CRIME.
Capital punishment -- Its frequency -- An execution described --
Behaviour on the scaffold and way to execution -- Revival after
hanging -- 'Peine forte et dure' -- Hanging in chains --
Highwaymen -- Claude du Val lying in state -- Ned Wicks and Lord
Mohun -- Their swearing match -- A highwayman hanged --
Highwaymen in society -- Highway robberies -- Footpads --
Burglars -- John Hall -- Benefit of clergy -- Coining --
Pickpockets -- Robbery from children -- Perjury -- Sharpers --
Begging impostors -- Gipsies -- Constables -- Private detectives
-- Commercial frauds -- 'Society for the Reformation of Manners'
-- Statistics of their convictions -- The pillory -- Ducking
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