Jack Sheppard

Jack Sheppard

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Title: Jack Sheppard A Romance
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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English Library
_VOL. XII_
JACK SHEPPARD A Romance
BY W. Harrison Ainsworth
Internationale Bibliothek G M B H Berlin
1922
"Upon my word, friend," said I, "you have almost made me long to try
what a robber I should make." "There is a great art in it, if you did,"
quoth he. "Ah! but," said I, "there's a great deal in being hanged."
_Life and Actions of Guzman d'Alfarache._
Printed In Germany
CONTENTS.
EPOCH THE FIRST, 1703. JONATHAN WILD.

CHAPTER I.
The Widow and her Child 1 II. The Old Mint 13 III. The Master of the
Mint 28 IV. The Roof and the Window 34 V. The Denunciation 42 VI.
The Storm 51 VII. Old London Bridge 63
EPOCH THE SECOND, 1715. THAMES DARRELL.

CHAPTER I.

The Idle Apprentice 75 II. Thames Darrell 88 III. The Jacobite 95 IV.
Mr. Kneebone and his Friends 99 V. Hawk and Buzzard 103 VI. The
first Step towards the Ladder 119 VII. Brother and Sister 131 VIII.
Miching Mallecho 135 IX. Consequences of the Theft 147 X. Mother
and Son 154 XI. The Mohocks 160 XII. Saint Giles's Round-house 167
XIII. The Magdalene 177 XIV. The Flash Ken 191 XV. The Robbery
in Willesden Church 198 XVI. Jonathan Wild's House in the Old 201
Bailey XVII. The Night-Cellar 211 XVIII. How Jack Sheppard broke
out of 218 the Cage at Willesden XIX. Good and Evil 224
EPOCH THE THIRD, 1724. THE PRISON-BREAKER.

CHAPTER I.
The Return 231 II. The Burglary at Dollis Hill 249 III. Jack Sheppard's
Quarrel with 254 Jonathan Wild IV. Jack Sheppard's Escape from the
258 New Prison V. The Disguise 261 VI. Winifred receives two
Proposals 278 VII. Jack Sheppard warns Thames 284 Darrell VIII. Old
Bedlam 291 IX. Old Newgate 302 X. How Jack Sheppard got out of
the 310 Condemned Hold XI. Dollis Hill revisited 324 XII. The Well
Hole 336 XIII. The Supper at Mr. Kneebone's 346 XIV. How Jack
Sheppard was again 367 captured XV. How Blueskin underwent the
Peine 377 Forte et Dure XVI. How Jack Sheppard's Portrait was 385
painted XVII. The Iron Bar 397 XVIII. The Bed Room 400 XIX. The
Chapel 401 XX. The Leads 405 XXI. What befell Jack Sheppard in the
408 Turner's House XXII. Fast and Loose 415 XXIII. The last Meeting
between Jack 419 Sheppard and his Mother XXIV. The Pursuit 425
XXV. How Jack Sheppard got rid of his 429 Irons XXVI. How Jack
Sheppard attended his 435 Mother's Funeral XXVII. How Jack
Sheppard was brought 441 back to Newgate XXVIII. What happened at
Dollis Hill 449 XXIX. How Jack Sheppard was taken to 454
Westminster Hall XXX. How Jonathan Wild's House was 458 burnt
down XXXI. The Procession to Tyburn 462 XXXII. The Closing Scene
472

EPOCH THE FIRST.
1703.
JONATHAN WILD.

JACK SHEPPARD.


CHAPTER I.
The Widow and her Child.
On the night of Friday, the 26th of November, 1703, and at the hour of
eleven, the door of a miserable habitation, situated in an obscure
quarter of the Borough of Southwark, known as the Old Mint, was
opened; and a man, with a lantern in his hand, appeared at the threshold.
This person, whose age might be about forty, was attired in a brown
double-breasted frieze coat, with very wide skirts, and a very narrow
collar; a light drugget waistcoat, with pockets reaching to the knees;
black plush breeches; grey worsted hose; and shoes with round toes,
wooden heels, and high quarters, fastened by small silver buckles. He
wore a three-cornered hat, a sandy-coloured scratch wig, and had a
thick woollen wrapper folded round his throat. His clothes had
evidently seen some service, and were plentifully begrimed with the
dust of the workshop. Still he had