THE
NEWGATE CALENDAR
Introductory
and General Material
PREFACE
To the 1780 Edition
PREFACE
To Knapp and Baldwin's edition
The Preface
By John Osborn
APPENDIX I
Description of Newgate.
APPENDIX II
The Origin of the Gibbet in England
APPENDIX III
The Maiden, or Scottish Guillotine
APPENDIX IV
The Newgate Bellman
APPENDIX V.
The punishment of whipping in England, Russia, and France
APPENDIX VI.
Fleet Marriages
APPENDIX VII.
An account of the various modes of punishment for adultery, in distant nations.
APPENDIX VIII
The Jail Fever
APPENDIX IX
Torture
APPENDIX X
Swindling
APPENDIX XI
An Exposée of the whole system of GAMBLING, as practised
in the most notorious LONDON HELLS
APPENDIX XII
Coining
APPENDIX XIII
Pretended Ghosts
APPENDIX XIV
Witchcraft
APPENDIX XV
Voluntary punishment of Gentoo widows on the death of their husbands
APPENDIX XVI
Trial by ordeal of the Hindoos in the East
APPENDIX XVII
Chinese punishments
APPENDIX XVIII
Turkish Punishments inflicted on knavish butchers and bakers.
APPENDIX XIX
Benefit of clergy.
AN ACCOUNT OF
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
by John Osborne (1735)
STRICTURES ON
THE OBSERVATIONS OF MR. HOWARD
Respecting Prisons, and the Treatment of Prisoners
THE MILKMEN OF
LONDON
And Their Impositions upon the Public
THE GEMMEN OF THE WHIP
And their Misdemeanours
CONCLUDING
NOTE
To the Jackson 1795 edition.
CONCLUDING
NOTE
by the Editors.
