FOOTNOTES:
[217:1] The most ingenious and painstaking attempt of this kind was that made by some Thugs awaiting sentence in India, who sawed through the bars of their prison with packthread smeared with oil and coated with fine stone-dust.
[220:1] Taken from the text of Ainsworth's novel, which gives a clear and picturesque account. It is also accurate, and based on the best accounts extant.
[221:1] Quoted from the "Tyburn Calendar," the wording of which is copied in all other accounts.
[223:1] The following stanzas were written at the time, and appeared in the British Journal of Nov. 28, 1724:
"Thornhill, 'tis thine to gild with fame
The obscure and raise the humble name;
To make the form elude the grave,
And Sheppard from oblivion save.