The Malefactor's Register: Or, the Newgate and Tyburn Calendar: Containing the Authentic Lives, Trials, Accounts of Executions and Dying Speeches (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781535807005)

who have suffered death and other exemplary punishments, in England, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to Lady-day 1779: together with numerous trials in extraordinary cases, where the parties have been acquited: this work comprehends all the most material passages in the sessions-papers for a long series of years and complete narratives of all the capital trials for bigamy, burglary, felony, forgery, highway-robbery, high-treason, murder, petit-treason, piracy, rape, riots, street-robbery, unnatural crimes and various other offecnces: to which is added a correct lift of all the captial convictions at the Old Bailey &c., once the commencement of the present century, which will be of the highest use to refer to on many occasions: the whole tending by a general display of the progress and conferences of vice, to imprefs on the mind proper ideas of the happiness resulting from a life of strict honor and intefrity: and to convince individuals of the superior excellence of those lawa framed for the protection of their lives and properties c. 1799

Author: Various
ISBN-10: 1535807008
ISBN-13: 9781535807005
Publisher: Gale and the British Library
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1779
Pages: 468
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.37lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.94d