The Malefactor's Register: Or, the Newgate and Tyburn Calendar: Containing the Authentic Lives, Trials, Accounts of Executions and Dying Speeches of the Most Notorious Violators of the Laws of Their Country:

who have suffered death and other exemplary punishments, in England, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to Lady-day 1779: together with numerous trials in extraordinary cases, where the parties have been acquited: this work comprehends all the most material passages in the sessions-papers for a long series of years and complete narratives of all the capital trials for bigamy, burglary, felony, forgery, highway-robbery, high-treason, murder, petit-treason, piracy, rape, riots, street-robbery, unnatural crimes and various other offecnces: to which is added a correct lift of all the captial convictions at the Old [Bailey &c., once the commencement of the present century, which will be of the highest [use to refer to on many occasions: the whole tending by a general display of the progress and conferences of vice, to imprefs on the mind proper ideas of the happiness resulting from a life of strict honor and intefrity: and to convince individuals of the superior excellence of those lawa framed for the protection of their lives and properties c. 1799