The annals of Newgate : or, Malefactors register : containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions and trials of the most notorious malefactors, who have suffered an ignominious death for their offences, viz., for parricide, murder, treason, robbery, burglary, piracy, coining, forgery and rapes, from the commitment of the celebrated John Sheppard, to the acquittal of the equally celebrated Margaret Caroline Rudd : including a period of fifty years and upwards, both in town and country : calculated to expose the deformity of vice, the infamy and punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the paths of virtue and intended as a beacon to warn the rising generation against the temptations, the allurements and the dangers of bad company : the former part extracted from authentic records and the histories and transactions of the modern convicts, communicated by the unhappy sufferers themselves, since the author has been appointed to his present office / by Mr. Villette.