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The life and exploits of Jack Sheppard : a notorious housebreaker and footpad; giving a full acount of his numerous robberies: his escape from the New Prison; his commitment to Newgate; he is tried, and receives sentence of death; his wonderful escape from thence although loaded with irons; he is retaken, confined in the condemned cell, and chained to the floor; then removed to a stronger place in Newgate, called the Castle, from which place he escapes in the night; he is again taken, and secured in Newgate; after which he is hung at Tyburn.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Derby : Thomas Richardson ; London : Simpkin, Marshall and Co. ; Portsea : S. Horsey, [1830?]
Description
24 p., 1 folded leaf of plates : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
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Sheppard, Jack 1702-1724
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Biography
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Thieves
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England
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Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724
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Notes
"The following account was written by Sheppard during his confinement in the middle stone-room, and left with the ordinary for publication", p. 19-23.
OCLC
61506688
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