Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

2nd November 1736

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2nd November 1736


ADVERTISEMENTS.

This Day is publish'd, In Two Volumes in Octavo, Price fourteen Shillings.

SELECT TRIALS at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for Murders, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, and other Offences, from the Year 1720 to the present Time; chiefly transcrib'd from Notes taken in Court, with genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confessions and Dying Speeches of the most eminent Convicts. These Trials, &c. are not to be met with in any other Collection.

These two Volumes contain the Trials of Hawkins and Sympson for robbing the Bristol Mail, with an Account of all their Robberies; of Spiggot the famous Highwayman that bore 350 lb. Weight on his Breast; of Butler, Barton, Fox, Hawes, Wright, Colthouse, Drury, Warwick, Yates, Armstrong, Beck, Edwards, and many others, all famous Highwaymen, and Street-Robbers; of Arthur Grey< no role > the famous Footman for Burglary, with an Intent to ravish Mrs. Murray; of Dr Krauft, Pritchard, Simmonds, Cook, Ellis, and many others for Rapes, all very entertaining; of Capt. Stanley, for the Murder of his Whore; of Brinsdon, Crony, Nichols, Mac-Gennis, Lutterell, the famous Nanny Butler, Vaughan and Cholmly (two Constables) Forster Snow< no role > , and many others for Murder; also Major Oneby, for the Murder of Mr. Gower, with his Life; of Vezey and Hallam, for the Murder of their Wives; of Ricard Savage< no role > , Esq ; for Murder, Edward Strafford< no role > , Esq ; and many others; of Sally Salisbury< no role > , for an Attempt to stab the Hon. J- F-, Esq; of Sir Charles Burton< no role > , Bart , for Felony; of Duffus, Gabriel Lawrence< no role > , and a great many others for Sodomy, shewing all the Tricks and Methods used by the Mollies; of Squire Day alias Davenport for a Cheat, and several others for Bilking their Lodgings; of two German Counts for forging a Bank Note; of Johnathan Wild< no role > for several Felonies, with several Particulars of his Life, never before published; of Mrs. Gregory, for marrying Squire Cockerl, uder pretence of being a great Fortune; of the infamous Catherine Hays< no role > , who murder'd her Husband, and lay with another Man the same Night; of Mrs. Sherman, for giving Poison to Mr. Chevet; of Vevers the Bricklayer, on all his Indictments; of Mary Hendron< no role > , for marrying Miss Morris to an Irishman against her Consent; of blind Cowper and Harpham, and others for Coining; of Russel for a Misdemeanour, for endeavouring to carry away Mrs. Benson; of William Hales< no role > , Esq ; and Parson Kinnersley for Forgery; of Atkinson for the Murder of his Mother at Charing-Cross; with a great Number of diverting Tryals of Whores for robbing those that pick'd them up; and several other remarkable ones, for the Highway, Rapes, Murder, Burglaries, &c.

Both Volumes containing upwards of Five hundred Trials; among which are upwards of seventy Times for Murder, near Sixty of Whores for privately stealing, uwards of one Hundred for the Highway, about Thirty for Rapes; the rest being for Frauds Forgery, Burglary, Sodomy Bigamy, Shop-listing, Riots Misdemeanors, Receiving Stollen Goods Single Felonies &c. &c. &c.

Sold by I. APPLEBEE, in Bolt-Court Fleet-Street.

N. B. These Trials are not only very necessary for all Lawyers, Justices of the Peace, Clerks 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.

These Trials, which make-26 Numbers, were Published once a Fortnight; and such Persons as want any Numbers to compleat their Setts, are desired to send for them very speedily, or it will be impossible ever to complete them.

This Day is Published, Price 5 s.

EVERY Man his own Lawyer: Or, a Summary of the Laws of England in a New and Instructive Method, under the following Heads, viz.

I. Of Actions and Remedies, Writs, Process, Arrests and Bail.

II. Of Courts, Attornies and Solicitors therein, Juries, Witnesses, Trials, Executions, &c.

III. Of Estates and Property in Lands and Goods, and how acquired, Ancestors, Heirs, Executors and Administrators.

IV. Of the Laws relating to Marriage, Bastardy, Infants, Ideots, Lunaticks.

V. Of the Liberty of the Subject, Magna Charta, the Habeas Corpus Act, and other Statutes.

VI. Of the king and his Prerogative, the Queen, Peers, Judges, Sheriffs, Coroners, Justices of the Peace, Constables, &c.

VII. Of Publick Offences, Treason, Murder Felony, Burglary, Robbery, Rape, Sodomy, Forgery, Perjury, &c. And their Punishment.

All of them so plainly treated of, that all Manner of Persons may be particularly acquainted with our L A W S and S T A T U T E S, concerning Civil and Criminal Affairs, and know how to defend themselves, and their Estates and Fortunes; in all Cases whatsoever.

Printed for J. Hazard, against Stationers-Hall, near Ludgate.

Where may be had,

1. The Law, of Tithes, the second Edition, pr. 5 s.

2. A Tithing Table, shewing by way of Analysis, of what Things Tythes are, or are not due, either by Common-Law, Custom, or prescription, price 1 s.

Both the above by William Bohun< no role > , of the Middle-Temple , Esq ;




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