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A fox is pleading before the lion dressed as king while an execution of a fox takes place outside. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899.Date: 1853Reference: 39618i- Books
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A narrative of the sufferings and relief of a young girl; strangely molested by evil spirits and their instruments, in the west: collected from authentic testimonies, with a Preface and Postscript. Containing Reflections on what is most Material or Curious, either in the History or Trial of the Seven Witches who were condemned and Burnt in the Gallow Green, of Paisley.
Cullen, Francis Grant, Lord, 1658-1726.Date: 1775- Books
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[The Sal]isbury assizes : [...]ard of witchcraft. Being a true relation of one mistris Bodnan living in Fisherton, next house but one to the gallowes, who being [a] Witch seduced a maid, called by name, Anne Stiles, to the same abominable and detested action of vvitchcraft; which VVitch for that action was executed the 19 day of March 1653. To the tune of Bragandary.
Date: [1653?]- Pictures
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Florence Hensey. Line engraving.
Reference: 4143i- Pictures
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Roderigo Lopez: he conspires to poison Queen Elizabeth I and is hanged. Photograph after an engraving by F. van Hulsen, 1627.
Hulsius, Friedrich van, 1580-Reference: 13930i- Pictures
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Above, a dagger is thrown in the direction of a priest on a platform; below, monks pointing at and showing signs of distress at the sight of a cat hanged in a priest's habit. Engraving with etching, 1812.
Date: 6 March 1812Reference: 43195i- Pictures
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French troops loading a ship for the invasion of England. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: June 1st 1798Reference: 39259i- Ephemera
The spider and fly : the advertiser takes this opportunity of informing his friends and a discerning public, that he continues the trade of making drunkards, paupers, thieves, beggars, adulterers, and murderers, on the most reasonable terms, and without notice.
Date: [between 1820 and 1829?]- Books
Stay cool : why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change / Aaron Sachs.
Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob)Date: [2023]- Books
The mark of Cain : guilt and denial in the post-war lives of Nazi perpetrators / Katharina von Kellenbach.
Kellenbach, Katharina von, 1960-Date: [2013]- Pictures
World War I: wounded soldiers with nurses and ancillary staff. Photograph, ca. 1917.
Date: [1917?]Reference: 2848908i- Pictures
Sir Hugh Spencer (Hugh Le Despenser) fastened to a ladder and disembowled alive in Hereford while a crowd of spectators gathers around a fire below the ladders. Coloured lithograph.
Date: [1845]Reference: 43450i- Books
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Capital punishment and the criminal corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834 / Rachel E. Bennett.
Bennett, Rachel E.Date: [2018]- Books
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The case of Richd. Gascoigne, Esq; executed at Tyburn for high treason, on Friday, the 27th of May, 1716. With a particular account of his trial, and the manner of his behaviour under sentence of condemnation, and at the place of execution. As also a true copy of a letter sent by him to Sir C. J. the night before he suffered; to which is added that of the paper delivered by him to the sheriff of Middlesex, and his last dying words taken at the gallows in short-hand-writing.
Gascoigne, Richard, -1716.Date: 1716- Books
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Calumny detected, and malice defeated: being a succinct and just account of certain late endeavours against Mr. J. J. Sherenbeck, of Plymouth, merchant, tending to destroy his reputation and ruin himself: But which have providentially proved abortive, and the Shame laid at the Adversary's own Door. In which is contained, at large, the last and dying declaration of Edward Kennedy, who was executed at Heavytree-Gallows, on Friday April 11, 1760: Taken directly from his own Mouth, and attested by him at the Place of Execution to the last. By a friend to truth, and an enemy to no man's person.
Friend to truth.Date: [1760]- Books
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The rebels almanack : calculated for the use of all loyal subjects within these his Majesties realms and dominions. Wherein is discovered, a new nest of old monsters; with all their secret wicked, and treasonable conspiracies, horrid plots, and bloody combinations, both against King and kingdoms. Likewise, the charge, judgmemt, and impeachment, against politick Lambert, seal-keeper Lisle, Blooms-bury Martin, blind-beetle Mayne, bloody Holland, and the London-apprentices circumsizing Pennington; who for all their abominable treasons and murthers, are to receive their just reward, and wages of death, at Tower-Hill and the gallows.
Date: 1660- Pictures
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The murder of Captain Benevente, and the conspiracy and subsequent divine punishment of the culprits. Etching with engraving and letterpress.
