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• Murder found out, and cruelty rewarded : Being a true and faithful narrative, containing the history of Richard Sutton and sally miles, near Dartmouth, in Devonshire. Contents. I. An accont of their families, with the animosity which subsisted between them. II. Their parents disapprove of their children's love, but they meet by stealth. III. Richard leaves his father, runs away and robs him; sends a letter to sally, who goes to him. IV. Sally is with child, and Richard leaves her and is gone for several months. V. He gets into bad company, and acquainted with another young woman. VI. Returns with an intent to murder sally, finds her brought to bed. VII. She goes with him, and in a wood he takes away the child under pretence of carrying it to nurse, and murders it. VIII. Sally continues in the wood in great terror for several days. IX. A dog brings a child's head into the town, and by his means the remains of the child are found. X. Sally is taken, who declares this, and all the knows concerning the murder. XI. She is committed to take her trial, and search is made after sutton. XII. He is detected by the same dog, brought before a magistrate and committed. XIII. Tried, cast and sentenced. His behaviour. XIV. His execution. The horror of his mind. His body delivered to the surgeons. XV. Sally is received by her brother and sister, conclusion
  Published: (1785)
• A True and particular account of the cruel and inhuman murder, that was committed by one Susanna Morton, aged 23 years, on her bastard child, with the assistance of one James Preston, aged 70, who were both executed on Thursday last, at Derby, together with their last dying words and confessions; likewise the most remarkable and shocking account of Ann Hoon, aged 24 years, for the murder of her infant child, about 14 months old, by throwing it into a tub of water, in order to surrender herself up for execution, on account of her being threatened with a prosecution for breaking down a rail or two of a fencing belonging to a gentleman's plantation in the neighbourhood, she being short of wood to heat her oven, and could not bear the thoughts of being parted from her child whom she was so fond of. Also an account of the murder of Hannah Oldfield, by Job Ward, her fellow servant, by giving her arsenic, for the purpose of procuring abhortion, she being with child by him
  Published: (1796)
• Horrid murder! A full, true, and particular account of a most barbarous and inhuman murder : Committed on the body of Mrs. Cox, in Garden-street, in the Parish of St. George in the East, by Mary Benson, alias Mrs. Phipoe, who was tried at the Old Bailey about two years ago, for extorting a bond for two thousand pounds, from Mr. Curtois, of Oxendon-street, and attempting to murder him
  Published: (1797)
• The Remarkable trial of Miss Mary Laws, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire : Who poisoned her father Sir W. Laws, two brothers, and a sister, after she had been seven years at a boarding-school at Aylesbury.-Also an account of her last dying words and confession at the place of execution, in Aylesbury Market-Place. Together with an account of a sermon which was preached on the occasion. Likewise an excellent prayer which she composed a short time before her execution
  Published: (1740)
• A Dreadful warning to all wicked people : Shewing how one Mr. John Bagley, the son of Edward Bagley, Esquire; of New-castle, was suddenly struck dead, for his wickedness; by a spirit in a dreadful shape, which is discribed in the book. With the pious exhortation, by the Rev. Dr. Bartlet, upon the occasion
  by: Bartlet
  Published: (1780)