“Who, ere he went to heaven,

Domiciled in Dials Seven!”—G. Daniel’s “Democritus In London.”

[2] “Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor.”

CONTENTS.

[DIVISION I.]
“Cocks” or “Catchpennies,” Street Drolleries, &c.
PAGE
Horrid Murder committed by a Young Man on a Young Woman[a]
Cruel and Inhuman Murder committed upon the body of Captain Lawson[b]
Life, Trial and Execution of James Ward[c]
Shocking Rape and Murder of two Lovers[d]
Full Particulars of this Dreadful Murder[1]
Committal of W. Thompson for the Murder of his Wife[2]
A Remarkable Punishment of Murder[3]
The Life of the Man that was Hanged, but is now Alive[4]
The Liverpool Tragedy[5]
Massacre of Passengers and Crew, &c.[6]
Full Particulars of the Horrible Great Fire in London[7]
An Account of the Fatal Thunderstorm[8]
The Scarborough Tragedy[9]
An Extraordinary Wager of £5,000[12]
Funny Doings in this Neighbourhood[13]
The Love Letter, or a Married Man Caught in a Trap[14]
All Found out at Last[15]
The Yorkshire Knight[16]
Account of the Faithful Lovers[17]
Full Account of the Dreadful Quarrel, &c.[18]
An Account of the Dreadful Apparition to Henry ——[19]
Dreadful Catastrophe in this Neighbourhood[20]
The Secrets Revealed of Lord and Lady ——[21]
Elopements Extraordinary[22]
Funny Love Affair and Elopement[23]
Wonderful Judgment on a Blasphemer[24]
Strange Warning to a Publican[25]
Apparition to Discover a Hidden Murder[26]
Particulars of a well-known Fortune Teller[27]
Fortune Telling and its Results[28]
A Minister in a Trance for four days and nights[29]
The Female Sleep-Walker[30]
Dialogue between Death and a Sinner[31]
The Railway to Heaven[32]
Railroad to Hell[33]
Pretty Maidens Beware[34]
The Pretty Maid and Amorous Squire[35]
The “Taking off” of Prince Albert’s Inexpressibles[36]
Battle of Pea Soup[37]
The greatest old —— in this neighbourhood[38]
Old Mother Clifton[39]
Sale of a Wife[40]
The Perpetual Almanack[41]
The Far Famed Fairy Tale[42]
Teasing made Easy for the Ladies[43]
The Tradesman’s Hymn[44]
The Register of the Manor of Dunmow[45]
The Rent Day, or Black Monday[46]
How to Cook a Wife[47]
Alarming Sacrifice! Sale by Auction[48]
The Genuine Thing, or Last of the Cocks[49]
Blank Leaves for Mounting other Examples of Street Literature
[DIVISION II.]
Broadsides on the Royal Family, Political Litanies, &c.
Our King is a true British Sailor[53]
King William IV. and his Ministers[54]
Queen Victoria[55]
Coronation of Queen Victoria[56]
Sailor Jack and the Queen[57]
The Queen’s Marriage[58]
Attempt to Assassinate the Queen and Albert[59]
Accouchement of Her Majesty—Birth of a Princess[60]
Queen’s Wants at Childbirth, &c.[61]
A Stranger in Her Majesty’s Bedroom—Boy Jones again![62]
Mr. Ferguson and Queen Victoria[63]
Accouchement of the Majesty—Birth of Prince of Wales[64]
A New Song on the Birth of the Prince of Wales[65]
The Owdham Chap’s Visit to the Queen[66]
Opening of the Royal Exchange[67]
Prince of Wales’s Marriage[68]
A Scene in the Election—a Farce![69]
Universal Spelling Book[70]
Dialogue and Song on the Times[71]
John Bull v. the Pope’s Bull[72]
A Political Catechism[73]
The Famine Fast Day[74]
New Form of Prayer and Belief[75]
A Political Litany on the Times[76]
Political Litany on Present Parliament[77]
Derbyites, Dizzyites, and Adullumites[78]
A New Litany on Reform[79]
The Coming Election—a Conversation between Bill Gladstone and Ben Dizzy[80]
A Political Thanksgiving, for the Victory gained by the Liberals, and the Defeat of the Tories!![81]
Belief and Commandments on the Rights of Women[82]
Political and Reform Alphabet[83]
A Litany on the Irish Church Question[84]
A Litany on the Irish Land Question[85]
The New Intended Reform Bill[86]
The New Act of Parliament[87]
The New Streets Act[88]
The Poor Law Catechism[89]
The Soldier’s Catechism[90]
The Drunkard’s Catechism[91]
New Beer House Act[92]
Conversation of Nelson—Battle of Waterloo[93]
New Song on the Times—The Agony Bill[94]
Repeal of the Corn Laws—Opening of the Ports[95]
Liberation of O’Connell—A Song on the Times[96]
A New Song on Byng and Burdett[97]
Fleetwood Strickland and Reform Triumphant—Peterloo[98]
The State of Great Britain—Song of the Election[99]
Death of Wellington[100]
The Fall of Sebastopol—Battle of Alma[101]
The Nightingale of the East—Battle of Inkerman[102]
Sebastopol Arose—Little Lord John[103]
To the Memory of Cobden—Kearsage and the Alabama[104]
Dizzy’s Lament: Oh, dear! Oh, dear! what shall I do?[105]
Battle of Freedom and Reform[106]
The Great Reform Meeting[107]
When we get Johnny’s Reform[108]
Freedom and Reform[109]
The Liberal Majority of 110[110]
The Reform Demonstration[111]
Reform Meeting at Blackheath[112]
The Fenians are Coming[113]
Awful Explosion in Clerkenwell[114]
Sunday Trading Bill[115]
Southwark Election—Odger and Victory[116]
Blank Leaves for other Examples
[DIVISION III.]
A Collection of “Ballads on a Subject.”
The Female Husband[119]
Shakespeare’s House[120]
The Bloomer Costume[121]
Manchester’s an altered Town—Preston Guild[122]
Prophecy for 1850—Grace Darling[123]
Sayer’s and Heenan’s Fight for Championship[124]
