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An act for establishing an health office, for securing the city and port of Philadelphia, from the introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases

Published 1799

Printed [by Samuel F. Bradford] at the office of the "True American

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A letter from a citizen of Port-Royal in Jamaica, to a citizen of New-York : Relating to some extraordinary measures, lately set on foot in that island

by Citizen of Port-Royal in Jamaica
Published 1756

Dublin: printed. London, re-printed for J. Scott, in Pater-noster-Row, W. Reeve, in Fleet-Street, and W. Bizet, in St. Clements-Church-Yard

“...Letter from a citizen of Port-Royal in Jamaica, to a citizen of New York...”

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Useful remarks : An essay upon remarkables in the way of wicked men. A sermon on the tragical end, unto which the way of twenty-six pirates brought them; at New Port on Rhode-Islan...

by Mather, Cotton
Published 1723

Printed and sold by T. Green

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A treatise on the commerce and police of the river Thames : Containing an historical view of the trade of the port of London; and suggesting means for preventing the depredations t...

by Colquhoun, Patrick
Published 1800

Printed for Joseph Mawman, in the Poultry, successor to Mr. Dilly. MDCCC. (H. Baldwin and Son, Printers, New Bridge-street.)

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The Lord's voice, crying to his people : in some extraordinary dispensations considered in a sermon, upon Micah VI. 9. Preached 27 d. 1 m. 1715. Occasioned by the terrible tragedie...

by Clap, Nathaniel
Published 1715

Printed by B. Green, sold at the booksellers shops

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Articles of agreement, made, concluded, and fully agreed upon, this, eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord 1776, and in the sixteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, ans so forth: between the several persons whose names are hereunto subscribed and seals affixed; for the well governing a society instituted in the town and port of Sandwich, in the county of Kent, for the benefit of widows, by the advice...

Published 1776

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Proposals towards raising a supplemental provision for the poor; and for the encouragement and increase of seamen within the bills of mortality : And at several towns and villages...

Published 1740

Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster-row

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A full and genuine history of the inhuman and unparrallell'd murders of Mr. William Galley, a Custom-House Officer at the Port of Southampton: and Mr. Daniel Chater, a Shoemaker, at Fordingbridge...

Published 1749

printed and sold by R. Walker. in the Little Old Bailey

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Sermons; in which are explained and enforced the religious, moral, and political virtues of freemasonry : Preached upon several occasions, before the provincial grand officers, and...

by Inwood, Jethro
Published 1799

Printed for the author, (by J. Delahoy, Deptford-Bridge,) and to be had at the Rectory House, Deptford, and of Crosby and Letterman, London

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The English Rogue revived : Or, The lives and actions of Jonathan Wild, thief-taker. Joseph Blake alias blueskin foot-pad and John Sheppard, house-breaker. Taken from several writi...

Published 1725

Printed by Dan. Pratt, over against York House in the Strand

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The genuine life of William Cox : the notorious robber, who was executed pursuant to his sentence, on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1773. For robbing Mr. John Kendrick, of bank-notes and cas...

Published 1774

printed for J. Long, Whitechappel

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The life and glorious actions of the most heroic and magnanimous Jonathan Wilde : generalissimo of the prig-forces in Great-Britain and Ireland. Introduced with the most Memorable...

Published 1725

printed for H. Whitridge, in Searle-Street by Lincolns-Inn Back-Gate

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The life of Patrick Madan : Exhibiting a Series of the most extraordinary Transactions, notorious Villanies, and wonderful Escapes, that ever happened to one Man. Comprizing a Seri...

Published 1781

printed for Alexander Hogg, Pater-Noster-Row, and sold by all the booksellers and news-carriers

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The narrative of Patrick Lyon : who suffered three months severe imprisonment in Philadelphia gaol; on merely a vague suspicion, of being concerned in the robbery of the Bank of Pe...

by Lyon, Patrick
Published 1799

Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey, at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street

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The life of James Aitken : commonly called John the Painter, an incendiary, who was tried at the Castle of Winchester, on Thursday the 7th day of March, 1777, and convicted of sett...

by Aitken, James
Published 1777

printed by J. Wilkes, sold by S. Crowder, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, Pater-Noster-Row, and T. Evans in the Strand

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The rump emissaries : Or, the loyal black-smith of Marlborough no Jesuit. Being A Faithful Account of the Artifices practised by the Standing Army of the Regicides to extirpate Lib...

by Houlbrook, William
Published 1744

printed for R. Montague, at the Book Ware-House in Wild-Street

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The trial of William Brodie : wright and cabinet maker in Edinburgh, and of George Smith grocer there, before the High Court of Justiciary, held at Edinburgh on Wednesday the 27th,...

by Brodie, William
Published 1788

printed for Charles Elliot, Parliament-Square; and sold by C. Elliot and T. Kay, No 332. Strand, London; and all Booksellers in Town and Country

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The sufferings of John Coustos : for free-masonry, and for his refusing to turn Roman catholic, in the inquisition at Lisbon; where he was sentenc'd, during four years to the galle...

by Coustos, John
Published 1746

printed by W. Strahan, for the author

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A view of the life, travels, and philanthropic labors of the late John Howard, Esquire L.L.D. F.R.S : By John Aikin, M.D. [Four lines of Latin from Seneca]

by Aikin, John
Published 1794

Printed for John Ormrod, by W.W. Woodward, at Franklin's Head, no. 41, Chesnut-Street

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A narrative of all the robberies, escapes, &c. of John Sheppard : giving an exact description of the manner of his wonderful escape from the castle in Newgate, and of the Methods h...

by Defoe, Daniel
Published 1724

printed and sold by John Applebee, a little below Bridewell-Bridge, in Black-Fryers

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