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THE

NEW AND COMPLETE

Newgate Calendar;

OR,

VILLANY DISPLAYED

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

Containing New and Authentic Accounts of all the Lives, Adventures, Ex-
loits, Trials, Executions, and Laft Dying Speeches, Confeffions, (as well as
etters to their Relatives never before publifhed) of the most notorious Male-
actors and others of both Sexes and all Denominations, who have fuffered Death
nd other exemplary Punishments for

Murders,

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Forgeries,
Highway Robberies

Footpad Robberies,

Perjuries,

Piracies,

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Interfperfed with Notes, Reflections, and Remarks, arifing from the several
abjects, 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 most 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
noft remarkable TRIALS.

Alfo 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
larious Executions, and other exemplary Punishments, which have happened in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the Year 1700 to the prefent Time.
Properly arranged from the Records of Court.

BY WILLIAM JACKSON, Efq.

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, is frequently small,
But how fatal at length is the ftroke!

The Contents of thefe Volumes will amply difplay
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 VOLUME S.

VOL. V.

Illuftrated with upwards of Sixty Elegant Copper Plates.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS:

Published by ALEX. HOGG, at No. 16, in Patersofter Row;
And Sold by all Bookfellers and Newfmen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.

226. i. 74.

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THE

NEW AND COMPLETE

Newgate Calendar;

OR,

VILLANY DISPLAYED

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

Containing New and Authentic Accounts of all the Lives, Adventures, Exloits, Trials, Executions, and Laft Dying Speeches, Confeffions, (as well as etters to their Relatives never before publifhed) of the most notorious Maleactors and others of both Sexes and all Denominations, who have fuffered Death nd other exemplary Punishments for

Murders,

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Forgeries,
Highway Robberies

Footpad Robberies,

Perjuries,

Piracies,

Rapes,

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Interfperfed with Notes, Reflections, and Remarks, arifing from the several abjects, Moral, Useful, and Entertaining.

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

Alfo a great Variety of the most important Lives and Trials never before ublished in any former work of the Kind.

The Whole containing the most faithful Narratives ever yet published of the arious Executions, and other exemplary Punishments, which have happened in ngland, Scotland, and Ireland, from the Year 1700 to the prefent 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, is frequently small,
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 VOLUME S.

VOL. V.

Illuftrated with upwards of Sixty Elegant Copper Plates.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS:

Published by ALEX. HOGG, at No. 16, in Paternoster Row;

And Sold by all Bookfellers and Neyfmen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.

226. i.

74.

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