Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 3

A window into the blood-stained streets of 18th-century England, this volume assembles the actual trial records, confessions, and final moments of the era's most notorious criminals. Compiled by prison inspector Arthur Hayward from original 1735 sources, these pages deliver history at its most raw and unflinching: highwaymen who held coaches at gunpoint, murderers who spoke their final words from the scaffold, housebreakers whose elaborate schemes collapsed under the weight of evidence. The accounts are told in the language of the time, which modern readers will find shocking in its casual cruelty and prejudice. What emerges is not mere sensation, but a disturbing portrait of an age when punishment was spectacle and the noose was public entertainment. For readers of true crime, social history, and anyone drawn to the darker corners of the human story.