A compleat collection of remarkable tryals of the most notorious malefactors, at the sessions-house in the Old Baily, for near fifty years past; For the Crimes following, viz. Murthers, Highway-Robbing, Pyracy, House-Breaking, Foot-Padding, Rapes, Sodomy, Bestiality, Polygamy, Fortune-Stealing, Trepanning, Kidnapping, Shop-Lifting, Pertury, Counterfeiting the Coin, Exchequer-Bills, Bank-Notes, Stamps, &c. Together with A particular Account of their Behaviour under Sentence of Death, and Dying-Speeches. Faithfully Collected from the Books of Trvals, and Papers of Mr. Smith, Mr. Allen, Mr. Wikes, and Mr. Lorrain, Ordinaries of Newgate, from the first Printing of them, down to this present Time: And from other Authentick Narratives. ...

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[1718]-21