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A true discovery of the conduct of receivers and thief-takers in and about the City of London; to the multiplication, and encouragement of thieves, house-breakers, and other loose and disorderly persons. Design'd as Preparatory to a larger Treatise, wherein shall be propos'd Methods to extirpate and suppress for the future such villanous Practices. Humbly Dedicated to the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen and Common-Council. By Charles Hitchin, One of the Marshals of the City of London.
Hitchin, Charles.Date: 1718- Books
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The extraordinary confession, life, and singular adventures, of wolfe; who was thirty years a notorious robber, murderer, and captain of a gang of fifty-three thieves. To which is added The wandering fugitive; or the surprising escapes of Frederic Winson, an assasin [sic].
Date: 1800- Books
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A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for penitent prostitutes. Observations concerning the Foundling-Hospital, shewing the ill consequences of giving public support thereto. Considerations relating to the poor and th poor's-laws of England; Wherein the great Increases of Unemployed Poor, and of Thieves and Prostitutes, are shewn to be immediately owing to the Severity, as well as the Defects of our Poor's - Laws; and to be primarily caused by the Monopolizing of Farms, and the Indosure of Common Lands; which have likewise decreased the Number of People, and brought our Woollen Manufacturies into a precarious State, as is made appear by Extracts from several Laws and other Authorities. Also, a New System of Policy, Most humbly proposed, for Relieving, Employing, and Ordering the Poor of England; Whereby a great Saving may be made in the Charge of Maintaining Them; the Poor's - Rates be kept nearly Equal in all Parishes, as in Equity they ought to be; and every Pretence for wandering about Begging, be taken away. To which are annexed, Forms of the principal Accounts necessary to be kept for those Purposes, whereby such Persons as are not conversant in Accounting will easily be able to comprehend all that is here proposed on that Head. By J. Massie.
Massie, J. (Joseph), -1784.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The life of Mr. John Stanley, of his parents: how serv'd by officers in his education. How harden'd when a boy in Spain gets to be an ensign in Ireland. How used by Mrs. Old-d. Triumphs over three of Mrs. Needham's Virgins in Clerkenwell Bridewell. Attack'd and admir'd by Thieves. With Captain Faulconer before he was kill'd, but escapes Mr. Winchurch's Sword. Why forced to turn Knight Errant. Preaches to Strumpets. How he miss'd the Murder of the Watchman in the Strand. Of his going on the Highway. Sent by the African Company to Cape-Coast Castle, but runs from Capt. Massey at Portsmouth. Goes to Flanders, &c. Of his Children by Mrs. Maycock: The exact Account of Stabbing her; Her dying Expressions, His Behaviour and Expressions Then, and in Newgate. His fancied Sights. His Defence, &c. at his Trial. His own Reasons to a Friend for the Murder. His behaviour in the condemn'd hole to his death. And other Particulars. Four letters. I. About certain Presages of his Death. II. Of his Father's being in the Press-Yard: And of his striking his best Friend, &c. III. A full Relation of young Stanley's Stabbing Mr. Dawson. IV. The true Story of his Fighting with and being Wounded by Lieutenant Chickley.
Date: [1723]- Books
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An essay in praise of knavery. Whether it be in c----ers, politicians, or lawyers; priests; p--lates, or church dignitaries; L--ds, merchants, or stock-jobbers; national plunderers, or pick-pockets; thieves, highway-men, or thief-takers; Turks, Jews, or infidels. Of all nations and countries.
Date: [1723]- Books
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Observations on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, and other atrocious murderers : measurements of the heads of the most notorious thieves confined in the Edinburgh Jail and Bridewell ... presenting and extensive series of facts subversive of phrenology / read before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh by Thomas Stone.
Stone, Thomas, M.D.Date: 1829- Books
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The history of the London club[s] or, The citizens pastime, Particulakly [sic], The lying club, The Yorkshire club, The thieves club, The beggars club, The broken shopkeepers club, The basket VVomans club. With a sermon preach'd to a gang of high-way-men. Part I. By the author of the London spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: 1709- Books
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Observations on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, and other atrocious murderers; measurements of the heads of the most notorious thieves confined in the Edinburgh Jail and Bridewell, and of various individuals, English, Scotch, and Irish, presenting an extensive series of facts subversive of phrenology / Read before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. By Thomas Stone.
