esq; giving an account of his birth, Parentage and Education. Of his Killing Count Truxy a Saxon Officer in Flanders; Lieut. Toolley in Jamica, and the Murder of himself in Newgate: with the copy of a letter he wrote to a Gentleman an Hour before he committed that Violent Action; and of an Amazing Wicked Declaration he made a few Days before it, of an Undertaker's Letter to him about his Burial; and his Behaviour thereupon. Also, of a remarkable Instance of Generosity in one of his Fellow-Prisoners. With many other Surprizing Particulars.
Date: [1727?]- Books
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De Laune's plea for the non-conformists: shewing the true state of their case, and how far the conformists separation from the Church of Rome for their Popish Superstitions, &c. introduced into the Service of God, justifies the non-conformist's separation from them for the same. In a Letter to Dr. Benjamin Calamy, upon his Sermon, called Scrupulous Conscience, inviting hereto. To which is added, a Parallel Scheme of the Pagan, Papal, and Christian Rites and Ceremonies. With a narrative of the remarkable tryal and sufferings underwent for Writing, Printing and Publishing hereof. By Thomas Delaune, who died in Newgate during his Imprisonment for this Book. Printed Twenty Years ago; But being seiz'd by the Messenger of the Press, was afterwards Burnt by the Common-Hang-Man: And is now Re-Printed from the Author's Original Copy; and Published by a Protestant Dissenter, who was the Author's Fellow-Prisoner at the Time of his Death, for the Cause of Non-Conformity.
De Laune, Thomas, -1685.Date: 1704- Books
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The true and genuine account of the trial and all the most material transactions respecting the reverend Dr. Dodd, Chaplain to the Earl of Chesterfield, &c. Who was condemn'd at the Old Bailey, on Saturday the 22d. of February, 1777. For Forging, and uttering as true, a counterfeit counterfeit Bond, purporting to be the Bond of the Earl of Chesterfield; with Intent to defraud Messrs. Fletcher and Peach, Esqs. Also The Examination of Messrs. Robinson and Dodd before the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, for the said Forgeries, and their seperate Defences. To which is added, The convict's address, to his fellow Prisoners, being a Sermon which he preached whilst in Newgate under Condemnation; and the Speech which he made at receiving Sentence; with the prayer which he composed the Night before his Execution, found among his Papers. And some very curious Anecdotes of the reverend Doctor, both in his public and private Life.
Dodd, William, 1729-1777.Date: 1777]- Books
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De Laune's plea for the non-conformists: shewing the true state of their case, and how for the conformist's separation from the Church of Rome for their Popish Superstitions, &c. introduced into the Service of God, justifies the non-conformist's separation from them for the same. In a Letter to Dr. Benjamin Calamy, upon his Sermon, called, Scrupulous Conscience, inviting hereto. To which is added, a Parallel Scheme of the Pagan, Papal, and Christian Rites and Ceremonies. With a narrative of the remarkable tryal and sufferings underwent for Writing, Printing and Publishing hereof. By Thomas Delaune, who died in Newgate during his Imprisonment for this Book. Printed Twenty Years ago; But being seiz'd by the Messenger of the Press, was afterwards Burnt by the Common-Hang-Man: And is now Re-Printed from the Author's Original Copy; and Published by a Protestant Dissenter, who was the Author's Fellow-Prisoner at the Time of his Death, for the Cause of Non-Conformity.
De Laune, Thomas, -1685.Date: 1704- Books
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The world display'd: or, mankind painted in their proper colours. Consisting of the various characters and passions of the inhabitants of the world, viz. The young Man The stay'd Man The good old Man The modest Man The bold Man The complaisant Man The rich Man The poor Man The self conceited Man The suspicious Man The reserved Man The contemplative Man The ordinary honest Man The lascivious Man The prophane Man The World's wise Man The proud Man The meddling Man The weak Man The affected Man The mere great Man The plain Countryman The jealous Man The fordid rich Man Women The wanton Woman The modest Woman The pretended godly Woman The religious Woman The witty Woman The prudent Woman The penurious Woman The ganing Woman The good Housewife The diligent Woman The litigious Woman The quiet Woman Character of a good Prime-Minister. A good Lord-Mayor. Good Magistrates. An Attorney. A raw young Preacher. An Alderman. An upstart Knight. A Coward. A Physician. A Surgeon An Apothecary A Citizen. A grave Divine A handsome Bar keeper. A University Dun. A Sergeant, or Catchpole. Common Singing Men. Musicians. A Trumpeter. With many Others. To which is added, A description of a prison: Particularly Ludgate; Newgate; the two Compters; Bridewell; New-Prison, Clerkenwell; Gatehouse, Westminster; and the New Gaol, South wark, with the Characters of their several Keepers, Turnkeys, &c.
