Leeds Mail Coach Robbery.- Davies (W.P.) "A Brand plucked out of the Fire!" or A Brief Account of Robert Kendall...executed at Northampton, the 13th August, 1813, fifth edition, Northampton, 1813 bound with Griffin (Rev. Edward) Strictures upon a publication entitled "A Brand plucked out of the Fire!"..., Nottingham, 1813 and "Laicus". Observations on a pamphlet...entitled "A brand plucked out of the fire"!, Bedford, 1813 and Robbery of the Leeds Mail. An address to the public, occasioned by that part of the alleged "Refutation" published by the writer of Kendall's narrative..., Northampton, 1814 and Davies (W.P.) A Refutation of the Charges alleged against the writer of Kendall's Narrative..., Northampton, 1814 and Some account of the trial of Huffham White, Robert Kendall, and Mary Howes, (otherwise Taylor)..., Northampton, 1813 and Predestined Thief (The); or, A dialogue between a Calvinistic preacher and a thief condemned to the gallows..., 1814, together 7 works in 1 vol., some spotting and soiling, old library blind stamp to first title, engraved bookplate of George Chetwynd, later half calf, uncut, new spine label, 8vo et infra bound into 8vo

⁂ A collection of seven pamphlets by participants in, witnesses to, or contemporary commentators on the notorious Leeds Mail Coach Robbery of October 1812. Robert Kendall and Huffham White removed sixteen bags of mail from an apparently moving coach, which continued for several miles before the robbery was discovered. Enquiries by Bow Street officers led to Bristol and then Liverpool, where Kendall and White were arrested after a violent struggle in the cellar of a house. After being found guilty at a 14-hour trial involving forty witnesses, White and Kendall were executed at Northampton in August, 1813. Kendall's conviction aroused some controversy when the Methodist minister W. P. Davies claimed that the verdict was unsafe, with the evidence against him being wholly circumstantial.