Accident on the Ice in Regent’s Park[125]
Foreigners in England[126]
What shall we do for meat?[127]
Fifteen Shillings a week[128]
The Great Agricultural Show[129]
The Windham Lunacy Case[130]
The Old Marquis and his Wife[131]
Marriage of the Lady and her Groom[132]
Yelverton Marriage case[133]
The Naughty Lord and Gay Lady[134]
Strike of the Journeymen Tailors[135]
Wonderful Mr. Spurgeon[136]
A Night in a London Workhouse[137]
The Ghost of Woburn Square[138]
The Wicked Woman of Chigwell[139]
Mary Newell, the Artful Girl of Pimlico[140]
The She-He Barman of Southwark[141]
Beautiful for Ever,—So much for Madame Rachel[142]
Funny Doings in the Convent[143]
The Dunmow Fitch of Bacon[144]
Last Dying Speech of the Lord Mayor’s Show[145]
International Boat Race[146]
Ladies New Fashioned Petticoats[147]
Suppression of the Crinoline[148]
Downfall of the Chignons[149]
Dandy Horse, or The Wonderful Velocipede[150]
The Lord Mayor’s Show[152]
Opening of the Viaduct[152]
Cabmen and their New Flags[153]
The Funny Divorce Case[154]
Brighton Volunteer Review[155]
Frolicsome Parson Outwitted[156]
The Funny He-she Ladies![157]
Blank Leaves for other Examples
[DIVISION IV.]
The “Gallows” Literature of the Streets.
Life and Execution of Sir John Oldcastle (1417)[161]
Dying Speeches and Execution of Ballard and others[162]
” Salisbury and others[163]
Execution of Ballard, &c.[164]
” of Luke Hutton[165]
” of the Conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot[166]
” of Sir Walter Raleigh[167]
” of Sir Thomas Armstrong[168]
Trial and Execution of Nevison, the Highwayman[169]
” of James Lowry[170]
” of John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffryes[171]
” of Six Malefactors at Tyburn[172]
” of John Austen for a Cruel Murder[173]
Trial and Sentences of all the Prisoners, and an Account of the Pillory of John Lingard for Perjury[174]
Trial and Execution of John Hogan for Murder[175]
” of Joseph Richards for Murder[176]
Execution of Six Unfortunate Malefactors, and the Barbarous Execution and Burning of Phœbe Harris for Coining Silver[177]
Trials and Sentences of all the prisoners, together with the Execution of 15 Unfortunate Convicts[178]
Execution of Eight Convicts at the Old Bailey[179]
———— of Five Unfortunate Sailors[180]
Trial and Execution of Clinch and Mackley for the Wicked Murder of Mr. Fryer, Islington Fields[181]
Court-Martial, Sentence, and Execution of Richard Parker, for the Mutiny at the Nore[182]
Trial and Execution of Mary Nott, for the Murder of a French Emigrant, and Richard Ludman, for the Murder of George Hebner in a brothel[183]
Execution of James Nesbett, for the Murder of Mr. Parker and his Housekeeper[184]
Sentences all the Prisoners at the Old Bailey, 11th September, 1822[185]
Copy of Verses on the Death of Ann Williams, who was barbarously murdered by her sweetheart, W. Jones, in Derbyshire, July 1823[186]
Confession and Execution of John Thurtell, for the Murder of Weare, at Hertford Gaol[187]
Trial, Confession, and Execution C. T. White, the bookseller, for Arson, and Amelia Roberts, for Robbery[188]
Confession and Execution of Wm. Corder, for the Murder of Maria Marten in the Red Barn[189]
Trial, Sentence, Confession, and Execution of Bishop and Williams, the Burkers[190-1]
—— of James Greenacre, for the Edgeware-road Murder[192]
—— of Courvoisier, for the Murder of Lord Wm. Russell[193]
—— of Robert Blakesley, for the Murder of Jas. Burden[194]
—— of Daniel Good, for the Murder of Jane Jones[195]
—— of T. B. Rush, for the Murder of Mr. Jermy[196]
—— of J. G. Wilson, for the Murder of a Wife, two children, and the Maid at Liverpool[197]
—— Manning and his Wife, for the Murder of Patrick O’Connor[198]
The Esher Tragedy, Six Children Murdered by their Mother, Mrs. Brough, Nurse to the Prince of Wales[199]
Execution of William Cogan, for the Murder of his Wife[200]
—— of G. Gardner for Shooting his Sweetheart[201]
Life, Trial and Execution of W. G. Youngman, the Walworth Murderer[202]
The Wigan Murder.—Examination and Confession of John Healey[203]
Execution of Priscilla Biggadike for the Wilful Murder of her Husband[204]
—— of Frederick Baker, the Alton Murderer[205]
—— of M’Conville and Dolan[206]
—— of Samuel Wright, for Murder of Maria Green[207]
—— of James Clitheroe, for Murder[208]
Horrid Murder of a Gentleman in a Railway Carriage[209]
Murder in a Railway Train[210]
Chase, Capture, and Arrival of Muller, for the Murder of Mr. Briggs in a Railway Train[211]
Execution and Confession of Muller[212]
—— of James Longhurst[213]
—— of Miles Weatherhill, the Young Weaver, and his Sweetheart, Sarah Bell[214]
Trial and Sentence of Miss Constance Kent[215]
—— of Forward, for the Murder of Three Children and his Wife[216]
Execution of the Five Pirates of the Flowery Land[217]
Condemnation and Execution of Leigh for the Murder at Brighton[218]
Barbarous Murder of a Child by a Schoolmistress[219]
Farewell to the World of E. Bishop, under Sentence of Death, for the Murder of Alfred Cartwright[220]
Lamentations of J. Mapp under Sentence of Death in Shrewsbury Gaol[221]
Lamentations of H. Lingley, Sentenced to Death for Murder

