The annals of Newgate : or, malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors, who have suffered an ignominious Death for their Offences, viz. for Parricide, Murder, Treason, Robbery, Burglary, Piracy, Coining, Forgery, and Rapes: From the Commitment of the celebrated John Sheppard, to the Acquittal of the equally celebrated Margaret Caroline Rudd. Including a Period of fifty Years and upwards, both in Town and Country. Calculated To expose the Desormity of Vice, the Infamy and Punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the Paths of Virtue; and intended as a Beacon to warn the rising Generation against the Temptations, the Allurements, and the Dangers of bad Company. The former Part extracted from Records; and the Histories and Transactions of the modern Convicts, communicated by the unhappy Sufferers themselves, since the Author has been appointed to his present Office. By the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Villette, John, d. 1799.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Great Britain.

Crime.

Crime and criminals--Great Britain.

Crime and criminals.

Newgate (Prison : London, England)--History.

Newgate (Prison : London, England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4v.,plates )

Other Title:

Annals of Newgate

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Wenman, No. 144, Fleet-Street, and sold by all other Booksellers, 1776.

Notes:

Vols.2-4 do not bear Villette's name on the titlepage.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T117296.

OCLC:

642301573