Publications of Alexander Smith

Author

• Smith, Alexander. The comical and tragical history of the lives and adventures of the most noted bayliffs in and about London and Westminster; from Oliver Cromwel's usurpation, to the death of Henry Boyte Marshals Court officer, who was kill'd by a smith with a red-hot iron. Discovering their Stratagems, and Tricks. Wherein the whole Art and Mistery of Bumming is fully expos'd: With a Description of the Minters Cavalcade when they catch a Bayliff within their Liberties, and the Oath they Administer to him at their Treating gratis with Mint Water. And particularly the Life of Jacob Broad of merry Memory. Written b y Captain Alexander Smith. London: printed for Samuel Briscoe, at the Bell Savage on Ludgate-Hill; and at the Sun against John's Coffee-House in Swithen's Alley, in Cornhil, 1723. ESTC No. N14766. Grub Street ID 4529.
• Smith, Alexander. Memoirs of the life and times, of the famous Jonathan Wild, together with the history and lives, of modern rogues, several of ’em his acquaintance, that have been executed before and since his death, for the high-way, pad, shop-lifting, house-breaking, picking of pockets, and impudent robbing in the streets, and at court. Never before made publick. Writen by Capt. Alexander Smith, author of the History of the high-way-men in three volumes. Royal concubines and gamesters. Intermixt with strange discoveries of several unheard of barbarous murders; all taken out of th records of Newgate, continued down to the present times. Adorn’d with cuts. London: printed for Sam. Briscoe, at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill. And sold by J. Jackson, in the Pall Mall. and J. Crokatt, and T. Worrall, in Fleet-street, 1726. ESTC No. N483637. Grub Street ID 359229.