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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 18 pages with 3 illustrations + 6 plates (1 colour) + 1 large plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume of Archaeologia, Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 25 x 30 cms. Category: Archaeologia; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 18 pages, 3 illustrations, 6 plates, 1 large plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume of Archaeologia, Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 25 x 30 cms. Category: Archaeologia; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

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One page, octavo. Very good. Docketed at head 'Ordinary of Newgate', and with small fragment of printed slip laid down in top left-hand corner (not affecting text). Reads 'My dear Sir, | A friend of mine lays claim to the Arrandale Peerage & estates - do you happen to possess any documents of any kind which can throw light upon the subject & assist him in the prosecution of his claims - He claims I believe from Lord John Johnstone who was in Newgate for Treason about the year 1700, but was never convicted - Yrs. very truly | H S Cotton'. Addressed to 'William Upcott Esq. | London Institution' on verso of second leaf of bifolium, which carries a clear impression of Cotton's crest in a seal of black wax.

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LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1717 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 147 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 147.

This document, signed by George IV as Prince Regent, and by the former Prime Minister Lord Sidmouth as Home Secretary, relates to Matthias Maher (1798-1865), a Royal Navy officer who was twice tried at the Old Bailey on a charge of forgery. On the first occasion, 6 May 1818, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity; and removed to the criminal asylum in St George's Fields. Maher was found sound of mind as the present document reveals by Sir George Leman Tuthill (17721835) and Edward Wright (c.1788-1859), the latter to die of disgrace in Australia. He was tried a second time on 15 September 1819, when he was convicted and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to transportation for life, and he left England on the Earl St Vincent on 12 April 1820, arriving in Australia on 16 August 1820. In Australia Mathias served as a Constable in D'Arcy Wentworth's police force at Parroquet Hill, helping to suppress the Parramatta bushrangers. 2pp, foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded twice. Good firm signature of the Prince Regent at head of first page: 'George P R.' Above this, in a small hand: 'In the Name and on the Behalf of His Majesty.' Royal Seal under paper in left-hand margin of first page. Signed at end of document by the former Prime Minister Lord Sidmouth, now Home Secretary: 'Sidmouth'. Beneath this, at the foot of the second page: 'Receid 7 August 1819 the body of the abovenamed Matthias Maher | W. E. Hardy, for Mr Brown Keeper of Newgate'. (William Erasmus Hardy (c.1773-1838) was 'clerk of the papers in the gaol of Newgate'.) Forty-line document, in a secretarial hand, addressed 'To Our Trusty and Wellbeloved The Right Worshipful The Resident and Treasurer and the Worshipful The Governors of Bethlem Hospital.' The document begins: 'Whereas at a Sessions holden at the Old Bailey on the 6th day of May 1818 Matthias Maher stood Indicted for several Felonies and Forgeries, and upon [his] Arraignment thereon, was found by [a] Jury, lawfully Impannelled for the purpose to be Insane, so that he could not be tried upon the said Indictment, and was therefore [] ordered to be kept in strict Custody, in Our Gaol of Newgate until Our Pleasure should be known. []' The document states that on 14 May 1818 Maher was 'removed to the Building erected in St. George's Fields, in the County of Surrey, situate on the side of Bethlem Hospital, for the better Care and Custody of Insane Persons charged with or Convicted of Criminal Offences', and that 'George L. Tuthill Esqr, M.D. and Edward Wright Esqr M.D.' have now certified that 'Maher is become Sane'. At foot of first page and endorsed on reverse of second leaf: 'Warrant to remove Matthias Maher back to the Gaol of Newgate from the Criminal Lunatic Asylum in St. George's Fields.' From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.

[ii], 6pp. Small 4to. Disbound. Woodcut of a hanging man with two cheering people on titlepager verso. Contemp. ink numbers on upper right margin of each page. v.g. ESTC R12550, BL & Guildhall only in UK; Folger, Huntington, UCLA, & Yale in US. The variant with line 15 of title reading 'officers or the pri-'. A fascinating newsbook reporting on the 31 prisoners who were condemned to be executed at Newgate on December 13, 1641. Most significantly, it reports on seven priests - Abbot, alias Rivers, Edmond Fryer, Peter Wilford, Walter Coleman, John Hammond, Edmond Canon, and Wilmore, alias Wigmore or Turner - who were all charged with treason and sentenced to be 'hang'd, drawn, and quartered'. Edmund Canon and Edmond Fryar were both elderly and infirm; the author describes Fryer as 'very feeble, in so much that he could scarce go at all', and wrote that Canon 'desired that he might have a Chaire to sit down, in regard of his age', which was granted, though both men were still handed the harshest possible punishment. John Hammond was allegedly in service to the Queen Henrietta Maria, and she, along with the French Ambassador, played an important role in gaining temporary reprieve for the men. Following the sentencing on 8th December, the Queen instructed the French Ambassador to petition her husband Charles I for a reprieve for the priests. However, tensions between the King and Parliament were already high, especially in regards to the ruler's suspected Catholic sympathies. Charles refused to grant any reprieves without the support of Parliament, so the matter was quietly taken to the House of Lords which then brought the matter to the House of Commons. It was ultimately decided that Edmond Canon and Peter Wilford would be spared and the rest would be executed as planned, but the decision was not confirmed until the intended execution day, resulting in a delay. When the news broke that the priests' executions were delayed or halted altogether, the crowd which had formed to watch the public executions, began to riot. The other prisoners who were to be hanged that day joined in the rioting, though they were eventually brought under control and their executions were carried out the following day. Among the non-religious criminals condemned to death were 'Charles James, an hansome gentile young man. convicted for Robery and Burglary'; the highway-men Thomas Randall, Edward Dawson, and Henry Smith; Mathew Chenering and Elizabeth Lee 'Both of them, for stealing of a cloak a genleman, (as she said) was to lie with her the said Eliz. Lee, and the meane while Chenering conveyed a way the cloake'; Edward Hartford 'a Cookes Boy, sometimes servant at the Castle in Pye-Corner, for Rape, and Buggery'; and Margaret Heatherfall 'for picking of a pocket: but by reason shee is with child, she is reprieved'. It is interesting to note the number of criminals who were considered 'a fine Scholar', 'a pretty Youth', 'a young proper man', or otherwise, proving that a life of crime did not only appeal to the underclasses. A wonderful document highlighting the wide range of capital crimes, and the individuals who were convicted of them, in Early Modern England.

Disbound, [8]pp., fol., pinholes suggesting previously bound into a collection of similar items, ageing, but text clear so good condition, small remnants of tipping on in corners of p.[8] blank. Copies apparently distributed among members of the Common-Council. It commences, "The Committee for rebuidling the Goal [sic] of Newgate, did this day deliver into this Court, a Report in Writing under their Hands respecting the Debts now remaining due on Account of the Gaol and Infirmary, and also the Sessions House [.]". There follows the Report concluded by the names of the members of the "Committee for rebuilding the Gaol of Newgate" (pp.2-3), and concluded with two pages of moneys received and and paid. The rebuilding was triggered by the Gordon Riots. See Images. No other originals traced but it appears to be Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 12218. Many reproductions are listed on WorldCat.