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The general London guide; or, tradesman's directory for the year 1794. With a general index to trades. Containing a separate arrangement of all the merchants, manufactures, and principal traders In The Cities Of AtLondon, Wesminster, And Borough Of AtSouthwark. Also a complete list of the market towns in Great Britain; their Distances from London; the Market Days-The Stage Coaches, Post, Waggons, and other Carriages; the Hours of setting-out; their Postage and Fares to Town; with the principal Inns they put up at, &c. &c. A complete list of all the magistrates and police officers in London, &c.; the Fees to be taken by each Clerk as regulated; with the Name and Place of Abode of each Magistrate, &c. &c. A short sketch of the political geography of Europe, with the Number of Inhabitants, Miles, Acres, and Distances to each Place; and an exact Account of the Commodities sent to, and taken from them. A correct tide table, shewing the true Time of High Water at London-Bridge, and all the Ports in Great-Britain, every Day in the Year 1794.
Boyle, P. (Patrick), -1808?.Date: [1793?]- Pictures
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Tom Delolme, a medical student, gives evidence as a witness in Bow Street magistrates' court, London: the magistrate and his clerk are seated on the left. Etching after G. Cruikshank, 1844.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1844]Reference: 31647i- Books
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The new political state of Great Britain. Including the public affairs of foreign courts. Compiled by J. Morgan. Vol. 1. Containing, January, February, March, April, May, June. In these Six Numbers are divers curious and genuine Pieces, not to be met with elsewhere. To which is annexed, an appendix: with notable memoirs of the Lives, Characters, Writings, &c. of several Persons of Note and Figure, chiefly in the Republic of Literature. With a compleat table of contents to the whole.
Morgan, J., active 1739.Date: [1730]- Pictures
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Sir John Fielding wearing a blindfold sits in a chair holding instruments of justice before Madam Cornelys on the shoulders of a lawyer and the Duchess of Northumberland. Engraving, 1771.
Date: [April 1 1771]Reference: 583875i- Books
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Resolutions of the magistrates deputed from the several counties in England and Wales, assembled at the St. Alban's Tavern, by desire of the Society for giving effect to His Majesty's proclamation against vice and immorality, on the 5th, 11th, 14th, and 17th May, 1790.
Society for Giving Effect to His Majesty's Proclamation against Vice and Immorality.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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A full, complete, and correct account of the horrid murder of the poor Italian boy Carlo Ferriar, as detailed in the examinations at Bow-Street police office, the coroner's inquest, and at the trial of Bishop, May, and Williams, on Friday, Dec. 2, 1831 : Including, every circumstance connected with this horrible burking transaction, the conviction of the murderers, their behaviour during the trial and sentence; the conduct of the prisoners, and confession and execution of Bishop and Williams.
Bishop, John, -1831Date: [1831?]- Books
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A new edition. Being a more minute and particular account of that consummate adept in deception, Charles Price, otherwise Patch, Many Years A Stock-Broker And Lottery-Office-Keeper In London and Westminster: In this Edition the whole of his various Forgeries and Frauds are circumstantially related; together with his Origin, and all the material Occurrences of his Life, equally disgraceful to human Nature, till he began that desperate Undertaking of Forgeries on the Bank of England. In the carrying on of which, he, in the most artful and surprising Manner, baffled every Mode of Detection, set on foot by the Directors and the Magistrates of Bow-Street, for a Series of Six Years. With this Edition is given, as a Frontispiece, an exact Representation of his Person, in the Disguise he wore when he negotiated his first Parcel of Counterseit Bank Notes, in the Year 1780, and likewise another Portrait of him in his usual Dress.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]