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With the circumstances of each fraud, and the names of all the parties injured. The northern hero [electronic resource] : being a faithful narrative of the life, adventures, and deceptions, of James George Semple, commonly called Major Semple, alias Major Harrold, Major Maxwell, Major Grant, Major Cunningham, Major Winter, &c. &c. &c. With an Account of his Devices at Lord Salisbury's, Sir Thomas Dundass's, and Mr. Pitt's. Also the almost innumerable Inventions by which he obtained Goods of Tradesmen of every Profession, with the Particulars of each Transaction. The Whole supported by indisputable Authority, with the Names of the Persons who were the Objects of his Depredations, and the singular Manner of his Apprehension. Together with an account of his trial, Before Mr. Justice Gould and the Recorder, at th Old Bailey, on Saturday, September 2, for defrauding Mr. John Lycett, Coach-Maker, in Whitechapel, of a post-chaise, value Fifty Guineas, of which the Jury convicted him without going out of Court.
by Semple, James George, b. 1759. Material type:  Book; Language:English; Format:
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 Publisher: [1786]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The lives of Stephen M'daniel, John Berry, James Egan, (alias Gahagan) and James Salmon, [electronic resource] : thief-takers. Containing, a full account of the evidence on which they were convicted, which opens such a Scene of Villainy as is scarce to be paralell'd in History. Together with Mr. Cox's narrative, by whose vigilance and industry, they were discovered, taken and brought to Justice. With the evidence they gave against Kelly and Ellis at the assizes at Maidstone. Likewise the case of Kidden, the porter, who was wrongfully convicted of a robbery on the highway; and executed at Tyburn, on the Evidence of M`daniel, Berry, Blee, and other Thief-Takers;. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1755Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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A brief account of the kings and queens, whose statues (now repaired and decorated in a most splendid manner) are placed in the Royal-Exchange of London, With The Reasons why some of their Statues are not set up, that such Persons, as have not Leisure or Opportunity to read the general Histories at large, may be acquainted with the Succession and principal Events that happened in the Reigns of these illustrious Personages, in a continued Series from Edward I. to our present Sovereign, so clearly connected as that a Person of an indifferent Memory may relate the Whole after Perusal. By John Halliday, M.A. Teacher of the Languages and Mathematicks, in Ayliffe-Street, Goodman's-Fields [electronic resource].
by Halliday, John, A.M. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: [1754]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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