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Full and compleat history of the lives, robberies, and murders, of all the most notorious highwaymen, that have been in England, Scotland, France and Ireland, from the reign of William the Conqueror, to this time

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Antiquarian books of Scotland > Crime & punishment > Full and compleat history of the lives, robberies, and murders, of all the most notorious highwaymen, that have been in England, Scotland, France and Ireland, from the reign of William the Conqueror, to this time > (1)

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Full and compleat history of the lives, robberies, and murders, of all the most notorious highwaymen, that have been in England, Scotland, France and Ireland, from the reign of William the Conqueror, to this time
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Description	Beginning with Thomas Dun, Robin Hood and Little John, Sir John Falstaff, Captain Hind, the Golden Farmer, Nevisson, Whitney and above 100 more. Also giving a more full account ... of the robberies committed by Benjamin Child, John Hawkins, and George Sympson ... Concluding with the life and robberies of the famous Cartouche in France; and also the robberies, and remarkable actions of John Molhoni and James Carrick ... / The whole being faithfully collected out of the best histories, records, trials, ordinaries, accounts, and manuscripts, by I.W..
Shelfmark	ABS.1.90.183
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1769 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Glasgow > Glasgow (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Thieves Robberies Murders (deaths) Murderers Histories (literature genre)
Person / organisation:	J. Gilmour and Son [Bookseller]
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