The History Of The Remarkable Life of John Sheppard & Atlantis Major = История замечательной жизни Джона Шеппарда: кн. на англ.яз. Defoe D. 5314431

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<p>John Sheppard was a notorious English robber and thief of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.</p>