PREFACE
To the 1780 Edition

PREFACE
To Knapp and Baldwin's edition

APPENDIX I
Description of Newgate.

APPENDIX II
The Origin of the Gibbet in England

APPENDIX III
The Maiden, or Scottish Guillotine

APPENDIX IV
The Newgate Bellman

APPENDIX V.
The punishment of whipping in England, Russia, and France

APPENDIX VI.
Fleet Marriages

APPENDIX VII.
An account of the various modes of punishment for adultery, in distant nations.

APPENDIX VIII
The Jail Fever

APPENDIX IX
Torture

APPENDIX X
Swindling

APPENDIX XI
An Exposée of the whole system of GAMBLING, as practised in the most notorious LONDON HELLS

APPENDIX XII
Coining

APPENDIX XIII
Pretended Ghosts

APPENDIX XIV
Witchcraft

APPENDIX XV
Voluntary punishment of Gentoo widows on the death of their husbands

APPENDIX XVI
Trial by ordeal of the Hindoos in the East

APPENDIX XVII
Chinese punishments

APPENDIX XVIII
Turkish Punishments inflicted on knavish butchers and bakers.

APPENDIX XIX
Benefit of clergy.

STRICTURES ON THE OBSERVATIONS OF MR. HOWARD
Respecting Prisons, and the Treatment of Prisoners

THE MILKMEN OF LONDON
And Their Impositions upon the Public

THE GEMMEN OF THE WHIP
And their Misdemeanours