Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

23rd October 1771

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By the KING's Authority.

This Day is published, in Four large Volumes, Octavo.

(Adorned with Forty beautiful Copper-Plates, finely engraved from original Drawings by the best Artists; Price One Pound Four Shillings bound, or Twenty shillings sewed in blue Covets)

THE TYBURN CHRONICLE: OR, VILLAINY DISPLAY'D IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

Containing an Authentic Account of the Lives, Adventures, Trials, Executions, and Last Dying Speeches of the MOST NOTORIOUS MALEFACTORS, of all Denominations, who have suffered for

Bigamy,

Forgeries,

Highway Robberies,

House-breaking,

Murders,

Perjury,

Piracy,

Rapes,

Riots,

Sodomy,

Starving,

Treason,

And other the Most Enormous Crimes.

The Whole being the most faithful Narrative ever yet published, of the various Executions, and other Punishments, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the Year 1700 to the present Time.

How dreadful the Fate of the Wretches who fall, A Victim to Laws they have broke! Of Vice, the Beginning is frequently small, But how fatal at length is the Stroke! The Contents of these 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.

Printed for J. COOKE, in Pater-noster-Row, London; and sold by most other Booksellers and News Carriers in Great Britain and Ireland.

*** Such Persons as are not inclined to purchase the whole together, may take it in Weekly; the whole being comprised in Forty Numbers, Price Sixpence each.

Just Published, Price bound EIGHT SHILLINGS,

Curiously engraved by the best Hands, a new Edition, being the SEVENTH,

BRACHYGRAPHY, OR, SHORT-WRITING made EASY to the MEANEST CAPACITY.

The Whole is founded on so just a Plan, that it is wrote with greater Expedition than any yet invented; and likewise may be read with the greatest Ease.

By the late Mr. THOMAS GURNEY < no role > , upwards of Twenty Years Writer of these PROCEEDINGS.

Sold by his Son and Successor, Joseph Gurney < no role > , Bookseller in Holborn, opposite Hatton-Garden; who takes down Trials at Law, Pleadings, Debates, &c. and also sold by the most eminent Booksellers of London and Westminster.




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