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Notorious Prison Escape and Robbery Pair
Details a prison escape at Finchley involving Sheppard and a butcher named Page. After a chase, Sheppard begged not to be shot. both men were captured and jailed, with confessions of post escape robberies. The report also lists shipping arrivals, mortality data, and local advertisements from Dublin 1724, including notices of perukes, lost horse rewards, and forthcoming volumes on ecclesiastical writers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finchley
Brown’s Well
Clare-Market
Sheppard
Newgate
Page
Sir Francis Forbes
Northampton
London
Compter
Drury Lane
Winder
Oseph Pickeaver
Black
England
Ireland
Tolen
Glinskeagh
Danebrook
Dublin
John Conners
Smittield
John Burgess
Miltown
George Grierson
Essex-Street
Ellies Dupin
Evans
Roscrea
Tipperary
Athaniel Barton
Knockrea
Wicklow
Trotswell
Owen Burne
Richard Foulkes
Allen Ramsey
George ‘Risk
Castle Lane
James Street
Horse Guard