A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. To which is added, a genuine account of the voyages and plunders of the most notorious pyrates. Interspersed with several ... tales and ... songs. An adorned with the heads of the most remarkable villains ... engraven on copper. By Capt. Charles Johnson. Consisting of adaptations of lives of highwaymen and others from “The History of the Lives of the most Noted Highwaymen ... By Capt. Alexander Smith,” interspersed with lives of pirates taken from the first volume of “A General History of the Pirates” by Captain Charles Johnson, pseudonym of Daniel Defoe?


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A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes


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A Complete History of the Highwaymen discloses the most secret and barbarous murders, unparalleled robberies, notorious thefts and unheard of cheats, setting them in a true light and exposing them to public view for the common benefit of mankind. The accounts and confessions are drawn from imprisoned villains who awaited their fate at the gallows. This reprint makes available the 1926 reissue of Captain Smith's fifth edition and includes an introduction by Arthur L. Hayward, which sets the accounts in the appropriate historical context.







A Compleat history of the lives and robberies of the most notorious highwaymen, ... for above an hundred years past. ... To which is prefix'd the Thieves new Canting-Dictionary. ... The fifth edition. (The third volume of the compleat history of the lives, robberies, piracies and murders committed ... from the time of Edward the Confessor, ... with the thieves Grammar.).


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