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

5th October 1737

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5th October 1737


BOOKS, Printed and Sold by J. APPLEBEE, in Bolt-Court , Fleet-Street .

1. SELECT TRIALS at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baley, 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. In Two Volumes, Price 14 s.

These Two Volumes contains the TRIALS of Hawkings and Sympson, for robbing the Bristol Mail, with an Account of all their Robberies.

Spiggot, the famous Highwayman, that bore 350 Pound Weight on his Breast.

Butler, Bton, Fox, Hawes, Wright-Colthouse, Drury, Warwick, Yates, Armstrong, Beck, Edwards, and many others, all famous Highwaymen and Street-Robbers.

Arthur Grey< no role > the famous Footman , for Burglary with an Intent to ravish Mrs. Murray.

Dr. Kraafe, Pritchard, Simmonds, Cooke, Ellis, and many others for Rapes, all very entertaining.

Capt. Stanly, for the Murder of his Whore.

Brinsdon, Carry Nichols, Mac Gennis Iterell, the famous Nanny Butler, Vaughan, and Cholmly, (two Constables) Foster Snow< no role > , & many others for Murder Major Onlry, for the Murder of Mr. Gower, with his Life.

Vy and Hallam, for the Murder of their Wives.

Richard Savage< no role > . Esq ; for Murder, with his Life.

Captain Jane, for Murder Edward Stafford< no role > , Esq ; and many others.

Sally Salisbury< no role > , for an Attempt to stab the Hon. Esq;

Sir Charles Burton< no role > Bart , for Felony.

Duffs, Carid ence, and a great many others, for Sodomy, shewing all the Tricks and Methods used by the Mollies.

Squire Day, alias Davenport, for a Cheat, and several others for bilking their Lodgings.

Two German Counts, for forging a Bank, Note.

Jonathan Wild< no role > , for several Felonies, with several Particulars of his Life, never before published.

Mrs. Gregory, for marrying 'Squire Cockeril, under Pretence of being a great Fortune.

The infamous Catherine Hays< no role > , who murdered her Husband, and lay with another Man the very same Night.

Mrs. Shenan, for giving Poison to Mr. Chovet.

Vevers, the Brick layer, on all his Indictments.

Mary Hendron< no role > , for marrying Miss Morris to an Irishman, against her Consent.

Blind Cowper and Harpham, and others, for Coining.

Russel, for a Misdemeanour, in endeavouring to carry away Mrs. Benson.

William Hales< no role > , Esq ; and Parson Kinnersley, for Forgery.

Atkinson, for the Murder of his Mother, at Charing-Cross.

With a great Number of diverting TRIALS of Whores, for robbing of those that pick'd them up; and several other remarkable ones for the Highway, Rapes, Murders, Burglaries, &c.

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

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.

2. SALMON's new Abridgeme; of the STATE TRIALS; wherein are inserted several Trials not in any other Collection; also, some Trials that were taken in Haste and scarce intelligible, are brought into regular Order, and many Deficiencies through ut the Whole supply'd. Likewise REMARKS are made on each TRIAL, shewing what the Law Criminal Cases antiently was, how it has been and stands at this Day; together with impartial Memoirs of the Times and Characters of the Sufferers. To which is added, a compleat Alphabetical INDEX of the Names of the Prisoners tried, the Times when; their Crimes, and their Punishment. Price, neatly bound and letter'd on the Back, 1 l. 15 s.

3. MOGUL TALES, or, The Dreams of Men awake: Being Stories told to divert the Grief of the Sultana's of Guzarat for the supposed Death of the Sultan. Now first translated into English from the French of the celebrated Mr. GUELLETTE. With a Prefatory Discourse on the Usefulness of ROMANCES.

In pleasing Tales the artful Sage can give,

Rules how in Happiness and Ease to live:

Can shew what Good should most attract the Mind,

And how our Woes we from our Vices find:

Delighting, yet instructing, this our Youth,

Who catch at Fable - how to gather Truth.

In Two Volumes, adorn'd with Cuts, neatly engrav'd on Copper Plates, Price 5 s.

4. The EUNUCH, or, The Darby Captain; a Farce, as it is acted by his Majesty's Servants at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Taken chiefly from Hautus and Terence, by the Editor of the late Edition of Terence in Three Volumes, Price 1 s.




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