Select trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey
Subtitle: for murder, robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, frauds, bigamy and other offences : to which are added, genuine accounts of the lives, behaviour, confessions and dying speeches of the most eminent convicts : in four volumes, from the year 1720, to this time : amongst a great many other remarkable trials are for murder, James Hall, Sara Malcomb, T. Billings, T. Wood and Catherine Hayes, Capt. John Jayne, Richard Savage, James Clough, Lewis Houssart, Major J. Oneby, Burnworth, Blewit and their Gang T. Athoe and his son, &c., &c., &c., for the highway, W. Gorden, W. Wreathock and his gang, T. Carr and E. Adams, Mary Young alias Jenny Diver, James Dalton &c., for forgery, Richard Brahant, Parson Kinnersley and W. Hales &c., for rapes and attempts to ravish, Arthur Gray, Samuel Street, Colonel Charteris, William West &c., for receiving stolen goods, J. Barthelmi, Jonathan Wild, &c., for burglary, John Sheppard, Edgworth Bess, &c., for sodomy and sodomitical practices, Margaret Clap, Charles Hitchin &c
Series: Making of modern law
Publisher: Printed by J. Applebee for George Strahan ...
Published: 1742
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Criminals; Early works to 1800; Trials (Murder)
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Table of contents: title: v. 2., from August 1723 to April 1726.