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The new and complete Newgate calendar, or, Malefactor's bloody register : containing new and authentic accounts of the lives, adventures, exploits, last-dying-speeches, confessions, (as well as letters to their relatives never before published) of the most notorious malefactors and others of both sexes and all denominations, who have suffered death, and other exemplary punishments, for murders, burglaries, felonies, horse stealing, bigamy, forgeries, highway robberies, footpad robberies, perjuries, piracies, rapes, riots, mobbing, sodomy, starving to death, sheep stealing, swindling, high treason, petit treason, sedition, and other misdemeanors : interspersed with notes, reflections, and remarks, arising from all the several subjects, moral, useful, and entertaining : including the transactions of the most remarkable prisoners, tried for high treason at the Old Bailey, viz. Hardy, Horne Tooke, Thelwall, &c. : likewise the trials of Watt, Downe, Palmer, Fitzgerald, Margarott, &c. &c. at Edinburgh for high treason, sedition, libels, &c. &c. : comprehending likewise, all the most material passages in the sessions papers for a long series of years, more than a century, together with the ordinary of Newgate's accounts of the capital convicts, and complete narratives of all the most remarkable trials : also a great variety of the most important lives and trials never before published in any former work of the kind : the whole containing the most faithful narratives ever yet published of the various executions, and other exemplary punishments, which have happened in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, from the year 1700, to the present time : the whole properly arranged from the records of courts / by William Jackson.