THE HISTORY
OF
JOHN GREGG
AND HIS FAMILY
OF
ROBBERS AND MURDERERS
Who took up their Abode in a Cave near to the Sea Side, in Clovaley in Devonshire, where they liv'd Twenty five Years without so much as once going to visit any City or Town.
How they Robbed above One Thousand Persons, and murdered, and eat all whom they robbed.
How at last they were happily discover'd by a pack of Blood hounds; and how John Gregg, his Wife, Eight Sons, Six Daughters, Eighteen Grand Sons and Fourteen Grand daughters were all seized and executed, by being Cast alive into three Fires, and were burnt.
Licensed and entered according to Order.
This Chap-book is precisely similar to the History of Sawney Beane, who lived temp. James I., only the names and locality have been changed. The lovers of horrors can be fully gratified by reading Sawney Beane's life, either in Captain Charles Johnson's "History of the Lives and Actions of the most famous Highwaymen, Street Robbers," etc., 8vo (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 33-37, or vol. i. p. 161 of "The Terrific Registers."