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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Murders > Life, strange voyages, and uncommon adventures of Ambrose Gwinett |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/104185310 |
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| Description | Formerly known to the public by the lame beggar: who for a long time, swept the way at the Mewsgate, 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 indentical [sic] 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 re-taken 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. Glasgow, : Printed by J. & M. Robertson, Saltmarket, 1800. |
| Shelfmark | L.C.2833(21) |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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