With the circumstances of each fraud, and the names of all the parties injured. The northern hero : 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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Semple, James George, 1759-

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Northern hero.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Impostors and imposture--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Impostors and imposture.

Soldiers--Great Britain--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Soldiers.

Trials (Larceny)--Early works to 1800.

Trials (Larceny).

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix pages, 1 unnumbered page,84 pages,plate ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for G. Kearsley, No. 46, Fleet-Street; and sold by all booksellers, [1786]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Later editions were published with the titles 'The northern imposter' and 'Memoirs of the northern impostor'.

With an advertisement leaf following the title page

Price from imprint: price One Shilling 1786. Of whom may be had, Price Three Shillings, being a proper Companion for this Work, the Whole forming an excellent Leston to the unwary. Memoirs of a Social Monster; or, The History of Charles Price: with a faithful Detail of his Devices and Depredations on Society for upwards of fifty Years. [+][+]Both these Works are entered at Stationers Hall.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N25779.

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