The trial of the notorious highwayman Richard Turpin: at York Assizes on the 22d day [of March 1739, before the Hon. Sir Willia[m Chapple, Kt., judge of assize and one [of His Majesty's justices of the Court of King['s Bench:

taken down in court by Mr. Thomas Kyll, professor of short hand; to which is prefix'd an exact account of the said Turpin, from h[is first coming into Yorkshire to the time of hi[s being committed prisoner to York Castle; communicated by Mr. Appleton, of Beverle clerk of the peace for the east-riding of t[he said County; with a copy of a letter which Turpin received from his father, while under sentence of deat[h; to which is added his behaviour at the place of execution, on Saturday, the 7th of April 1739; together with the whole confession [he made to the hangman at the gallows, wherein he acknowledg'd himself guilty of the facts for which he suffer['d, own'd the murder of Mr. Thompson's servant on Eppi[ng Forest and gave a particular account of several robberies which he had committed c.1739