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The new Newgate calendar : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters, who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, brought down to the present time, chronologically arranged : comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries, ravishers, pirates, mutineers, coiners, highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers, rioters, extortioners, sharpers, forgerers, pickpockets, fraudulent bankrupts, money-droppers, impostors, and thieves of every description : containing also a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional essays on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, and observations on particular cases, explanations of the criminal laws, the speeches, confessions, and last exclamations, of sufferers : to which is added, a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world

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The new Newgate calendar : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters, who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, brought down to the present time, chronologically arranged : comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries, ravishers, pirates, mutineers, coiners, highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers, rioters, extortioners, sharpers, forgerers, pickpockets, fraudulent bankrupts, money-droppers, impostors, and thieves of every description : containing also a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional essays on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, and observations on particular cases, explanations of the criminal laws, the speeches, confessions, and last exclamations, of sufferers : to which is added, a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world / by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, attornies at law.
Author
Knapp, Andrew (Attorney at law)
Publication
Liverpool : Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon ; London : J. and J. Cundee, 1809-1813.

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Baldwin, William (Attorney at law)
Description
1 online resource (5 volumes) : illustrations, portraits.
Series Statement
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
Uniform Title
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
Subject
  • Newgate (Prison : London, England)
  • Criminals > Great Britain > Biography
  • Punishment > Great Britain
  • Trials > Great Britain
Note
  • Imprint information from volume I, plate facing page xi, and volume V, place facing page 537.
  • Includes indexes.
  • Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
OCLC
  • 937019178
  • CPPC03266
Author
Knapp, Andrew (Attorney at law), author.
Title
The new Newgate calendar : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters, who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, brought down to the present time, chronologically arranged : comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries, ravishers, pirates, mutineers, coiners, highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers, rioters, extortioners, sharpers, forgerers, pickpockets, fraudulent bankrupts, money-droppers, impostors, and thieves of every description : containing also a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional essays on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, and observations on particular cases, explanations of the criminal laws, the speeches, confessions, and last exclamations, of sufferers : to which is added, a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world / by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, attornies at law.
Publisher
Liverpool : Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon ; London : J. and J. Cundee, 1809-1813.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Series
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
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