Crime and criminals - Great Britain
Works from the collections
17 works
- E-books
- Online
The annals of Newgate or, malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors, who have suffered an ignominious Death for their Offences, viz. for Parricide, Murder, Treason, Robbery, Burglary, Piracy, Coining, Forgery, and Rapes: From the Commitment of the celebrated John Sheppard, to the Acquittal of the equally celebrated Margaret Caroline Rudd. Including a Period of fifty Years and upwards, both in Town and Country. Calculated To expose the Desormity of Vice, the Infamy and Punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the Paths of Virtue; and intended as a Beacon to warn the rising Generation against the Temptations, the Allurements, and the Dangers of bad Company. The former Part extracted from Records; and the Histories and Transactions of the modern Convicts, communicated by the unhappy Sufferers themselves, since the Author has been appointed to his present Office. By the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others.
Villette, John d. 1799.Date: 1776- E-books
- Online
Select trials, for murders , robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, frauds, and other offences. At the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey. To which are Added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confessions, and Dying-Speeches, of the most eminent Convicts.
Date: 1742- E-books
- Online
An address to the public; occasioned by the Lord Bishop of London's letter to the clergy and people of London and Westminster
Date: 1750- E-books
- Online
The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years . With their several characters from the best historians, as Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c. and A Table shewing how the respective Sentences were Executed, and which of them were Mitigated, or Pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the state-tryals.
Date: 1730- E-books
- Online
Select trials for murders , robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, Frauds, And other Offences: at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey. To which are added, genuine accounts of the lives, behaviour, confessions and dying-speeches of the most eminent convicts. ... . From the Year 1720, to 1724, inclusive.
Date: 1734