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The life of James Aitken, commonly called John the Painter, an incendiary, who was tried at the Castle of Winchester, on Thursday the 7th day of March, 1777, and convicted of setting fire to His Majesty's dock-yard, at Portsmouth, Exhibiting a detail of Facts of the utmost Importance to Great Britain. The whole faithfully taken down from the convict's own mouth, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, preceding his Execution.
Aitken, James, 1752-1777.Date: [1777]- Books
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Information for David Young portioner of Gilmeadowland, pannel, against His Majesty's advocate, and Alexander Mitchel of Mitchel writer to the Signet, pursuers.
Young, David, portioner of Gilmeadowland.Date: 1738]- Books
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The appellants case. Tho. Wilson, Tho. Sheppard, Wm. Claxton, and Geo. Parker. Appellants. Thomas Townley, attorney at law. Respondent.
Wilson, Thomas, of St. Bride's parish.Date: 1706]- Books
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The trial (at large) of James Hill; otherwise, James Hind; otherwise, James Actzen: for feloniously, wilfully, and maliciously, setting fire to the rope-house, in His Majesty's dock-yard at Portsmouth. Tried at the assize, at Winchester, on Thursday, March 6, 1777. Before the Honorable Sir William Henry Ashhurst, Knt. One of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of King's-Bench; and Sir Beaumont Hotham, Knt. One of the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer. Taken, in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney: and Published by Permission of the Judges.
Aitken, James, 1752-1777.Date: [1777]- Books
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The Lord's voice, crying to his people: in some extraordinary dispensations considered in a sermon, upon Micah VI. 9. Preached 27 d. 1 m. 1715. Occasioned by the terrible tragedies of a man barbarbously murdering his wife and her sister, and then burning his house, March 22, 1715. Together with some account about the poor man written for the benefit of the living. By Nathaniel Clap, M.A. Preacher of the Gospel at N. Port, R. Island.
Clap, Nathaniel, 1669-1745.Date: 1715- Pictures
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St George's Fields, Southwark: anti-Catholic rioters in the Gordon riots wielding sticks, displaying banners, and setting buildings on fire. Etching, 1780.
Date: The 1st of Aug.st 1780Reference: 37719i- Books
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The True and remarkable lives and adventures, of David Clarey, under sentence of death in Newgate, for setting fire to his house. And Catherine Heyland, condemned to be burnt at a stake, for coining.
Date: 1788?]- Books
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The true narrative of the confession and execution of the three prisoners at Kingstone upon Thames, in the county of Surrie. On Monday the 22th of March, 1679 : With the account of their particular facts for which they suffered, as more particularly the last confession and exhortation of Margaret Clark, who fired her masters house in Southwark. And James Christian for killing the waterman, John Selby, John Seamor alias Herring, three notorious highway men. With the names of the places where they committed the facts, for which they now suffer; and many other remarkable circumstances.
Date: [1680]- Books
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Sinners directed to hear & fear, and do no more so wickedly. Being an impartial account of the inhumane and barbarbous murder, committed by Jeremiah Meacham, on his wife and her sister, at Newport on Rhode-Island, March 22d. 1715. With some account of his life, tryal, carriage before and after condemnation; his confession, prayers, and last dying words at the place of execution, which was April the 12th. 1715. Also a sermon preached in his hearing: on Psalm LI. 17. By Mr. Nathaniel Clap, Minister of the Gospel in Newport, Rhode-Island.
Clap, Nathaniel, 1669-1745.Date: 1715- Books
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Information for His Majesty's advocate for His Highness's interest, and Alexander Mitchell of Mitchell writer to the Signet, pursuers, against David Young portioner of Gilmeadowland, pannel.
Scotland. Lord Advocate (Erskine : 1737-1742)Date: 1738]- Archives and manuscripts
Subjects: Violence. 'Crime, Penology, etc. IV Cases'
Date: 1967-1975Reference: PP/ROS/E/8/2/26Part of: The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)- Archives and manuscripts
Original art work for Crime Story
Date: 1960-1980Reference: WTI/DPB/C/8/2/10- Books
More chemistry and crime : from marsh arsenic test to DNA profile / Samuel M. Gerber, ed., Richard Saferstein, ed.
Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
The Wilmington Ten : violence, injustice, and the rise of black politics in the 1970s / Kenneth Robert Janken.
Janken, Kenneth Robert, 1956-Date: [2015]- Books
Bad girls at Samarcand : sexuality and sterilization in a southern juvenile reformatory / Karin L. Zipf.
Zipf, Karin L., 1968-Date: [2016]- Archives and manuscripts
Compendium of learned medical treatises (Miscellanea Medica XXI)
Date: 14th CenturyReference: MS.547