A full and impartial account of all the robberies committed by John Hawkins, George Sympson, (lately Executed for Robbing the Bristol Mails) and their companions. Particularly the Robbing of General Evans on Putney-Common, where his Man was killed; the Robbing the Bristol, Worcester, Oxford, Bath, Gloucester, Ipswich, Bury, &c. Stage-Coaches; as also, the Earl of Burlington and Lord Bruce: With the Case of Butler Fox, who was Executed for Robbing Colonel Archibald Hamilton; and the Robberies of the Earl of Westmoreland, and others, in the Streets in and about London; and Remarks on the Tryal of the above Persons. With an Account of Hawkins's defacing several Pictures in the Bodleian Library at Oxford: With a proposed Project of Robbing the Harwich Mall. Written by Ralph Wilson, late one of their confederates.
- Wilson, Ralph, highwayman.
- Date:
- [1722?]
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London : printed for J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Paternoster-Row, [1722?]
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[2],29,[1]p. ; 80.
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The fourth edition.
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ESTC T68701
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.