Stone, Thomas.Date: 1829- Pictures
A cattle thief in Siam punished by having a yoke fixed around his neck. Process print, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 584125i- Books
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The second volume of The history of the lives of the most notorious high-way men, foot-pads, and other thieves, and murderers, of both sexes, for above fifty years last past; Continu'd from Du Vall, and the German Princess, which compleats the History to the present time. Wherein their Thefts, Cheats, and Murders, committed in Great-Britain, and Ireland, are farther are farther expos'd. By Capt. Alexander Smith.
Smith, Alexander, active 1714-1726.Date: 1714- Books
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The speech which was spoken by Oliver Cromwel, when he dissolv'd the Long Parliament.
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.Date: 1775?]- Books
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An answer to a late insolent libel, entituled, A discovery of the conduct of receivers and thief-takers, in and about the city of London; presumptuously Dedicated to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council. Written by Cs Hn. Wherein is prov'd in many particular instances, who is originally the grand thief-taker; that a certain author is guilty of more flagrant crimes, than any Theif-Taker mention'd in his Nonsensical Treatise; and that he has highly Reflected on the Magistracy of the City, in the said Scandalous Pamphlet. Set forth in several Entertaining Stories, Comical Intrigues, merry Adventures, particularly of the Ml and his Man the Buckle-Maker. With a Diverting Scene of a Sodomitish Academy.
Wild, Jonathan, 1682?-1725.Date: 1718- Books
The coral thief / Rebecca Stott.
Stott, Rebecca.Date: 2009- Books
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Stolen or strayed, this day, between Magdalen Bridge and the Petty Cury, on its road to the press, The university magazine. Had on when it disappeared a strait waistcoat. Whoever will give information thereof to its distressed owners, shall receive a reward of eighteen pence, or 3000 copies printed on very soft paper. N.B. Messrs. wit, common-sense, and grammar, are totally unsuspected of knowing any thing about it. Sydney College, March 1st, 1795.
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A chicken-thief in Yunnan Province, China, punished by being attached to a tree by his arms, watched by a crowd of people. Halftone after F.W. Carey.
Carey, Frederic W., 1874-1931.Date: 1900-1999Reference: 579909i- Books
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Some remarkable occurrences in the life and death of John Steptoe, who was executed at No-Man's-Land, near Reading, on the 25th of March, 1786, for sheep-stealing.
Date: [1786?]- Books
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The genuine life of William Cox, who is now under sentence of death, in Newgate, for robbing Mr. John Kendrick of Bank-Notes and Cash to the Amount of more than four hundred pounds; containing A Recital of the Particulars of a very great Number of the most artful Felonies ever committed in this Kingdom; faithfully penned from Authentic Accounts, received from the indubitable Authority of Cox's intimate Acquaintance.
Date: 1773- Books
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The genuine life of William Cox, who is now under sentence of death, in Newgate, for robbing Mr. John Kendrick of banknotes and cash to the amount of more than four hundred pounds; Containing A Recital of the Particulars of a very great Number of the most artful Felonies ever committed in this Kingdom; faithfully penned from Authentic Accounts, received from the indubitable Authority of Cox's intimate Acquaintance.
Date: [1773]- Books
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The Scoundrel's dictionary, or An explanation of the cant words used by the thieves, house-breakers, street-robbers and pick-pockets about town. To which is prefixed, some curious dissertations on the art of wheedling; and a collection of their flash songs, with a proper glossary. The whole printed from a copy taken on one of their gang, in the late scuffle between the watchmen and a party of them on clerkenwell-green; which copy is now in the custody of one of the constable of that parish.
Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Pictures
Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a thief with his thumbs chopped off. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1871Reference: 19736i- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag. Watercolour after J.J. van Vliet.
Vliet, Jan Joris van der, approximately 1610-Reference: 16435i- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag. Etching by J.J. van Vliet.
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The man who loved books too much : the true story of a thief, a detective, and a world of literary obsession / Allison Hoover Bartlett.
Bartlett, Allison HooverDate: 2010- Books
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An account of a most barbarous murther and robbry [sic], committed on the body of 'Squire Webb, near Enfield on Wednesday night last, being the 25th of October, 1704. by five house-breakers, ...
Date: 1704- Books
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The poor unhappy transported felon's sorrowful account of his fourteen years transportation at Virginia, in America. In six parts. Being a remakable and succinct history of the life of James Revel, the unhappy sufferer. Who was put apprentice by his father to a tinman, nearl moor-ficias, where he got into bad company, and before ong ran away, and went a robbing with a gang of thieves; but his master soon got him back: yet would not he be kept from his old companions, but went a thieving with them again; for which he was transported fourteen years. With an account of the way the transports works, and the punishment they receive for committing any fault. Concluding with a word of advice to all young men.
Revel, James.Date: 1780?]