CRIMINAL RECORDER;

Biographical Sketches

OF

Notorious Public Characters;

Murderers,
Traitors,
Pirates,
Mutineers,

THE

Rioters,
Skarpers,

OR,

INCLUDING

Incendiaries, Highwaymen

Defrauders,

Footpads,
Pickpockets,
Swindlers,

AND OTHER NOTED PERSONS

WHO HAVE SUFFERED THE SENTENCE OF THE LAW FOK

CRIMINAL OFFENCES.

Embracing a Variety of

CURIOUS AND SINGULAR CASES, ANECDOTES, &c.
WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES:

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS INTLICTED
ON THOSE WHO TRANSGRESS THE LAWS OF
THEIR COUNTRY,

Housebreakers,
Coiners,

Receivers,
Extortioners,

With a Description of the Crimes by which those Punishments are
incurred, &c. alphabetically arranged under appropriate
Ileads, and illustrated with Portraits, and
other Engravings.

BY A STUDENT OF THE INNER TEMPLE

VOLUME THE FIRST.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JAMES CUNDEE, IVY-LANE;

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1811.