An account of the life and transactions of William Gadesby, from the age of seventeen to twenty-eight when he was brought to trial before the High Court of Justiciary, and received sentence of death, on Tuesday, the 21st of December, 1790. Written by himself, when in prison. To which is added, an appendix, concerning his confession of having robbed the Dundee bank. The whole containing a narrative of the most extraordinary and unexampled depravity of conduct perhaps ever exhibited to the world.

  • Gadesby, William, 1762 or 1763-1791.
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MDCCXCI. [1791]
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Edinburgh : printed for William Creech, and sold by Dunlop and Wilson, Glasgow; R. Nicol, Dundee; Angus and Son, and A. Brown, Aberdeen, MDCCXCI. [1791]

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[2],v,[1],57,[1]p. ; 80.

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ESTC T74519

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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.

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