“For that cruel murder he’s doomed to die

On Norwich fatal sad gallows high.”

[222]
Trial, Confession and Execution of Alice Holt, for the Wicked Murder of her own Mother[223]
Cruel and Inhuman Murder of a little Boy by his Father[224]
Lamentation and Confession of J. E. Jeffery, of Bristol

“I am doomed to die, my glass is run,

For the murder of my darling son.”

[225]
Murder of a Wife near Hastings[226]
Lamentation of John Fletcher and Ann Lawrence, who now lie under Sentence of Death at Maidstone Gaol[227]
Execution of Michael Barrett for the Wilful Murder of Sarah Jane Hodgkinson, one of the Sufferers of the Clerkenwell Explosion[228]
—— of Allen, Gould, and Larkins, for the Murder of Sergeant Brett[229]
The Last Moments and Confession of Wm. Sheward[230]
Execution of John Devine, for the Murder of Joseph Duck at Marylebone[231]
—— of Martin Brown, for the Diabolical Murder on Newmarket Hill, near Lewes[232]
—— of A. Mackay, for the Murder of Mrs. Grossmith[233]
Shocking Murder of a Wife and Six Children[234]
Execution of John Gregson, for the Murder of his Wife at Liverpool[235]
—— of F. Hinson, for the Murder of Maria Death[236]
—— of J. Rutterford, at Bury St. Edmunds, for the Murder of J. Hight[237]
Blank Leaves for mounting other Examples of “Gallows Literature”

A COLLECTION
OF
“COCKS,” OR “CATCHPENNIES.”

“The common people are to be caught by the ears as one catches a pot by the handle.”