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The young and thoughtless criminal. Being a true and most affecting history of that unfortunate convict, Hannah Bromley, alais [sic] Griffiths, being only nineteen years of age. Who was executed on Wednesday the 17th of January 1798, upon Kennington Common, for being concerned in robbing Mr Bishop's House of a large quantity of Tea, wearing Apparel, &c. and attempting to set fire to the Premises. Containing an account of her bein seduced by an artful young man, who lived in the Neighbourhood: by whose persuasions she committed the Crime for which she was Executed. Also, the pathetic letter which she sent her sweetheart, the night before her execution; and Concluding with Mournful Copy of Verses.
Date: 1798- Books
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To the people of England. Whoever has been the least conversant, either in facred or prophane history, can be at no loss for instances, wherein private blood, unjustly spilt, has been exacted at the hands of a whole people; and that general calamities have been the consequence of particular injustice. ...
Triton.Date: 1757]- Books
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A letter to Messrs. Fletcher and Peach, of the City of London; on their negotiation with Dr. Dodd; which has unhappily deprived society of a valuable member, and a useful minister of the Gospel.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The last speech, confession, and dying words of James Haddan, who was executed at Ayr, upon Friday, the 5th day of December, 1766. For the crime of house-breaking.
Haddan, James, 1741 or 1742-1766.Date: 1766]- Books
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The ungodly condemned in judgment. A sermon preached at Springfield, December 13th 1770. On occasion of the execution of William Shaw, for murder. By Moses Baldwin, A.M. Pastor of the church in Palmer.
Baldwin, Moses, 1732-1813.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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Sadducimus debellatus: or, a true narrative of the sorceries and witchcrafts exercis'd by the devil and his instruments : upon Mrs. Christian Shaw, daughter of Mr. John Shaw, of Bargarran in the County of Renfrew in the West of Scotland, from Aug. 1696 to Apr. 1697. Containing the journal of her sufferings, as it was exhibited and prov'd by the voluntary confession of some of the witches, and other unexceptionable evidence, before the Commissioners appointed by the Privy Council of Scotland to enquire into the same. Collected from the records. Together with reflexions upon witchcraft in general, and the learned arguments of the lawyers, on both sides, at the trial of seven of those witches who were condemned: and some passages which happened at their execution.
Cullen, Francis Grant, Lord, 1658-1726Date: 1698- Books
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An account of the digging up of the quarters of William Stayley, lately executed for high treason, for that his relations abused the Kings mercy : Nov. 30 1678. Imprimatur, William Scroggs.
Date: 1678- Books
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Execution of the King of France now exhibiting at No. 28, Hay-market. La Guillotine; or The beheading machine, from Paris, by which the late King of France suffered. And an exact representation of the execution.
Twiss, Richard, 1747-1821.Date: 1793]- Books
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An Account of the behaviour, and conduct, of Simon Lord Fraser, of Lovat, containing some particular memoirs of his life; likewise his trial at Westminster; his behaviour during his confinement in the Tower, and on the day of his execution. Also an extract of the letters which he sent to his son and the young pretender, &c. &c.
Date: 1747]- Books
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An Account of the inhuman murder of Louis XVI.
Date: 1793]- Books
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The last speeches, dying words, and confessions of James Chambers and William Collins, who were executed on the Town-Moor, near Newcastle upon Tyne, on Friday the 27th of August, 1784, for robbing Mr Jasper Anderson, on the Highway.
Chambers, James, -1784.Date: 1784]- Books
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A solemn warning: or, some account of the behaviour of B----- S------ll, Esq; while under sentence of death. By the Revd. Dr. B-tt.
Brett, John, Rector of Moynalty.Date: 1756]- Books
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The indictment, arraignment, tryal, and judgment, at large, of twenty-nine regicides, the murtherers of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles the Ist, of glorius memory: begun at Hicks's-Hall on Tuesday the ninth of October, 1660. and continued at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey until Friday the nineteenth of the same month. Together with a summary of the dark and horrid decrees of those cabbalists, preparatory to that hellish fact. Expos'd to view for the reader's satisfaction, and information of posterity. To which is added, their speeches. With a preface, giving an account of the rise and progress of enthusiasm among us, and in other parts of Europe: with the characters, and answer to the tenets of the several persons executed.
Date: 1730