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A group of children are stealing food from a picnic they have found under a tree. Wood engraving by Dalziel after M. ten Kate.
Kate, Johan Mari Henri ten, 1831-1910.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 29206i- Books
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The last advice of James Inglis, who is to be hang'd the first of May for horse-stealing, to his brethren of trade.
Inglis, James, -1728.Date: 1728]- Pictures
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A woman stealing some sugar by emptying it into her pocket is discovered by a manservant of the household. Wood engraving by Swain & Co..
Reference: 31998i- Pictures
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Nocturnal scene with a polecat stealing eggs from a duck's nest in the reeds while the duck is fluttering its wings above. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.Reference: 39586i- Books
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A Disswasive from stealing. A sermon preached at Holton in Suffolk. Inscribed to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. By Stephen White, M.A. Rector of Holton.
White, Stephen, 1696 or 1697-Date: M.DCC.XLV. [1745]- Archives and manuscripts
M0009331EA: Man being punished for stealing fruit, stone carving at Wells Cathedral, Somerset. / M0009331EB: Extracting a thorn from the foot, Wells Cathedral, Somerset.
Date: 01 November 1945- Pictures
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The boy St Giles, arrested for stealing a hat belonging to the boy St James, is arraigned before the night-constable at Covent Garden watch-house. Etching after John Leech, 1845.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: [1845]Reference: 35899i- Pictures
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Two huntsmen in a clearing are surrounded by gypsies who read their palms as a decoy for stealing their belongings. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after B. North.
North, Brownlow, 1778-1829.Date: 20 November 1804Reference: 577916i- Books
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Captain Johnston's last farewell: who was arraing'd [sic] for being assisting in stealing a young heiress, for which he was executed at Tyburn, the 23d December, 1696.
Date: 1776]- 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 last speech, and voluntary confession of James Dunn, who was executed on the sands of Carlisle, on Saturday the 1st day of September, 1792, for the crime of horse-stealing.
Dunn, James, -1792.Date: 1792]- Books
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The behaviour, confession, &c. of William Welford, who was executed at Northampton, April 25, 1740, for breaking open the house of William Green of Rothwell, and stealing from thence a piece of tammy.
Welford, William, -1740.Date: 1740]- Books
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The last speech and dying words of John Magee who was executed near St. Stephens Green this 18th, day of February 1718-19 for stealing a bay gelding from Mr. Robinet the attorney.
Magee, John, -1719.Date: 1719]- Books
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The trial of Thomas Fox, Robert Collins and Charles Frost, at Gloucester Assizes, March 29th, 1788. For breaking open the house of John Webb, Esq; near Bristol, and stealing a large quantity of plate.
Fox, Thomas, active 1788.Date: 1788- Books
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The priest's complaint: being a discourse of the heinous sin of tithe-stealing: and the evil consequences attending thereupon. By Robert Wake, M. A. Vicar of Fritwell in Oxfordshire, and sometime Fellow of Trinity-College, Oxon.
Wake, Robert, active 1683-1725.Date: MDCCIII. [1703]- Books
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The British tribunal: for 1789. Containing the most remarkable trials for street and highway robberies, murder, Private Stealing, Libels, Forgery, Rapes, Adultery, &c. &c. From the notes of a student, who attends the different judicial courts.
Date: [1790]- Books
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An Act to explain an Act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act to render the laws more effectual for preventing the stealing and destroying of sheep and other cattle.
Great Britain.Date: 1742]- Pictures
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One boy is caught by an irate farmer while stealing his apples from the orchard and another has the seat of his trousers ripped by a dog as he tries to escape over the fence. Colour wood engraving.
Date: 1880Reference: 27508i- Books
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Whereas the Incorporation of Goldsmiths raised a prosecution at the instance of the Procurator-Fiscal, against several journeymen and apprentices of said trade, for stealing and embezzling the silver and materials of their masters, viz. George Ochiltree, ...
Incorporation of Goldsmiths (Edinburgh, Scotland)Date: 1764]- Books
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Anno vicesimo nono Georgii II. Regis. An act for more effectually discouraging and preventing the stealing, and the buying, and receiving of stolen lead, iron, copper, brass, bell-metal, and solder, and for more effectually bringing the offenders to justice.
Great Britain.Date: 1756]- Pictures
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A man with his gouty leg on a stool, a maid accidently pours boiling water over him and a small boy is stealing from his wallet, perhaps further punishment for his overindulgence. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1775, after E. Penny.
Penny, Edward, 1714-1791.Date: [22 March 1775]Reference: 23959i- Books
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A discourse shewing the duty of honouring the Lord with our substance, together with the Impiety of Tithe Stealing. By John Newte, M. A. Rector of Tiverton in Devon, and one of the Proctors in Convocation for the Diocess of Exeter.
Newte, John, 1655?-1716.Date: MDCCXI. [1711]- Books
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Trial of Jane Leigh Perrot, at Taunton Assizes, on Saturday the 29th of March, 1800; charged with stealing a card of lace, in the shop of Elizabeth Gregory, Haberdasher & Milliner, of the City of Bath, as taken in Short Hand.
Leigh Perrot, Jane Cholmeley, 1746-1836.Date: [1800?]- Books
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It is humbly conceiv'd, it will tend very much to the benefit of the publick, if a clause to the effect following may be added to the bill, for more effectual preventing the stealing and unlawful killing of cattle, viz. ...
Date: 1716]- Books
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The last speech, confession, and dying words of Robert Thompson, who was executed on the sands at Carlisle, on Saturday the 17th day of September, 1791, for stealing a mare, the property of John Turner of Earsdon, in the county of Northumberland.
Thompson, Robert, 1737?-1791.Date: 1791]