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The malefactor's register; or, the Newgate and Tyburn calendar. Containing the authentic lives, trials, accounts of executions, and dying speeches, of the most notorious violators of the laws of their country; ... from the year 1700 to Lady-Day 1779. ... Embellished with a most elegant and superb set of copper plates, ...
Date: [1791?]- Books
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Hell upon earth: or the most pleasant and delectable history of Whittington's Colledge, otherwise (vulgarly) called Newgate : giving an account of the humours of those Collegians who are strictly examin'd at the Old-Baily, and take their highest degress near Hyde-Park Corner. Being very useful to all Persons, either Gentle or Simple, in shewing them the Manner of the Robberies and Cheats committed by Villains on the Nation; whereby they may be the more careful of being wrong'd by them for the Future.
Tuus inimicus.Date: Printed in the Year, 1703- Books
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An epistolary poem: supposed to be written by Lord William Russell, to Lord William Cavendish , from the prison of Newgate, On Friday night, the 20th of July, 1683, the evening before the execution of that virtuous and patriotic nobleman, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields; under the false pretext of his being concerned in the pretended Rye-House plot.
Canning, George, -1771.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Pictures
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Sarah Malcolm in Newgate Prison shortly before her execution. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: April 1st 1802Reference: 37847i- Pictures
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William Cox, burglar, in Newgate prison. Etching, ca. 1773.
Date: [1773?]Reference: 558914i- Pictures
Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in Newgate Prison, London, surrounded by women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.
Reference: 37722i- Books
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The three last letters, written by the late unhappy Mons. De Catte, Captain of the Infantry of the King of Prussia, from his prison at Kustrin, a few days before he was beheaded for concerting the journey to England with the Prince Royal of Prussia. Now done into English.
Katte, Johann Hermann von, -1734.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Pictures
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Newgate Prison, London: a man's shirt is being laid over his shoulders by a prison warder after he has been flogged by a man with a cat o'nine tails. Wood engraving, 1872.
Date: [1872]Reference: 37723i- Books
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The annals of Newgate; or, Malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors ... Calculated to expose the deformity of vice, the infamy and punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the paths of virtue ... / By the Rev. Mr. Villette.
Villette, John.Date: 1776- Books
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A list of those who are committed to Newgate, and other prisons, for high treason, and treasonable practices, against the King and government.
Date: [1714?]- Books
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An authentic list of persons (not only in the cities of London and Westminster, but also in the several counties in England and Scotland) who have surrendered themselves, in consequence of the late act, into the custody of the Marshal of the King's Bench prison, between the seventh of June, 1780, and the thirty-first of January, 1781.
Date: [1781]- Pictures
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A rioter in the Gordon Riots has a cudgel in his hand and Newgate Prison is on fire in the background. Etching attributed to J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: June 9th 1780Reference: 36239i- Books
Rough register. : Number. [blank] Prisoner's name. [blank].
Millbank Prison (London, England)Date: [1820 or 1821?]- Books
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The ordinary of Newgate's account of the behaviour, confession, & dying words of the five malefactors who were executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the 17th of June, 1747. being the second execution in the mayoralty of the Right Honble William Benn, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London.
Taylor, John, Ordinary of Newgate.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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Statistics of mortality among prisoners : being an inquiry into the death-rate of the government prisons of England, its causes, and the circumstances affecting it : with pathological observations.
Nicolson, David.Date: [1872]- Books
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The Newgate calendar; comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England since the commencement of the eighteenth century; with occasional anecdotes and observations, speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers / By Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin.
Knapp, Andrew.Date: 1824-- Books
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The ordinary of Newgate's account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words of the six malefactors who were executed at Tyburn on Monday the 20th of February, 1748-9. Namely, 1. William Jefferys, for rescuing James Holt a Smuggler. 2. John Frimley, for robbing on the High-Way. 3. Thomas Jones, for Forgery. 4. Usher Gahagan, 5. Terence Connor, 6. Joseph Mapham, for filing Guineas.
Taylor, John, Ordinary of Newgate.Date: M,DCC,XLIX. [1749]- Books
Appendix to the State of the prisons in England and Wales, etc. ... Contaning a farther account of foreign prisons and hospitals, with additional remarks on the prisons of this country / By John Howard.
Howard, John, 1726-1790.Date: 1780- Pictures
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Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a prisoner standing in a dock before the governor, in the presence of guards. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
Renouard, Paul, 1845-1924.Date: [1889]Reference: 37726i- Books
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On the mortality of London hospitals : and incidentally on the deaths in the prisons and public institutions of the metropolis / by William A. Guy.
Guy, William A. (William Augustus), 1810-1885.Date: [1867]- Books
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Howard Association report, October, 1884.
Howard Association (London, England)Date: 1884- Pictures
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Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a convict sitting in a bare room on a stool with some work in his hands. Process print after Paul Renouard.
Renouard, Paul, 1845-1924.Date: [1889]Reference: 37728i- Pictures
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Wormwood Scrubs prison, London: four cooks in prison uniform standing in a line in front of buckets and baskets. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
Renouard, Paul, 1845-1924.Date: [1889]Reference: 37857i- 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- Pictures
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Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London: a prisoner in the chain-room where manacles are stored: he is cleaning them. Process print after Paul Renouard.
Renouard, Paul, 1845-1924.Date: [1889]Reference: 37729i