The trial of the notorious highwayman Richard Turpin
Subtitle: at York Assizes on the 22d day of March, 1739, before the Hon. Sir William Chapple, Kt. Judge of assize and one of His Majesty's justices of the Court of King's Bench
By: taken down in court by Mr. Thomas Kyll, professor of short hand ; to which is prefix'd an exact account of the said Turpin from his first coming into Yorkshire to the time of his being committed prisoner to York Castle, communicated by Mr. Appleton of Beverley clerk of the peace for the East-riding of the said county ; with a copy of a letter which Turpin received from his father, while under sentence of death ; to which is added his behaviour at the place of execution, on Saturday the 7th of April 1739 ; together with the whole confession he made to the hangman at the gallows, wherein he acknowledg'd himself guilty of the facts for which he suffer'd, own'd the murder of Mr. Thompson's servant on Epping-Forest, and gave a particular account of several robberies which he had committed
Contributors: Kyll, Thomas; Great Britain. Assizes (York)
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature
Publisher: Printed by Ward and Chandler, and sold at their shop ... London, and in ... York
Published: 1739
Place of publication: York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Early works to 1800; Trials (Robbery)
Notes: Signatures: *⁴ B-D⁴.

Reproduction of the original from the British Library.