The life, strange voyages, and uncommon adventures of Ambrose Gwinett : Formerly known to the public as the lame beggar: who, for a long Time swept the Way at the Mew's-Gate, Charing-Cross. Containing An Account of his being convicted and hanged in Chains, at Deal, in Kent, for the supposed Murder of Mr. Collins: his surprizing Recovery after being executed: his Voyage to the West-Indies, his being taken by the Spaniards, where he meets the identioal Collins whom he was supposed to have murdered: the Accident that threw Mr. Gwinett into the Hands of Pirates: his extraordinary Adventures with them, and being betaken by the Spaniards, and by them condemned to the Gallies: his being taken and made a Slave of by the Algerines, and after suffering many Hardships, his Return to England.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812.

Standardized Title:

Life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executions and executioners--England--Early works to 1800.

Executions and executioners.

Murder--England--Early works to 1800.

Murder.

Gwinett, Ambrose--Early works to 1800.

Gwinett, Ambrose.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (35,[1]p.,plate )

Edition:

The fourth edition.

Other Title:

Life, strange voyages, and uncommon adventures of Ambrose Gwinett.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Lever, Bookseller, Stationer, and Printseller, as Little Moorgate, next to London-Wall, near Moorfields, [1771?]

Notes:

Attributed to Isaac Bickerstaffe?.

With a final advertisement page.

Price from imprint: price Sixpence.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T107406.

OCLC:

642257454