A Complete History Of The Lives And Robberies Of The Most Notorious Highwaymen Footpads Shoplifts And Cheats Of Both Sexes Captain Alexander Smith by Captain Alexander Smith, Arthur Lawrence Hayward 9781315015637, 1315015633 instant download after payment.

This collection is a facsimile reprint of five exceptional books that provide fascinating insights into subversive movements from the sixteenth through to the eighteenth centuries. These volumes will be of interest to researchers in sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century history and also to those studying literature in these periods.

This set includes the following volumes:

Volume 1: The Elizabethan Underworld - a Collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads

Volume 2: The English Rogue - described in the life of Meriton Latroon a witty extravagant being a complete history of the most eminent cheats of both sexes

Volume 3: A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes

Volume 4: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates - from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence to the present year

Volume 5: Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals - who have been condemned and executed for murder, the highway, housebreaking, street robberies, coining or other offences

SO HERE IT IS! VOLUME 3

A Complete History of the Highwaymen discloses the most secret and barbarous murders, unparalleled robberies, notorious thefts and unheard of cheats, setting them in a true light and exposing them to public view for the common benefit of mankind. The accounts and confessions are drawn from imprisoned villains who awaited their fate at the gallows.

This reprint makes available the 1926 reissue of Captain Smith's fifth edition and includes an introduction by Arthur L. Hayward, which sets the accounts in the appropriate historical context.