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The life of Nicolas Mooney. Wherein is contained, his parentage and education; an Account of his joining the Rebel Army at Carlisle, and the Part he acted therein, 'till the Defeat thereof at Culloden-Moor; the Adventures he met with both before and after this, 'till he took to the Highway; with a brief account of his vicious life, 'till he committed the Robbery at Bristol, for which he was condemn'd to be executed there on Friday, April 24, 1752. Together with his Religious and Moral Reflections upon the most remarkable Passages of his whole Life; and an Account of his Conversion the Sunday before his Trial. Taken from his own mouth, by a friend; and publish'd at his Request.
Mooney, Nicolas, 1721-1752.Date: [1752?]- Books
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[Retsah] a cry against a crying sinne: or, A just complaint to the magistrates, against them who have broken the statute laws of God, by killing of men meerly for theft : Manifested in a petition long since presented to the Common Councel of the City of London, on the behalfe of transgressours. Together with certaine proposals, presented by Col. Pride to the Right Honourable the generall Counsell for the Army, and the Committee appointed by the Parliament of England, to consider of the inconveniences, mischiefes, chargeablenesse, and irregularities in their law.
Chidley, SamuelDate: 1652- Books
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A true narrative of the proceedings at the sessions holden for London and Middlesex, at Justice-hall in the Old-bayly, the 10th and 11th days of May, 1676 : Setting forth the tryal and condemnation of the man for having several wives, and the woman for having several husbands: and other most material passages. And also an account of the tryal of the woman who was arraigned as being accessary to the sacrilegious robbery of St. Giles's-Church: with the tryal of the man for buying the plate of her. And likewise how many are condemn'd, how many burn'd in the hand, and transported. These are to satisfie all people, that the book of the sessions with the name of John Millet, was the tryals four sessions ago. With permission, Ro. L'Estrange.
Date: [1676]- Books
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A collection of tracts, relating to the crimes, examination, trial, sentence, and execution, of Susannah Lott and Benjamin Buss, for poisoning Mr. Lott, late of Hythe, in the county of Kent.
Date: 1769- Books
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The speech of the queene of sluts : At her execntion [sic] at Tyburne, on Wednesday February 25. 1662, with a true relation of eleven more that were executed the same time.
Date: printed in the year 1663- Books
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The last dying words and confession of John Donnellan, Esq; who was executed at Warwick, on Monday the 2d. of April, 1781.
Donellan, John, -1781.Date: 1781]- Books
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The life of Nicolas Mooney. Wherein is contained, his parentage and education; an Account of his joining the Rebel Army at Carlisle, and the Part he acted therein, 'till the Defeat thereof at Culloden-Moor; the Adventures he met with both before and after this, 'till he took to the Highway; with a brief account of his vicious life, 'till he committed the Robbery at Bristol, for which he was executed on St. Michael's Hill on Friday, April 24, 1752. Together with his Religious and Moral Reflections upon the most remarkable Passages of his whole Life; and an Account of his Conversion the Sunday before his Trial. Taken from his own mouth by a friend; and publish'd at his Request.
Mooney, Nicolas, 1721-1752.Date: [1752]- 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 trials at large of the felons, in the Castle of York, before the Hon. Sir Henry Gould, Knight, One of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, Serjeant Aspinal, and Others their Associates, Justices, &c. Sir George Armytage, Bart. High-Sheriff. Taken down in short-hand in the court by W. Williamson, Teacher of that Art, and published agreeable to the order of the justices.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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A full and true account of the proceedings at the sessions of oyer and terminer, holden for the city of London, county of Middlesex, and goal-delivery of Newgate; which began at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly, on Thursday, Iune 1st. and ended on Fryday, Iune 2d. 1682 : Wherein is contained the tryal of many notorious malefactors, for murders, fellonies, burglary, and other misdemeanours, but more especially the tryal of Jane Kent for witch-craft. Together, with the names of those that received sentence of death, the number of those burn'd in the hand, transported, and vvhip'd. As likewise some proceedings in relation to the persons that violently took the lady out of the coach on Hounslow-Heath.
Date: 1682]- Books
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Proposals for redressing some grievances which greatly affect the whole nation. With a seasonable warning to Our Beautiful Young Ladies against Fortune-Hunters; and a Remedy proposed in favour of the Ladies.
Date: M.DCC.XL. [1740]- Books
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To His Highness the Lord Protector, and the Parliament of England, &c.
Chidley, SamuelDate: [1657]- Books
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The most cruell and bloody murther committed by an Inkeepers wife, called Annis Dell, and her sonne George Dell, foure yeeres since : On the bodie of a childe, called Anthony Iames in Bishops Hatfield in the countie of Hartford, and now most miraculously reuealed by the sister of the said Anthony, who at the time of the murther had her tongue cut out, and foure yeeres remayned dumme and speechlesse, and now perfectly speaketh, reuealing the murther, hauing no tongue to be seen. With the seuerall vvitch-crafts, and most damnable practises of one Iohane Harrison and her daughter vpon seuerall persons, men and women at Royston, who were all executed at Hartford the 4 of August last past. 1606.
Date: 1606- Books
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Circulated by the East-Kent and Canterbury Association. Printed by order of "the society for preserving liberty and property against republicans and levellers," held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand. Mr. Justice Ashhurst's charge to the grand jury for the county of Middlesex. The following charge delivered by Judge Ashhurst to the grand jury for the county of Middlesex, assembled in the Court of King's Bench, on Monday the 9th of November, 1792, breathes so much the spirit of the English law, and is so well suited to curb and licentious, spirit of the times, that it must be read with heart-selt satisfaction by every true Englishman-to whose perusal it is strongly recommended.
Ashhurst, William Henry, Sir, 1725-1807.Date: 1793]