Date: [1726?]Reference: 43758i- Pictures
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Recruitment and measurement of soldiers outside a village inn. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: December 1st 1799Reference: 39257i- Archives and manuscripts
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Kenward, Nikki
Date: 12/09/2009Reference: TP1/A/1634Part of: One and Other Project- Pictures
Aldermen of the City of London Corporation represented as Chinese and as monsters in procession to Westminster to protest against the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching after J.H. O'Neale, 1763.
O'Neale, Jefferyes Hamett, -1801.Date: [1763]Reference: 31512i- Books
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News from the dead, or a faithful and genuine narrative of an extraordinary combat between life and death, exemplified in the case of William Duell, One of the Malefactors who was executed at Tyburn on Monday the 24th of this instant November, for a Rape, Robbery and Murder, and who soon after return'd to life at Barber-Surgeon's-Hall, where he had been brought too from the Place of Execution, in Order to be Anatomiz'd. With a true Account Of all the Particulars that happen'd to him, and the many surprizing Things he saw during the Interval of Time that passed between his being turned off at the Gallows, and his Recovery to Life. The whole taken from his own mouth in Newgate, where he now lies.
Duell, William.Date: [1740]- Books
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The narrative of Whiting Sweeting, who was executed at Albany, the 26th of August, 1791. Containing, an account of his trial before the Supreme Court of Judicature of the state of New-York, at the July term, 1791, for the murder of Darius Quimby--the substance of the charge of His Honor the chief justice to the jury, with the sentence of death on the prisoner--an address to the public on the fatal consequences of a life spent in sin, instanced in his own conduct ... Written by himself, and published for the benefit of precious souls, at his particular and dyin request. To which are added, an account of the behaviour of the unhappy sufferer, from his confinement to execution, and the substance of his address at the gallows. By one who had free access to, and frequent cenversation [sic] with him.
Sweeting, Whiting, -1791.Date: 1797- Books
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Two sermons: the first from Psalm CII. 19, 20. Delivered the Lord's-Day before the execution of Levi Ames. Who was executed at Boston, Thursday October 21. for burglary. Aet. 22. This discourse was preached at the desire of the criminal, who also attended on the occasion. The second from Proverbs XVII. 25. Preached the Lords-Day after his execution; and designed as an improvement of that awful event, by way of caution to others. To which is added, at the request of many, an account of the exercise of his mind, from the time of his condemnation, till he left the world; together with the conversation the author had with him as he walked with him from the prison to the gallows. By all which, compared with his latter conduct, he may be thought in a judgment of charity, to have died, a penitent thief. By Samuel Stillman, A.M. Pastor of the First Baptist Churc in Boston. [One line from Luke]
Stillman, Samuel, 1738-1807.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Two sermons: the first from Psalm CII. 19, 20. Delivered the Lord's Day before the execution of Levi Ames, who was executed at Boston, Thursday October twenty-first, for burglary, aet. 22. This discourse was preached at the desire of the criminal, who also attended on the occasion. The second from Proverbs XVII. 25. Preached the Lord's-Day after his execution; and designed as an improvement of that awful event, by way of caution to others. To which is added, at the request of many, an account of the exercise of his mind, from the time of his condemnation, until he left the world; together with the conversation the author had with him as he walked with him from the prison to the gallows. By all which, compared with his latter conduct, he may be thought in a judgment of charity, to have died, a penitent thief. By Samuel Stillman, A.M. Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston. [One line from Luke]
Stillman, Samuel, 1738-1807.Date: M,DCC,LXXII. [1773]- Books
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The Bristol garland. Entituled, The afflicted parents; or, The undutiful child punished. In two parts. Part, first. Shewing how a gentleman living in the city of Bristol, who had two children, viz, one, a son, and the other a daughter, which was about two years younger than the son; giving an account how the girl gave good advice to her brother, and how he rejected it and knock'd her down, left her for dead, and then went away; how the angel appeared to him, and how he was taken up try'd, cast and condemn'd to die part, second. Shewing, how he was executed at the Gallows with two highwaymen, and being all cut down together, how his parents got him cariried home and prepared for his funeral; as also how his mother observ'd him to breath, and he was brought to life again, and how he was executed a second time, being a warning to all disobedient children to their parents. To which is added, the Prince of Orange's letter to a Princess Royal. Licens'd and enter'd according to order.
Date: 1733?]