This Day is published, [Price 6d.] No. 21. (Being the ninth Number of the second Volume of)

SELECT TRIALS at the Sessions House in the Old Baily, for Murders, Robberies Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds and other Offences, from the Year 1720 to the present time; chiefly transcribed from Notes taken in Court, with genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Speeches of the most eminent Convicts. N.B. These Trials, &c. are not to be met with in any other Collection.

This Number contains among others, The Trial of James Clough < no role > , on an Appeal for Murder, with a remarkable Account of that Murder, of Bigg, for sending a threatning Letter; of Kemp, for several Burglaries; of Robinson, for stealing Money out of Letters at the General Post-Office; and the several Trials of William Acton < no role > , Deputy-Keeper of the Marshallea, for Murder, his Trial being directed by the House of Commons. Also the Tryals of Mary Maccartney < no role > and Mary Wild < no role > ( Jonathan Wild < no role > 's Brother's Wife, for privately stealing; Thomas Bambridge < no role > This name instance is in set 3125. , Esq; late Warden of the Fleet for Felony; Peter Coffee < no role > for Forgery; and James Dalton < no role > for attempting to rob Dr. Mead, and for Robbing John Waller < no role > , who was afterwards kill'd in the Pillory by Dalton's Brother, and one Grissin.

Printed for J Wilford behind the Chapter-House near St. Paul's Church-Yard.

Where may be had Vol. I.(Price Six Shillings)

Containing upwards of Three Hundred Trials of which are Seventy-seven Trials of the most notorious Highwaymen, with their Lives and Dying-Speeches; Fifty three for Murder, several of which are very remarkable; Thirty-one, of Whores for privately stealing, which are very entertaining; Ten, of noted Shoplifters; Sixty 2, of House-breakers, &c. Nineteen, for Frauds, Riots, and Misdemeanors; Eleven, for Rapes and Attempts to ravish, Eight, for receiving stolen Goods; Nine, for single Felonies; Five, for receiving stolen Goods; Five, for Coining; Two, for Forgery; Four, for Sodomy; One, for Bigamy; Two for Returning from Transportation; Two, for Horse-stealing; and Ten for endeavouring to set up a new Mint.

N.B. These Trials are not only very necessary for all Lawyers, Justices of the Peace, Clarks of the Indictments, and other Persons concern'd in Prosecutions, &c. but are very useful and entertaining to the Generality of Readers; and every Number contains more in Quantity, and is cheaper than any thing ever publish'd this way.

This Day is Published, Price 2 s. 6 d. neatly Bound, The Third Volume of,

THE Lives of most of remarkable Criminals who have been condemn'd and executed for Murder, Highway, House-breaking, Street-robberies, Coining, or other Offences, from the Year 1720. to the present Time. Containing particularly, the Lives of William Berwick < no role > , for the Murder of his Wife; James Cluff < no role > for the Murder of his Fellow Servant Mary Green; Capt. John Gow < no role > a Pirate and Murderer; John Perry < no role > , his Mother and Brother, for the supposed Murder of the Rev. Mr. Harrison at Campden in Gloucestershire; James Dalton < no role > a House-breaker; John Everet < no role > who kept the Cock Alehouse in the Old Baily; and Ferdinando Shrimpton, a Highwayman, &c. John Featherby < no role > and the rest of his Gang, notorious House-breakers; James Drummond < no role > and Robert Drummond < no role > , two Brothers, Highwaymen. Collected from original Papers and authentick Memoirs. Printed and sold by John Osborn < no role > at the Golden Ball in Paternoster-Row; where may be had compleat Sets at 7 s. 6 d.

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The following Books for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth are just published and sold by Richard Ware < no role > at the Bible and Sun in Amen Corner near Pater-noster-Row.

I. A Description of three Hundred Animals-viz. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, S < no role > Insects. With a particular Account of the Whale Fishery, extracted out of the best Authors and adapted to the Use of all Capacities, especially to allure Children to read. Illustrated with Copper-Plates; whereon is curiously engraved, every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent or Insect, described in the whole Book. Price 2 s. 6 d.

II. The Young Clerk's Assistant: Or, Penmanship made easy. Being a compleat Pocket Copy Book for the Practice of Youth in the Art of Writing. With a Supplement, consisting of Select Poems on several Occasions, Moral and Divine. Extracted from the most celebrated English Authors, viz. Waller, Dryden, Addison, Pope, Gay, &c. for the Amusement of the Fair Sex. To which is added, A curious Drawing Book of Modes, designed by the famous Bernard Picard < no role > , and engraved by G. Bickham, jun. &c. for the early Improvement of young Gentlemen and Ladies in the Practice of the Pencil, as well as Pen. Price 3 s. 6 d. stiched in gilt Paper.

III. The Young Man's Companion: Or, Arithmetick made easy. Containing also Instructions for Writing Letters, Bills, Bonds and Book-keeping; and Directions for measuring all sorts of Carpenter's Work, &c. with several other necessary Things for qualifying a Young Man for Business. By William Mather < no role > . The 14th Edition, with an Addition of five new Copper-Plates. By Bickham. Price 2 s. 6 d.

IV. Emblems for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth; containing Hieroglyphical and Enigmatical Devices, relating to all Parts and Stations of Life; together with Explanations and Proverbs in French, Spanish, Italian and Latin, alluding to them, and translated into English. The whole curiously engraved on 62 Copper-Plates. Price 2 s. 6 d.

Just published

Printed for Richard Ware < no role > at the Bible and Sun in Warwick Lane, Amen-Corner,in 2 vols. 8vo. price 10 s. 6 d.

A Treatise of Architecture, with Remarks and Observations. By that excellent Master thereof, Sebastian Le Clerc < no role > , Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Necessary for all Masons, Joyners, &c or any who desire to attain to a Knowledge of that noble Art. The third Edition. Translated by Mr. Chambers. To which is added, 200 curious Copper-Plates, engraven by the late ingenious Mr. Sturt.

2. The 14th Edition, with the Addition of five new Copper-Plates engraved by Bickham, of the Young Man's Companion: Or. Arithmetick made easy. Containing also Instructions for writing Letters, Bills, Bonds and Book-keeping; and Directions for measuring all Sorts of Carpenter's Works, &c. with several other necessary Things for qualifying a young Man for Business. By William Mather < no role > . Price 2 s. 6 d.

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