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The trial of the notorious highwayman Richard Turpin : at York Assizes on the 22d day of March, 1739, before the Hon. Sir William Chapple, Kt. Judge of assize and one of His Majesty's justices of the Court of King's Bench / taken down in court by Mr. Thomas Kyll, professor of short hand ; to which is prefix'd an exact account of the said Turpin from his first coming into Yorkshire to the time of his being committed prisoner to York Castle, communicated by Mr. Appleton of Beverley clerk of the peace for the East-riding of the said county ; with a copy of a letter which Turpin received from his father, while under sentence of death ; to which is added his behaviour at the place of execution, on Saturday the 7th of April 1739 ; together with the whole confession he made to the hangman at the gallows, wherein he acknowledg'd himself guilty of the facts for which he suffer'd, own'd the murder of Mr. Thompson's servant on Epping-Forest, and gave a particular account of several robberies which he had committed.
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- Author/Creator:
- Turpin, Richard, 1706-1739.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Turpin, Richard, 1706-1739--Trials, litigation, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Turpin, Richard.
- Turpin, Richard, 1706-1739.
- Trials (Robbery)--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
- Trials (Robbery).
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4-25 pages, 1 unnumbered page).
- Place of Publication:
- [York] : [Printed by Ward and Chandler, and sold at their shop ... London, and in ... York], [1739]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Signatures: *⁴ B-D⁴.
- Reproduction of the original from the British Library.
- OCLC:
- 830945836
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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