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The Newgate calendar improved : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters who have been convicted of offences against the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, and continued to the present time, chronologically arranged, comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries, ravishers, pirates, mutineers, coiners, highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers, rioters, extortioners, sharpers, forgers, pickpockets, fraudulent bankrupts, money droppers, impostors, and rogues of every description : and containing a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional remarks on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, moral reflections and observations on particular cases, explanations of the criminal laws, the speeches, confessions and last exclamations of sufferers : to which is added a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world
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The Newgate calendar improved : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters who have been convicted of offences against the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, and continued to the present time, chronologically arranged, comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries, ravishers, pirates, mutineers, coiners, highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers, rioters, extortioners, sharpers, forgers, pickpockets, fraudulent bankrupts, money droppers, impostors, and rogues of every description : and containing a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional remarks on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, moral reflections and observations on particular cases, explanations of the criminal laws, the speeches, confessions and last exclamations of sufferers : to which is added a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world / by George Theodore Wilkinson.
Physical Description
1 online resource (6 volumes) : illustrations, portraits.
Notes
A revision of: The Newgate calendar / by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin.
Includes index.
Description based on PDF title page, viewed July 23, 2015.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
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January 25, 2019
Series
HeinOnline world trials.
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Electronic books.
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