Earle, John, 1600 or 1601-1665.Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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A trip from St. James's to the Royal-Exchange. With remarks serious and diverting, on the manners, customs, and amusements of the inhabitants of London and Westminster. An Account of a City Entertainment in Christmas Holidays, with lively Conversation there. Wrangle between a Barrister at Law and a Foot-Soldier on the first Day of Term. Description of an Infant-Office, for letting out Children to Beggars. Proceedings of a Society of Affidavit-Men, Watch-Takers, &c The Management of Undertakers for Funerals; with their Method of getting Intelligence. Observations on the Behaviour of Maid-Servants, and Characters of several. Cavalcade from Newgate to Tyburn, with the Behaviour of Jailors and Prisoners. Modern Conversation at Coffee-Houses and Ordinaries. Ludgate, and its Inmates describ'd. The peculiar Talent of the City-Beaus, for Disputation. On the Antiquity of Lace Russles. On Constitution-Hill, St. James's-Park, and the Company there. Remarks on News-Writers, and their Works; with a sure Method of promoting the Sale of Pamphlets. &c. &c. &c.
Date: [1744]- Books
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The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches. Containing new and authentic accounts of all the lives, adventures, exploits, trials, executions and last dying speeches, confessions, (as well as letters to their relatives never before published) of the most notorious malefactors and others of both sexes and all denominations, who have suffered death and other exemplary punishments for murders, burglaries, felonies, horse-stealing, bigamy, forgeries, highway robberies, footpad robberies, perjuries, piracies, rapes, riots, mobbing, sodomy, starving to death, sheep stealing, swindling, high-treason, petit-treason, sedition, and other misdemeanors. Interspersed with notes, reflections, and remarks, arising from the several subjects, moral, useful, and entertaining. Including the transactions of the most remarkable prisoners, tried for high treason at the Old Bailey, viz. Hardy, Horne Tooke, Thelwall, &c. Likewise the trials of Watt, Downe, Palmer, Fitzgerald, Margarott, &c. &c. at Edinburgh for High Treason, Sedition, Libels, &c. &c. Comprehending also, all the most material passages in the sessions papers for a long series of years; together with the ordinary of Newgate's Account of the capital convicts; and complete narratives of all the most remarkable trials Also a great variety of the most important lives and trials never before published in any former work of the kind. The whole containing the most faithful narratives ever yet published of the various executions, and other exemplary punishments, which have happened in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the year 1700, to the end of the year 1795. Properly arranged from the records of court. By William Jackson, Esq. Of the Inner-Temple, barrister at law; assisted by others. ... Illustrated with upwards of sixty most elegant copper plates.
Jackson, William, active 1795.Date: [1795]- Books
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Memoirs of the right villanous John Hall, the late famous and notorious robber, penn'd from his own mouth some time before his death. Containing the exact life and character of a thief in general. As also a lively representation of Newgate, and its inhabitants, with the manners and customs observed there. The nature and means by which they commit their several thefts and robberies, and the distinctions observed in their respective functions. To which is added, the cant generally us'd by those sort of people to conceal their villanies; and rules to avoid being robb'd or cheated by them. Usefully set forth for the good of the publick, at the instance of many honest people.
