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An act for the tryal of Sir Iohn Stowel knight of the Bath, David Ienkins Esq; Walter Slingsby Esq; Brown Bushel, William Davenant, otherwise called Sir William Davenant, and Colonel Gerrard

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A true and tragical song, concerning Captain John Bolton, of Bulmer, near Castle-Howard, who after a trial of nine hours, at York-Castle, on Monday the 27th of March, 1775, for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Rainbow, an Ackworth girl, his apprentice; was found guilty, and immediately received sentence to be executed at [T]yburn near York on Wednesday following, but on the same morning he strangled himself in the cell where he was confined, and so put a period to his wicked and desperate life. His body was then pursuant to his sentence, given to the surgeons at York infirmary to be dissected and anatomized. To the tune of "Fair lady lay your costly robes aside"

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The right dying speech and confession of Mr. Richard Noble, and the other five criminals, viz. Nich. Wells, Will. Thorne, Robert Wells, Will. Stanton and Jacob Skinner; who were executed at Kingston on Saturday last, the 28th of March 1713. Also the true copy of a paper which Mr. Noble left with the sheriff at the place of execution.

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The comical miller of Shaftsbury: being a pleasant account of one Joseph Reader, who was try'd last assizes at Dorchester, and acquitted, before Mr. Baron Bury, for hanging a highway-man, he had taken, upon the spot, in his own girdle, without carring him to justice.

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The narrative of the proceedings at the Sessions-house for London and Middlesex giving an account of the tryals of divers traitors, clippers, coyners, high-way men, and other notorious offenders, the number condemned to dye, to be whipt &c., with their respective crimes.

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A true relation of a barbarous and most cruell murther [com]mitted by one Enoch ap Euan, who cut off his owne naturall mothers head, and his brothers. The cause wherefore he did this most excrable act: ... with his condemnation and execution. VVith certaine pregnant inducements, both diuine and morall, ... .

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The confession and execution of Leticia Wigington of Ratclif who suffered at Tyburn on Fryday the 9th of this instant September, 1681 / by Wigington, Leticia, d. 1681.

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The last speech and confession of Charles Obrian and Daniel Cary who were both executed at Tyburn on Friday being the seventh day of September 1688, Charles Obrian for felony and burglary, and Daniel Cary for willful murther, &c.

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An account of the behaviour, confessions, and dying-speeches of the condemn'd criminals, that were executed at Tyburn, on Friday, December the 20th. 1700. by Lorrain, P. -1719.

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Mistaken justice: or, innocence condemn'd, in the person of Francis Newland, lately executed at Tyburn, for the barbarous murther of Mr. Francis Thomas. Being a true account of the evidence against him, of the truth of his case, and of his behaviour, from the time of his sentence, till his execution; attested by divers credible persons.

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An exact and most impartial accompt of the indictment, arraignment, trial, and judgment (according to law) of twenty nine regicides, the murtherers of His Late Sacred Majesty of most glorious memory begun at Hicks-Hall on Tuesday, the 9th of October, 1660, and continued (at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayley) untill Friday, the nineteenth of the same moneth, together with a summary of the dark, and horrid decrees of those caballists, preparatory to that hellish fact, exposed to view for the reader's satisfaction, and information of posterity /

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A hellish murder committed by a French midwife on the body of her husband, Jan. 27, 1687/8 for which she was arraigned at the Old-Baily, Feb. 22, 1687/8, and pleaded guilty and the day following received sentence to be burnt. by Hobry, Marie, d. 1688.

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The True narrative of the execution of John Marketman, chyrnrgian [sic], of Westham in Essex for committing a horrible and bloody murther upon the body of his wife, that was big with child when he stabbed her.

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A true and sad reration [sic] of the great and bloudy murder committed at Ratcliff in Stepney Parish neer the City of London, upon the body of John Hunter, a sea man, who was stabbed to the heart with a long knife, by one Mr. Smith and his wife and a young maid. Wherein is related, the manner how they received his bloud in a bason, and how they were discovered. With their examination the last Sessions in the Old-Bayley, before the honourable bench, and their confession. For which fact, both Smith, his wife, and the other strumpet hath now suffered death.

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The tryall and condemnation of Col. Daniel Axtell, who guarded the High-Court of Injustice. Col. Francis Hacker, who guarded His Sacred Majesty to the scaffold. Cap. Hewlet, who was proved to be the man that butchered His Majesty. Together with, their severall pleas, and the answers thereunto. At the sessions-house in the Old-baily, on Monday the 15. of October, 1660. By the judges appointed by the King for that purpose.

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A true copy of a letter, Writen by Mr. Harrison, in Newgate, to a near relation, after his condemnation for the murther of Doctor Clinch. by Harrison, Henry, d. 1692.

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The tryal of Charles Lord Mohun before the House of Peers in Parliament for the murder of William Mountford which began the 31 of January 1692 and continued by several adjournments till the fourth of February following : the Most Honourable the Lord Marquis of Carmarthen lord president of Their Majesties council being lord high steward, pro hac vice : together with the questions in points of law put by their lordships to the judges : the arguments of my Lord Mohun's counsel and the opinions of the judges upon the said questions.

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Blood will out, or, An example of justice in the tryal, condemnation, confession and execution of Thomas Lutherland, who barbarously murthered the body of John Clark of Philadelphia, and was executed at Salem in West-Jarsey the 23d of February, 1691/2. by Lutherland, Thomas, d. 1692.

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The tryal of Spencer Cowper, Esq; John Marson, Ellis Stevens, and William Rogers, gent. upon an indictment for the murther of Mrs. Sarah Stout, a Quaker Before Mr. Baron Hatsell, at Hertford assizes, July 18, 1699. of which they were acquitted. With the opinions of the eminent physicians and chirurgeons on both sides concerning drowned bodies, delivered in the tryal. And the several letters produced in court. by Cowper, Spencer, 1669-1728.

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A true paper delivered by Edmund Kirk, Vintner, (who was executed at Tyburn the 11. of July) for barbarously murthering his wife containing his confession and many other passages relating to his birth, parentage, education, and life ... by Kirk, Edmund, d. 1684.

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