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A True and perfect account of the examination, confession, trial, condemnation and execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John and Richard Perry, for the supposed murder of Will. Harrison, gent. Being one of the most remarkable occurrences which hath happened in the memory of man. Sent in a letter (by Sir Thomas Overbury, of Burton, in the county of Gloucester, Knt. and one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace) to Thomas Shirly, doctor of physick, in London. Also Mr. Harrison's own account how he was conveyed to Turkey, and there made a slave above two years, when his master (who bought him there) dying, he returned to England; being, in the mean while, supposed to be murdered by his man-servant, who falsely accused his own mother and brother as guilty of the same, and were all three executed for it on Broadway-Hills, in Gloucestershire.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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The last dying speech and confession of Charles Squire, who was executed at Stafford, on Monday the 29th day of April, 1799, for the murder of Joseph Green, his apprentice.
Squire, Charles, -1799.Date: 1799]- Books
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A supplement to the London Journal, of February 2. 1722-23. Being a large and impartial abstract of the tryal of Christopher Layer, Esq; with an introduction, by Britannicus.
Layer, Christopher, 1683-1723.Date: [1723]- Books
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Genuine letters that pass'd between Miss Blandy and Miss Jeffries, before and after conviction.
Blandy, Mary, 1720-1752.Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- Books
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The whole tryal, life and conversation [sic] birth, parentage, and education, of the Lady Aberganey, who was burnt at East Grinsted in Sussex, on Tuesday last, for murdering her son, by roasting him, ... Together with her last speech and dying words, wherein she has confessed how she was the principle [sic] cause of her husbands [sic] death, ...
Stannup, James.Date: 1712- Books
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Trial of Capt. Edward Clark, commander of His Majesty's ship the Canterbury, for the murder of Capt.Tho. Innes, commander of His Majesty's ship the Warwick; in a duel in Hyde-Park, March 12, 1749. At Justice-Hall in the Old Bailey; on Thursday the 26th of April 1750. Being the fourth sessions in the mayoralty of the Rt. Hon. Sir Samuel Pennant, knt. lord-mayor of the city of London.
Clark, Edward, -1779.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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Genuine memoirs of the lives of George and Joseph Weston, who were executed September 3, 1782. The first for forgery; the latter for shooting at John Davis, and wounding him in Cock-Lane: including a particular account of all their adventures, exploits, manoeuvres, forgeries, travels, amours; and intrigues of different kinds. From their infancy to the present time. With a curious and authentic description of the manner of their being taken, very different from what has hitherto been represented. To which is now added, An account of their escaping from Newgate on the second of July, 1782, and the manner of their being re-taken. With their trials at the Old-Bailey, on Saturday, July 6.
Weston, George, 1753-1782.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The trial at large, Behaviour, and Dying Declaration, of Mary Edmondson, Who was Try'd and Convicted at the Assizes held at Kingston upon Thames, in Surry, on Saturday, the Thirty-First Day of March, 1759. For the Murder of Mrs. Susanna Walker, Widow, her Aunt, At Rotherhith, on the 23d Day of February last. With an Authentic and Genuine Narrative Of that unfortunate young Woman, from her Commitment to the New Goal in Southwark, to her Execution at Kennington-Common, on Monday, the Second Day of April, 1759. And Copies of some Papers that she delivered at the Stockhouse Prison at Kingston just before she set out for the Place of Execution.
Edmondson, Mary, 1733-1759.Date: [1759]- Books
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The Female parricide. Being a circumstantial relation of the cruel poisoning of Francis Blandy, Gent. late town clerk of Henley upon Themes, in the county of Oxford, by his only daughters. Mary Blandy as it was prov'd against her at the after at hold at Oxford, on Tuesday, March 3, 1752, where he was found guilty of the some, and received sentence of death; and executed at Oxford, on Monday the 6th of April following. To which are added, a letter from a clergyman to Miss Blandy, after receiving sentence of death, and her answer thereto; as also an account of her behaviour at the place of execution. Likewise a relation of the death of Capt. Cranston, the principal congriver of this murder, at furnes, near Dunkirk, in Flanders. Adorned with cuts.
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The genuine life, trial, and dying words of Eugene Aram, who was convicted the 3d of August, at York Assizes, and executed the 6th, for the murder of Daniel Clarke, of Knaresborough, which he committed in the year 1744-5. Containing, I. Some remarkable circumstances which attended this unhappy man's life. II. The strange and wonderful manner by which this murder was first discover'd III. His ingenious defence on his trial, greatly admired by all present. IV. His behaviour while under confinement and after receiving sentence of death. V. His attempting to bleed to death, by cutting his arm with a razor the night before he suffer'd. VI. His behaviour and last dying words at the place, of execution. With the copy of a letter he deliver'd at the place of execution.
Aram, Eugene, 1704-1759.Date: [1759?]- Books
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The cruel mistress; being, the genuine trial of Elizabeth Branch, and her own daughter; for the murder of Jane Buttersworth, their servant maid: who were executed on Saturday, May 3. 1740. at Ivelchester in the Country of Somerset. Together with an account of their lives, and the many Cruelties they were guilty of, particularly that of making their own Servant Boy eat his own Excrement. Their Behaviour whilst under Sentence of Death, and their Last Dying Speeches, made at the Place of Execution.
Date: 1740- Books
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The case of Diana Loxton, widow of Samuel Loxton, most barbarously murdered by Lieutenant Bird, now under sentence of death, for that fact.
