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Frowns

The Recorder making the Report of the capital Convicts to His Majesty in Council .

THE

NEW AND COMPLETE

Newgate Calendar;

OR,

VILLANY DISPLAYED

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

Containing New and Authentic Accounts of all the Lives, Adventures, Ex-
ploits, Trials, Executions, and Lait Dying Speeches, Confeffions, (as well as
Letters to their Relatives never before publifhed) of the most Notorius Male-
factors and others of both Sexes and all Denominations, who have fuffered Death
and other exemplary Punishments for

Murders,

Burglaries,

Felonies,

Horfe-Stealing,

Bigamy,

Forgeries,
Highway Robberies,

Footpad Robberies,

Perjuries,

Piracies,

Rapes,

Riots, Mobbing,
Sodomy,

Starving to Death,
Sheep Stealing,

Swindling,
High-Treafon,

Petit-Treafon,

Sedition and other
Mifdemeanors.

Interfperfed with Notes, Reflections, and Remarks, arifing from the feveral
Subjects, Moral, Ufeful, and Entertaining.

Including the Tranfactions of the most remarkable Prifoners, tried for High
Treafon at the Old Bailey, viz. HARDY, HORNE TOOKE, THELWALL, &C.
Likewife the Trials of WATT, DOWNIE, PALMER, FITZGERALD, MAR-
CAROTT, &c. &c. at Edinburgh for High Treafon, Sedition, Libels, &c. &c.
Comprehending alfo, all the moft material Paffages in the SESSIONS PAPERS
for a long Series of Years; together with the ORDINARY OF NEWGATE'S AC-
count of the CAPITAL CONVICTS; and complete NARRATIVES of all the
moft remarkable TRIALS.

Also a great Variety of the most important Lives and Trials never before
published in any former Work of the Kind.

The whole containing the most faithful Narratives ever yet published of the
various Executions, and other exemplary Punishments, which have happened in
England, Scotland and Ireland, from the Year 1700, to the present Time.
Properly arranged from the Records of Court.

By WILLIAM JACKSON, Esq.

Of the Inner-Temple, Barrister at Law; Affifted by Others.

How dreadful the Fate of the Wretches who fall,

A Victim of Laws they have broke!

Of Vice, the Beginning frequently fmall,
But how fatal at length is the Stroke!

The Contents of thefe Volumes will amply display

The Steps which Offenders have trod:

Learn hence, then, each Reader, the Laws to obey
Of your Country, your King, and your God.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

Illuftrated with upwards of Sixty Elegant Copper Plates.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS:

Published by ALEX. HOGG, at No. 16, Paternofter Row;
by all Bookfellers and fmen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Irela

226 i. 72.

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