1682 Gallery

Jonathan Wild

Engraving depicting Jonathan Wild in the cart. Jonathan Wild, (1682/83-1725), was a London underworld figure. He became a manipulator of legal systems, collecting the rewards offered for valuables which he had stolen himself, bribing prison guards to release his colleagues, and blackmailing any who crossed him. He was responsible for the arrest and execution of Jack Sheppard, a petty thief and burglar who had won the publics affection as a lovable rogue. However, Wilds duplicity became known, and his men began to give evidence against him. After a suicide attempt, he was hanged at Tyburn

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Matthew Champion (111)

MATTHEW CHAMPION Flemish-born resident of Great Yarmouth, son of a farrier so perhaps himself a farrier : he died at age 111. Date: 1682 - 1793

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111, 1682, 1793, Age, Born, Champion, Died, Farrier, Flemish, Great, Historical, History, Human, Lived, Long, Matthew, Oddities, Paranormal, People, Resident, Son, Yarmouth

Man in Turkish dress and wearing a turban harvesting opium

Title page including illustration of a man in Turkish dress and wearing a turban harvesting opium. From: Opiologia ad mentem academiae naturae curiosorum | Georgii Wolffgangi Wedelii, Med. Doctoris, professoris publici, et medici Ducalis Saxonici, Opiologia ad mentem academiae naturae curiosorum. Date: 1682

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