Loxton, Diana.Date: Printed in the Year 1718- Books
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(Express from Castlebar.) the genuine trial of G.R. Fitzgerald, Esq; On a charge of murder, committed on the bodies of Patrick Randal M'Donnell and Charles Hipson, Esqrs. on the 21st day of February, 1786. Tried at the adjourned Assize held at Castleear, on Wednesday the 7th of June 1786. Before the Right Hon. Barry Yelverton, chief baron of His Majesty's, Court of Exchequer, and the Hon. Baron Power. In this trial is given the whole of the proceedings thereon, and pleadings of counsel, from his first being brought up to trial at the last Assizes at Castlebar, to his conviction on Friday Night the 9th inst. To which is added an account of his behaviour at the place of execution. Taken in short-hand by a Gentleman profession.
Fitzgerald, George Robert, 1746-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The prisoner's friend; or letters to the condemned. By the Rev. James Edwards. To which is added a copy of a letter, from a physician in London, to the late Dr Dodd, when he was under sentence of death.
Edwards, James, active 1799.Date: [1799?]- Books
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The ordinary of Newgate's account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words of Capt. Joseph Halsey, who was executed at Execution-Dock, on Wednesday the fourteenth of March, 1759, for the murder of Daniel Davidson.
Roe, Stephen, active 1756.Date: M.DCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The genuine account of the life and trial of Eugene Aram, for the murder of Daniel Clark, late of Knarrsbrough in the county of York. Who was convicted at York Assizes, August 3, 1759, be before the Hon. William Noel, Esq. After a short narration of the fact, is prefixed, an account of the remarkable discovery of the human skeleton at Thistle-Hill: a detail of all the judicial proceedings from the time of the bones being found, to the commitment of Richard Houseman, Eugene Aram, and Henry Terry to York Castle: The deposition of Anna Aram, Philip Coates, John Yeates, &c. The examination and confession of Richard Houseman; the apprehending of Eugeue Aram, at Lynn, in Norfolk: with his examination and commitment. To which are added, the remarkable defence he made on his tryal: his own account of himself, written after his condemnation with the apology, which he left in his cell, for the attempt the made on his own life; and his plan for a Lexicon, some pieces of poetry, &c. All taken immediately from the original depositions, papers and manuscripts of Eugene Arm. To this edition is further added, the surprizing story of Jaques du Moulin.
Aram, Eugene, 1704-1759.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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The tryal of Mrs. Branch, and her daughter, for the murder of Jane Buttersworth, before the Hon. Mr. Justice Chapple, at Somerset assizes, March 31, 1740. With a Preface, Containing an exact Account, taken from the Persons who saw the Lights in Hemington Church-Yard, the Night before the Corpse was taken up, and the true Motives for taking up the Corpse. To which are added, true copies of some very material informations, taken before Joseph Houlton, and Robert Smith, Esqrs. Justices of the Peace. With a just account of the prisoners behaviour at their trial; at and after Sentence; and at the place of execution.
Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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The true copy of the original paper signed by Mr. Richard Noble, Which he designed for his last speech, deliver'd To Mr. Cooke Curate of Kingston and Ordinary of Surry; Another to Mr. Broughton Vicar of Kingston; and a Third to the Reverend Mr. L'Herondel: with a particular Account of his Behaviour some Days before his Execution, by all the aforesaid Clergy-Men.
Noble, Richard, 1684-1713.Date: [1713]- Books
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The trials of all the felon prisoners, tried, cast, and condemned at Justice Hall, in the Old Baily. With the remarkable trial of John Vent for the murder of John Goff. Price One Penny,
Vent, John.Date: [1799?]- Books
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The trial of William Meyer, Esq; and Mary his wife, at the City of York, before Edward Willes, Esquire, On Tuesday, March 20, 1781, for the wilful murder of Joseph Spinke, on Wednesday, October 18, 1780.
Meyer, William, -1781.Date: [1781]- Books
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The trial of Jane Butterfield for the wilful murder of William Scawen, Esq; at the assizes held at Croydon for the county of Surry on Saturday the 19th of August, 1775, before the Right Honourable Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, Knt. Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer. Published by Permission of the Judge. Taken in Short-Hand, By Joseph Gurney and William Blanchard.
Butterfield, Jane.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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The full tryal, proceedings, and condemnation of Christopher Slaughterford, upon an appeal for the murder of Mrs Jane Young his sweethart, at Gullford in Surry; at thd [sic] Queen's-Bench-Bar at Westminster, on Saturday June the 25th 1709. Before the Lord Cheif Justice Holt, &c.
Slaughterford, Christopher, -1709.Date: 1709- Books
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The case of Mr. Richard Noble impartially consider'd: Abstractly from the Man, or Crime, but Meerly as to the Law, in relation to the Motion by him made, on Monday the Sixteenth Day of March, 1712, at Kingston Assizes, in Arrest of Judgment: And the Reason given for Over-Ruling the same Contined. By a Student of the Inner-Temple.
Student of the Inner-Temple.Date: [1713]- Books
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A full and faithful account of the intrigue between Mr Noble and Mrs Sayer. Their ill usage of Mr. Sayer, and his family, with some further events preceding and subsequent to Noble's conviction. His Behaviour in the Marshalsea and at Kingston: His Confession at large to a Minister of the Gospel: The Circumstances attending the Writing his Paper: His Letter to Dr. Bray about a Reprieve, and Dr. Bray's to him. With other Original Papers and Letters. Carefully collected and revis'd by persons well acquainted with the prosecution.
Date: [1713]