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Defoe, Daniel, 1661-1731

"Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes"

Of his entering the House of Mr. _Carter_, a
Mathematical Instrument Maker in _Wytch Street_, along with
_Anthony Lamb_ and _Charles Grace_, and robbing of Mr.
_Barton_, a Master Taylor who lodged therein, of Goods and
Bonds to the Value of near 300 l. Of his breaking and entering
the House of Mr. _Kneebone_, a Woollen-Draper, near the _New
Church_ in the _Strand_, in Company of _Joseph Blake_ alias
_Blewskin_ and _William Field_, and stealing Goods to the
Value of near 50 l. Of his robbing of Mr. _Pargiter_ on the
Highway near the Turnpike, on the Road _Hampstead_, along with
the said _Blewskin_. Of his robbing a Lady's Woman in her
Mistress's Coach on the same Road. Of his robbing also a Stage
Coach, with the said _Blewskin_, on the _Hampstead_ Road.
Likewise of his breaking the Shop of Mr. _Martin_ in
_Fleet-street,_ and stealing 3 silver Watches of 15 l. Value.
ALSO--
A particular Account of his rescuing his pretended Wife from
St. _Giles's_ Round House. Of the wonderful Escape himself
made from the said Round-House. Of the miraculous Escape he
and his said pretended Wife made together from _New-Prison_,
on the 25th of _May_ last. Of his surprizing Escape from the
Condemn'd Hold of _Newgate_ on the 31st of _August_: Together
with the true manner of his being retaken; and of his
Behaviour in _Newgate_, till the most astonishing, and never
to be forgotten Escape he made from thence, in the Night of
the 15th of October.


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