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• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (with commentary and supplementary material) (searchable HTML at oldbaileyonline.org)
• Resolutions of Parliament, touching delinquents and their compositions : Die Mercurii, 14 Martii, 1648. (Printed by John Field for Edward Husband, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1649), by England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)

• An act declaring what offences shall be adjudged treason. (Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Parliament of England, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleetstreet, at the sign of the Golden-dragon, near the Inner-temple, 1649), by England and Wales (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Capital Punishment Commission, together with the minutes of evidence, and appendix. (Government Printer, 1868), by Great Britain. Parliament. Capital Punishment Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (with commentary and supplementary material) (searchable HTML at oldbaileyonline.org)

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (with commentary and supplementary material) (searchable HTML at oldbaileyonline.org)

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• A history of the criminal law of England. (Macmillan, 1883), by James Fitzjames Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tort, crime, and police in mediaeval Britain; a review of some early law and custom (Williams and Norgate, 1917), by J. W. Jeudwine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tort, crime, and police in mediaeval Britain a review of some early law and custom (Williams and Norgate, 1917), by J. W. Jeudwine (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), by Sarah Tarlow (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), by Sarah Tarlow (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Verdict According to Conscience: Perspectives on the English Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985), by Thomas Andrew Green (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh, A Penal Exile in Australia, 1825-1844 (1929 text), by James Tucker (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Ralph Rashleigh (1952 text), by James Tucker (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Lives of the most remarkable criminals, who have been condemned and executed for murder, highway robberies, housebreaking, street robberies, coining, or other offences; from the year 1720 to the year 1735. Collected from original papers and authentic memoirs. (Reeves and Turner, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of criminal jurisprudence; or, historical facts, containing the lives and trials of the most remarkable characters who have violated the laws of their country. With an introductory and concluding chapter to youth on the usefulness of early imbibing principles of morality and religion. (Printed for the author, 1846), by William C. Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The real Horatio Bottomley (Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., 1923), by Henry J. Houston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forging his chains : the autobiography of George Bidwell, the famous ticket-of-leave man ... (Bidwell Pub. Co., 1890), by George Bidwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe description of the life of Dr. Lambe (J. Barker, Printer, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden., 1800), by Isabelle Brown, James Caulfield, James Barker, and Francis Bacon Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of remarkable trials and notorious characters. From "Half-hanged Smith," 1700-to Oxford who shot at the Queen, 1840 ... (J. C. Hotten, 1874), by Lionel Benson and Hablot Knight Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences, ed. by Arthur Lawrence Hayward (Gutenberg ebook)

• Lives of twelve bad women : illustrations and reviews of feminine turpitude set forth by impartial hands / ed. by Arthur Vincent. (L.C. Page, 1897), by Arthur Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Miss Mary Blandy's Own Account of the Affair Between Her and Mr. Cranstoun, From the Commencement of Their Acquaintance in the Year 1746 to the Death Of her Father in August 1751, with All the Circumstances Leading to That Unhappy Event (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752), by Mary Blandy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of ****, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar, a Reputed Native of Formosa, Written by Himself, in Order to be Published After His Death (London: Printed for R. Davis, et al., 1765), by George Psalmanazar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A historical sketch of Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the crown of England (The Knickerbocker Press, 1902), by Edwin Henes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of Thomas Chatterton : with an essay on the Rowley poems by Walter W. Skeat, and a memoir by Edward Bell (Bell and Daldy, 1871), by Thomas Chatterton, Edward Bell, and Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Savage, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Mary Lamb (W.H. Allen & Co., 1883), by Anne Gilchrist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mary Lamb, by Anne Gilchrist (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Mr. Richard Savage: Who was Condemn'd with Mr. James Gregory, the last Sessions at the Old Baily, for the Murder of Mr. James Sinclair, at Robinson's Coffee-house at Charing-Cross., contrib. by Mr. Beckingham and Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg ebook)

• Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Carolyn Conley (PDF at Ohio State)

• Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Intentions (in French), by Oscar Wilde, trans. by Hugues Rebell, contrib. by Charles Grolleau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Στοχασμοί (in Greek), by Oscar Wilde, trans. by Alex G. Marpoutzoglou (Gutenberg ebook)

• Capt. Cranstoun's Account of the Poisoning the Late Mr. Francis Blandy, of Henley upon Thames, Oxfordshire (London: Printed for R. Richards, ca. 1752), contrib. by Mary Blandy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palmer's life & trial (Ward and Lock, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Triumph of truth in an exact and impartial relation of the life and conversation of Col. Iames Turner, which he imparted to an intimate friend a little before his execution : to which is added his deportment and discourses in prison, the manner of his execution and burial : with other occurrences never yet made publique, and now published as a seasonable warning for others to avoid such strange miscarriages. (London : Printed by W.G. for Nath. Brock and Hen. Marsh, 1663) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Genuine life of John Rann, otherwise sixteen-strings Jack : who is now under sentence of death, for robbing Dr. William Bell, Chaplain to Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia, of his watch and money, on the highway ... together with anecdotes of Miss Roche, and several other persons connected with Rann. (London :, 1775) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Adventures of Richard Turpin, a Most Notorious Highwayman: Comprising a Particular Account of All His Robberies, His Ride to York, and His Trial and Execution for Horse-Stealing, April 7th, 1739 (London: W. S. Fortey, n.d.)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life of Dick Turpin (Devonport: S. and J. Keys, ca. 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonel Thomas Blood, crown-stealer, 1618-1680 (Yale University Press, 1911), by Wilbur Cortez Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonel Thomas Blood, crownstealer 1618-1680 ([Genesee press], 1910), by Wilbur Cortez Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonel Thomas Blood, Crown-stealer, 1618-1680, by Wilbur Cortez Abbott (Gutenberg ebook)

• Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux (Printed by W. Clowes, 1819), by James Hardy Vaux (page images at HathiTrust)

• The trial and life of Eugene Aram : several of his letters and poems, and his plan and specimens of an Anglo-Celtic lexicon : with copious notes and illustrations, an an engraved fac-simile of the handwriting of this very ingenious but ill-fated scholar. ([s.n.], 1842), by Michael Fryer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life, travels, exploits, frauds and robberies of Charles Speckman, alias Brown, who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday 23d of November, 1763, by Charles Speckman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life and Surprising Exploits of Jack Sheppard (Gutenberg ebook)

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