A Compleat collection of remarkable tryals of the most notorious malefactors at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily, for near fifty years past
Subtitle: for the crimes following viz., murthers, highway-robbing, pyracy, house breaking, foot-padding, rapes, sodomy, bestiality, polygamy, fortune-stealing, trepanning, kidnapping, shop-lifting, perjury, counterfeiting the coin, exechequer-bills, bank-notes, stamps, &c. : together with a particular account of their behaviour under sentence of death and dying-speeches faithfully collected from the books of tryals and papers of Mr. Smith, Mr. Allen, Mr. Wikes and Mr. Lorrain, ordinaries of Newgate, from the first printing of them down to this present time : and from other authentick narratives
Series: Making of modern law
Publisher: Printed for J. Phillips and sold by J. Brotherton and W. Meadows and J. Roberts
Published: 1718
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Trials; Early works to 1800; Crime; Criminals
Other titles: Complete collection of remarkable trials of the most notorious malefactors at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily, for near fifty years past
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