Published in 1724 while Jack Sheppard was the talk of London, this pamphlet traces his career from stolen fustian in White-Horse-Yard to burglaries in May Fair, Clare-Market and Drury Lane. It recounts his partners, his so-called wife, his arrests and the jail-breaks that made a carpenter’s apprentice a popular hero.
A vivid piece of early true crime long attributed to Defoe, written for a public hungry for news of a celebrity criminal. Download the free EPUB.