[A warning for all wicked livers] By the example of Richard Whitfield, and M. Gibs who were two notorious offenders, and both of one company, which two men made a daily practise, and got their livings by robbing and stealing both on the high-ways, and in any other places where they came, but were at last taken, apprehended and condemned to dye for robbing of a coach, & murdering of a captains man at Shooters-Hil, in Kent, some five or six miles from London, and for that offence and others, Gibs was prest to death at Maidstone in Kent, and Whitfield was hanged in chains on Shooters-Hil, where he did the bloody deed, the 27th. of March, 1655. The manner how shall be exactly related in this ditty. The tune is, Ned Smith.

People / Organizations

• L. P. (Author)

Imprint

London: Printed for F[rancis]. Grove dwelling on Snow hill, [1655?]

Publication year

1655-1655

ESTC No.

R227893

Grub Street ID

100690

Description

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; obl. 1⁰

Note

Attributed by Wing to Laurence Price. Signed at end: I(?).P.

Verse - "Of two notorious thieves,".

Date of publication and publisher's name from Wing CD.

L copy at BR f 821.04 B49(32), torn; most of right half wanting.

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