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Crime - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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Select trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for murder, robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences. To which are added, genuine accounts of the lives, behaviour, confessions and dying speeches of the most eminent convicts. In Four Volumes. From the year 1720, to this time. ... . From December 1720, to October 1723. Amongst a great many other remarkable Trials are, For Murder. James Hall, Sarah Malcomb, T. Billings, T. Wood, and Catherine Hayes, Capt. John Jayne, Richard Savage, James Clough, Lewis Houssart, Major J. Oneby, Burnworth, Blewit, and their Gang, T. Athoe, and his Son, &c. &c. &c. For the Highway. W. Gorden, W. Wreathock, and his Gang, T. Carr, and E. Adams, Mary Young alias Jenny Diver, James Dalton, &c. &c. &c. For Forgery. Richard Brabant, Parson Kinnersley, and W. Hales, &c. &c. &c. For Rapes and Attempts to Ravish. Arthur Gray, Samuel Street, Col. Charteris, William West, &c. &c. &c. For receiving stolen Goods. J. Barthelmi, Jonathan Wild, &c. &c. &c. For Burglary. John Sheppard, Edgworth Bess, &c. &c. &c. For Sodomy and Sodomitical Practices. Margaret Clap, Charles Hitchin, &c. &c. &c.
Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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Additions to reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench; In the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first years of the reign of George III. By Sylvester Douglas, Esq.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Proceedings of the Governor and Council at Bengal, during Colonel Caillaud's absence, in consequence of the orders received from the Court of Directors under date the 7th of October 1761, and received at Calcutta in the beginning of the month of May 1762.
Bengal. Governor and Council.Date: 1763]- Books
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The discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter, who was apprehended for robbing Dr. Hancock, of Salisbury, on Clarken-Down, near Bath; and thereupon discovered a most numerous gang of villains, many of which have been already taken. Being a full account of all the robberies he has committed, and the surprising tricks and frauds he has practised for the space of five years last past, in different parts of England. Written wholly by himself. To which he has added, for the service of the public, to make all the amends in his power for his past offences, directions to secure houses from being broke open. How to prevent horses being stolen out of grounds, commons, or elsewhere. useful cautions to tradesmen and others who travel the roads, to prevent their being robbed. And to prevent any unwary persons from being imposed upon and defrauded, an exact account of the manner in which gamblers and other sharpers impose upon people at fairs, &c. The arts the horse-dealers make use of to draw in people to buy or exchange their horses; and the various other cheats practised at fairs, as giving notes for goods, pricking at the belt, exchanging saddles and great coats at inns, &c. In what manner shopkeepers are cheated by shoplifters: with every other trick and species of villainy made use of by rogues and sharpers, laid upon in so plain a manner, and their behaviour and language so fully described, that every one who reads the book, may certainly know them at any time and so be upon their guard against being cheated by time.
Poulter, John, 1715-1754?.Date: 1774- Books
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A compleat narrative of all the prisoners, who were try'd, cast, and condemned, at the Sessions-House, in the Old Bailey, containing the whole remarkable trials, of Brent Coleman, Richard Edwards, John Roberts, and Michael Jacobs, and many other notorious malefactors.
Date: 1740?]