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D4621 - Crime and Punishment printed broadsheets, 18th-19th cent; calendars of prisoners 1790-1825 and other broadsheets - 1759-1863
1 - Crime and punishment printed broadsheets - 1759-1819
2 - Calendars of prisoners confined in the County Gaol - 1790-1825
3 - Sentences of the prisoners confined in the County Gaol - 1813-1817
4 - Other printed broadsheets/advertisements - 1764-1863
5 - Photographs - 19th cent
6 - Narratives listed by County - 1760-1824
1 - Leicestershire: An authentic narrative of that unfortunate peer, Lawrence Shirley, Earl of Ferrers, who was try'd and convicted on Wednesday the 16th and Thursday the 17th of April, 1760 and received sentence of death on Friday the 18th, for the barbarous murder of Mr John Johnson, by shooting him thro' the body at his lordship's seat in Leicestershire, for which he was executed at Tyburn on Monday the 5th of May, 1760. - 1760
2 - Leicestershire: Auction catalogue/notice - valuable museum late the property of Mr Kirkland, surgeon, at Ashby-de- la-Zouch, deceased. - 1824
3 - Lincolnshire: A true and genuine account of the lives, characters, and behaviour of nine capital convicts, viz John Huson, William Holdsworth, Thomas Rawson, Jonathan Warner, John Palserman, George Huntington, William Ligburn, John Wright, and Michael Harrison, who were executed at Lincoln on Friday the 18th day of March, 1785. - 1785
4 - Nottinghamshire: The genuine account of the life trial and behaviour of Cooper Hall, who was executed on Nottingham gallows on Wednesday the 27th of March, 1782 for robbing the mail between Tuxford and Newark. - 1782
5 - Nottinghamshire: The last dying speech and confession of Thomas Henfry and William Rider who were executed at Nottingham gallows on Wednesday 31st March 1784 for a highway robbery. - 1784
6 - Nottinghamshire: A full, true and particular account of the lives, trials and behaviour of Thomas Cooke, John Townsend and John Pendrill condemned at Nottingham Lent Assizes, 1785 for highway robberies, and of John Anderson, for horse stealing, who were executed on Nottingham gallows, on Wednesday, 23rd March. - 1785
7 - Nottinghamshire: The life, trial, and behaviour of William Davies, otherwise Rhodes, aged 21 who was executed on Nottingham gallows, on Wednesday 26th March1806 for forgery. - 1806
8 - Nottinghamshire: An account of the life, trial and execution of John Simpson, who was executed at Nottingham gallows, April 3rd 1816 for highway robbery. - 1816
9 - Staffordshire: The genuine lives and confessions of John Bidley, Richard. Ellis and J Betley who were executed at Stafford on Wednesday 20th March 1793, for the murder of Mr Thomas Ward, attorney at Stafford. - 1793
10 - Warwickshire: A genuine account of the lives, characters and behaviour of Thomas Bissel, Rich. Hawkins and John Farmer who was executed, on Monday the 18th April, 1785; the two former for uttering a forged note of hand, and the latter for horse stealing, 1785. - 1785
11 - Yorkshire: The new dissecting House Dissected; or the extraordinary affair in Eyre Street, Sheffield, which took place on Sunday, Jan 26th 1835, with the discovery of several dead bodies with an attempt (it is reported of two men) to Burke a woman. Copied from Burgin's Sheffield Paper, Jan 27th 1835. - 1835
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