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An account of the conversion of Edward Lee, a malefactor, who was executed at Haverford-West, in Wales, for a robbery. In a letter from Mr. Cennick, to his friend in London.
Cennick, John, 1718-1755.Date: 1756- Books
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The case and appeal of John Hudson, one of the officers of His Majesty's revenue of excise: who was tried at the Old Bailey, in December, 1779, upon a charge of committing a robbery in the Shop of Robert Davis, Grocer, (no. 164) in Fenchurch Street. To which is added The Whole of the Trial as it was taken in Short Hand, and published by Authority, with Notes and Observations thereon; meriting not only the Notice of the Public in General, but the most Serious Attention of every Officer of His Majesty's Revenue.
Hudson, John, Officer of Excise.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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An Act for the further preventing robbery, burglary, and other felonies, and for the more effectual transportation of felons, and unlawful exporters of wooll; and for declaring the law upon some points relating to pirates.
Great Britain.Date: 1718]- Books
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An account of the conversion of Edward Lee, a malefactor, who was executed at Haverford-West, in Wales, for a robbery. In a letter from the late Rev. Mr. Cennick, to his friend in London.
Cennick, John, 1718-1755.Date: [1789]- Books
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By the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, a proclamation, offering a reward for discovering and apprehending the persons concerned in the robbery and assault of Richard Shee, of Ballylorkan in the county of Kilkenny.
Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1731-1737 : Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke of Dorset)Date: 1735- Books
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Genuine copy. The life of James McKaen, shoemaker in Glasgow, who was executed at the cross of Glasgow on Wednesday the 25th Jan. 1797. for the murder and robbery of James Buchanan, the Lanark carrier.
McKaen, James, 1752 or 1753-1797.Date: [1797]- Books
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An elegy and epitaph on the never to be lamented death of Colonel Lewis Campbel, who was executed in the Grass Market of Edinburgh, for the crime of thift [sic] and robbery, on Munday April 6, 1730.
Date: 1730]- Books
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The remarkable case of William Bower of York, convicted for the robbery of Mr. Levit Harris then a School-Boy at Scorton near Richmond, now a Commoner of Exeter College in Oxford. Containing a summary of the trial, and a full relation of the discovery since made by one Taylor alias Robinson, supported by Affidavits of Persons of incontestable Credit: together with a few brief remarks on George Gardner's information, and several other Proofs of Mr. Harris's. To which is added an appendix, concerning some affidavits, said to be Obtain'd by Mr. Harris or his Friends, tending to prove Taylor at Darlington, when he Confess'd himself robbing Mr. Harris on Hessey-Moor.
Bower, William, of York.Date: [1744]- Books
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A new year's gift to workmen and apprentices, from Rowland Hunt, Esq. Containing the relation of wrong and robbery in France, with Marat's visit to the devil: and of right and property in England, with John Bull content.
Hunt, Rowland.Date: [1796]- Books
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A full and true account of the life, birth, parentage, conversation, and death, of Mr. Thomas Mac-Nemarra, an Irish gentleman; who was executed at Tyburn, on Wednesday, the 27th of July, for a notorious robbery ...
Date: [1710]- Books
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The whole tryal and condemnation of George Griffith, who was try'd at the Kings Bench Bar, this present Monday being the 18th instant October 1731. For the barbarous and bloody murder and robbery committed on the body of John Creage the 22d of September last on the high road near Drumcondra. ...
Griffith, George, active 1731.Date: [1731]- Pictures
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The Beggar's opera: on trial for robbery, Captain Macheath stands in shackles in Newgate prison, while two of his lovers (Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit) plead for his life. Engraving by W. Blake after W. Hogarth, 1st July 1790.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1 July 1790Reference: 579429i- Books
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The history of the lives and extraordinary adventures of the most famous pyrates, highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, &c. Also a genuine account of the voyages, travels and plunders of each particular hero, with an exact description of every engagement, robbery, murder, &c.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The Means of effectually preventing theft and robbery; Together with our present cruel punishments of those and other crimes: the means of immediately suppressing vagrant beggary: of speedily abolishing our poor's rates: and of relieving the present oppression of our labouring commonalty.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The means of effectually preventing theft and robbery; together with our present cruel punishments of those and other crimes: the means of immediately suppressing vagrant beggary: of speedily abolishing our poor's rates: and of Relieving the Present Oppression of our Labouring Commonalty.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Pictures
"I know where I'm going, I'm alright..." Too much drink can lower your defences and make you less aware of what is going on around you. It could even leave you open to robbery or assault. Do you know when to stop?
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A robbery committed, and restitution made, both to God and man. A sermon on Psal. lxix. 4. Then I restored that which I took not away. Preached upon a Thanksgiving-Day after the sacrament in Dunfermline, Monday August 11. 1746. By Mr. Ebenezer Erskine minister of the Gospel at Stirling.
Erskine, Ebenezer, 1680-1754.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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By the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland, a proclamation, offering a reward for apprehending Teige alias Timothy Croneen, for the murder of Mr. Andrew St. Leger, late of Ballyvolane in the county of Corke, and Jane St. Leger his wife, and for the robbery of the said Andre St. Leger.
Ireland. Lords Justices and Council.Date: 1730- Books
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Particulars of the very singular and remarkable trials, convictions, and escapes, of John Shepherd. Together with his history from his birth, &c. In which is included a minute account of his unparallelled species of treachery to his associate, Leonard Sullivan, who was executed at Maidstone for a robbery committed in Shepherd's company.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Tryal and examination of William Todd attorney, for the murder of Pierce Rice, 20th of February last, at the Golden Bottle ... Dublin. Also the tryal of Paul Farrel for a robbery, who were try'd at the King's Bench Bar, this present Tuesday being the 5th of this instant Ma 1730. ...
Todd, William (Attorney)Date: 1730]- Books
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Inferior politics: Or, Considerations on the state of the poor, especially in London and its vicinity; on the defects in the system of parochial and penal laws; the increase of robbery, and other crimes; and means of redressing these public grievances. With an appendix, containing a plan for the reduction of the national debt.
Luson, Hewling.Date: 1788- Books
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An authentic narrative of the methods by which the robbery committed in the house of the Right-Honourable the Earl of Harrington, in the Stable-Yard, St. James's, was discovered. With some remarkable anecdotes, and original letters sent to Sir John Fielding on the occasion. By Mr. James Bevell, Steward to the Earl of Harrington.
Bevell, James.Date: [1765]- Books
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Select trials for murder, robbery, burglary, rapes, sodomy, coining, Forgery, Pyracy, and other offences and misdemeanours, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, to which are added genuine accounts of the lives, exploits, Behaviour, Confessions, and Dying-Speeches, of the most notorious convicts, from the year 1741 to the present year, 1764, inclusive; which completes the trials from the year 1720. In Four Volumes. ...
Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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A genuine account of the life of John Rann, alias Sixteen-string Jack: who was executed November 30th. 1774, for a robbery on the highway, near Brentford; ... some curious anecdotes of Miss Smith and Miss Roche, ... to which is added some strictures on the penal laws, an a particular account of Lane and Trotman, now under sentence of death for the ... robbery of Mr. Floyd, ... near Chelsea.
Date: [1774?]- Books
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The Female garland or, The virgin's monitor. In four delightful new songs. Song I. The lady's council: or, A word of King advice to the fair and beautiful virgins of London and Westminister. Song II. Ranting Joan. Song III. The faithful lover; or, The young man love slighted by an unconstant mistress. Song IV. The weetsted robbery: or, Roguery caught in a trap.
Date: 1750?]