Hall, John, -1707 December 17.Date: 1708- Books
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A trip through London: containing observations on men and things. Viz. An Account of the vast Number of Foreigners Yearly Imported. How Wales sends more Footmen than Gentlemen to London. A Reason for the Streets and Highways in the City and Liberty of Westminster being kept in no better Repair. A Description of the Coffee-Houses about Whitehall. A merry Differtation upon News-Papers, Authors, Printers, and Publishers. An entertaining Description of St. James's Park; how the Horse-Guards are worse Soldiers and better Subjects than the Foot-Guards. A remarkable Controversy between a Bawd and a Sodomite, on one of the Seats near Buckingham-House. Of a Person of Quality's Cloaths sold off his Back in the Mall by his Valet de Chambre. New Votes. Schemes and Designs of the Irish Society of Fortune-Hunters, An Account of the Exeter-'change Beauties, the Undertaker's Club-Feast, the Method of their obtaining and managing Funerals; and of a Miser's bequeathing his Body to the Royal Society to save the Expences of Interment. A Description of the Fleet-Street Coffee-Houses, Temple Beaus, Prison of Newgate, Ludgate-Hall, Black-Fryers, and St. Paul's Cathedral. An Account of the surprizing Revolution at the Theatre in the Hay-Market, and the wonderful happy Deliverance of these Nations from popish Italian Songs, and Common Sense. By Jack G--y, Tom W--ik--, and Mol' Fem--in
Jones, Erasmus, -1740.Date: [1728]- Books
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A trip through London: Containing observations on men and things. Viz. An account of the vast numbers of forreigners yearly imported. How Wales sends more footmen than gentlemen to London, with an account of their behaviour. A reason why the streets and highways in the city and liberty of Westminster, are kept in no better repair. A description of the Coffee-Houses about Whitehall. A merry dissertation upon news-papers, authors, printers, and publishers. An entertaining description of St. James's Park; how the horse guards; are worse soldiers and better subjects than the foot guards: A remarkable recounter between a bawd and a sodomite, on one of the seats near Buckingham-House. Of a person of quality's cloaths sold off his back in the mall by auction, by his Valet De Chambre; and of the Duke of Wh--ton's challenging a consumptive upon constitution-hill. New votes, schemes and designs of the Irish Society of Fortune-hunters. An account of the Exeter's-change beauties, the undertaker's club-feast, the method of their obtaining and managing funerals; and of a Miser's bequeathing his body to the Royal Society to save the expence of interment. Practices of petty-foggers expos'd. A description of the Fleet-street Coffee-Houses, Temple Beaus, Prison of Newgate, Ludgate-hill, Black-fryers, and St. Paul's. Of the fire-makers, dog-stealers, false-pollers, and affidavit-makers, new trading companies set up in London. An account of the pride, insolencies, and humours of the city apprentices; with many other notable and diverting relations. To which is added, a brief and merry character of Ireland, by a Berkshire gentleman lately return'd from that kingdom.
Jones, Erasmus, -1740.Date: 1728- Books
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A trip through London: containing observations on men and things. Viz. An account of the vast numbers of forreigners yearly imported. How Wales sends more Footmen than Gentlemen to London, with an Account of their Behaviour. A Reason why the Streets and Highways in the City and Liberty of Westminster, are kept in no better Repair. A Description of the Coffee-Houses about Whitehall. A merry Dissertation upon News-Papers, Authors, Printers, and Publishers. An entertaining Description of St. James's Park; how the Horse Guards are worse Soldiers and better Subjects than the Foot Guards: A remarkable Rencounter between a Bawd and a Sodomite, on one of the Seats near Buckingham-House. Of a Person of Quality's Cloaths sold off his Back ... the Mall by Auction, by his ... Chambre; and of the Duke of Wh--ton's Challenging a Consumptive upon Constitution-Hill. New Votes, Schemes and Designs of the Irish Society of Fortune-Hunters. An Account of the Exeter-'change Beauties, the Undertaker's Club-Feast, the Method of their obtaining and managing Funerals; and of a Miser's bequeathing his Body to the Royal Society to save the Expence of Interment. Practices of Petty-Foggers expos'd. A description of the Fleet-Street Coffee-Houses, Temple Beaus, Prison of Newgate, Ludgate-Hill, Black-Fryers, and St. Paul's. Of the Fire-Makers, Dog-Stealers, False-Pollers, and Affidavit-Makers, new Trading Companies set up in London. An Account of the Pride, Insolencies, and Humours of the City Apprentices; with many other notable and diverting Relations. To which is added, a brief and merry character of Ireland, by a Berkshire gentleman lately return'd from that Kingdom.
Jones, Erasmus, -1740.Date: [1728]- Pictures
Sally Salisbury, holding flowers in her hand. Mezzotint by J. Smith after G. Kneller.
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723.Reference: 27962i- Archives and manuscripts
Burking Miscellany
Date: 1831Reference: MS.7058- Digital Images
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Confession of Thomas Williams, 2 parts.
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Handbill describing trial of Bishop, Williams and May.
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Poem ("James May is doomed to die...")
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Alexander Leighton. Etching by W. Hollar.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 5510i