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An account of the life and transactions of James Plunket, who was executed at Glasgow eleventh of January, 1792, for street robbery. Written by himself while under sentence of death. To which is added an appendix, containing various anecdotes concerning him, which he had not time to commit to writing, but desired a gentleman who visited him to publish
Author
Plunket, James, d. 1792
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Glasgow : Printed for Robert Duncan. Sold by most of the booksellers in Scotland, Anno 1792.
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To the inhabitants of Greenwich & Blackheath. Whereas from a late regulation of the police of Westminster, &c. many idle and disorderly persons are driven into the adjacent villages and have committted divers felonies; a proposal, is therefore offered to the inhabitants to form an association to check robberies, and enter into the a subscription to defray the necessary expences, which mode has been adopted in most of the neighbouring parishers. By a concerted plan; immediate pursuit; liberal rewards on commitment; and defraying the expence of profecutions. ..
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[Greenwich? : s.n., 1792]
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The merchant's son; and The beggar-wench of Hull
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[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, London, [between 1754 and 1783?]
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LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> Folio 74 Ol1 v. 2
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An account of the life and adventures of the celebrated William Page, executed at Pennenden Heath, on Thursday, April 6, 1758, for a highway robbery, committed upon the late Captain Farrington, of chistleburst, &c. Being the substance of his anecdotes wrote by himself, during his confinement; and transmitted to a relation of his at York
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Page, William, 1725 or 6-1758
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London : Printed for G. Burnet, without Temple-bar, MDCCLVIII. [1758]
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Observations on Mr. Fielding's enquiry into the causes of the late increase of Robbers, &c. In which not only the present reigning vices among the vulgar are more candidly and impartially considered; but the follies and vices of the politer part of the British nation are freely represented; as also the pernicious consequences of drinking gin more particularly described: By Ben. Sedgly, of Temple-Bar. To which are added, considerations on the nature of government in general; and more particularly of the British constitution: with a vindication of the rights and privileges of the commonalty of England, in opposition to what has been advanced by the author of the enquiry, or to what may be promulgated by any ministerial artifices, against the public cause of truth and liberty: by Timothy Beck, the happy cobler of Portugal Street
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Beck, Timothy
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London : Printed for J. Newbery in St. Paul's Church-yard, and W. Owen at Temple Bar, M.DCC.LI. [1751]
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The life and glorious actions of the most heroic and magnanimous Jonathan Wilde, generalissimo of the prig-forces in Great-Britain and Ireland introduced with the most memorable passages in the lives of his ancestors ; and concluding with his behaviour in Newgate and at the place of execution. With an explanation of the most usual terms of art in the canting dialect
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London : Printed for H. Whitridge, in Searle-street by Lincolns-Inn Back-Gate, 1725.
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LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 523 W644 725
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An Account of the tryal of John O Bryan, and Bryan O Donell, who were try'd yesterday, at the King's-Bench for robbing of John Molloy, and Catherine his wife and a careman, on Whitsun-Monday last, being the 1st of May, 1716 near Finglos-Bridge, about 10 at night, for which they were both guilty of the fact
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Dublin : [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1716.
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Die Jovis, 8 Novembr. 1649. Two orders of Parliament, the one appointing the giving of ten pounds to every one who shall bring in a high-way-man, the other, referring to the Councel of State to give reprieves to persons guilty of robberies, if they shall discover any of their accomplices
Author
England and Wales. Parliament
Published
London : Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, [1649]
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Die Jovis, 8 Novembr. 1649. Two orders of Parliament, the one referring to the Councel of State, to give ten pounds to every one who shall bring in a high-way-man, the other, referring to the said Councel to give reprieves to persons guilty of robberies if they shall discover any of their accomplices
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England and Wales. Parliament
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London : Printed by John Field for Edward Husband ..., [1649]
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Two orders of Parliament, the one appointing the giving of ten pounds to every one who shall bring in a high-way-man, the other, referring to the Councel of State to give reprieves to persons guilty of robberies, if they shall discover any of their accomplices
Author
England and Wales. Parliament
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London : Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, printers to the Parliament of England, [1649]
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BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> BrSides By6 1649
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Two orders of Parliament, the one appointing the giving of ten pounds to every one who shall bring in a high-way-man, the other, referring to the Councel of State to give reprieves to persons guilty of robberies, if they shall discover any of their accomplices
Author
England and Wales. Parliament
Published
London : Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, printers to the Parliament of England, [1649]
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To the right honourable the knights, citizens and burgesses now assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of Lewis De Gand, a French nobleman, Lord of Brachey and Romecour
Author
Gand, Louis de
Published
[London : s.n., 1641]
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