Executions and executioners

'Executions and executioners' contains the following 22 items:

	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Copy of a letter written by David M'Roberts to his wife two days before his execution [104184214] Author: McRoberts, David, -1798 Printer: M'Lachlan, Cuthbert, active 1793-1817 Date printed: 1798
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Execution, or, The affecting history of Tom Bragwell [104184276] Printer: Miller, John, 1780-1852 Date printed: 1828
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Particular account of the murder of Mr Thos. Weare, the trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt and the execution of J. Thurtell [104184520] Probable date printed: 1824
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Life, trial and execution of Mary Thompson, aged 19 [104184762] Probable date printed: 1841
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Life, trial and execution of Agnes Rae, aged 22 [104184772] Date printed: 1820
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Life of Richard Turpin [104184939] Printer: Johnston, Thomas (Printer) Probable date printed: 1810-1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Bonny Gilderoy [104184974] Printer: Johnston, Thomas (Printer) Date printed: 1815
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Life of Richard Turpin [104185105] Printer: Johnston, Thomas (Printer) Probable date printed: 1810-1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Life and adventures of David Haggart [104185184] Author: Haggart, David, 1801-1821 Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Account of the imprisonment and execution of Poor Dennis [104185488] Probable date printed: 1844-1846
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Executions in Scotland from the year 1600 up to the present time [104185497]
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Life of Richard Turpin, a most notorious highwayman [104186026] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Interesting particulars of the last moments, and execution, of Moses M'Donald [104186139] Printer: Scott, William, of Greenock Probable date printed: 1812-1820
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Malefactor reformed, or, The life of Philip Parson, of Birmingham [104186195] Printer: Crawford, Hugh, active 1805-1851 Date printed: 1815
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Correct account of the life, confession, and execution of Willm. Burke [104186329] Printer: Caldwell, G. Probable date printed: 1829
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Life, trial and execution, of Mary Thompson [104186364] Printer: Caldwell, G. Date printed: 1841
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Account of the executions in Scotland for the past 200 years [104186375] Date printed: 1856
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Particular and impartial account, of what happened on the scaffold, at the execution of Colonel Marcus Despard, Thomas Broughton, John Francis, Arthur Graham, John MacNamara, John Wood, and J. Sedgwick Wratten, for high treason [104186558] Printer: Randall, C. (Charles), 1749-1812 Date printed: 1803
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Correct account of the life, confession, and execution of Willm. Burke [104187013] Printer: Caldwell, G. Probable date printed: 1829
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > True and genuine account of Murdoch Currie [104187018] Probable date printed: 1840
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > True and genuine account of Murdoch Currie [104187094] Probable date printed: 1840
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners > Execution and awful confession of Edward Robertson, and Matthew M'Queen [104187162] Printer: Saunders, John (Printer) Date printed: 1844

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Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Executions and executioners

Executions and executioners
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Chapbooks printed in Scotland
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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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Person / organisation:	Cumming, John (Publisher) [Publisher]
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