Hone's interesting history of the memorable blood conspiracy carried on by S. Mac Daniel, J. Berry, J. Egan, and J. Salmon, thief-takers and their trials and sentences in 1756, for procuring two boys to commit a robbery, in order to get the reward for their conviction and obtaining an innocent lad to be executed, having sworn away the lives of seventy poor creatures and received £1,720 from the treasury for their blood-money : also the reasons for which they were suffered to escape the gallows and illustrative legal and critical notes and observations applicable to present circumstances.