Excerpt from The Rogue's March: A Romance The' Rogue's March from week to week in its serial course, would have me add foot-notes on the ground that this story, though by no means founded upon facts, is nevertheless largely built up of them I have, howeyer, my own prejudice against foot-notes to fiction and I understand that Notes at the end are never read. I may therefore state at the outset that the Newgate scenes are as near the truth as I have been able to make them, with. The aid of sundry Parliamentary papers, supplemented by the very kindly assistance of (i believe) the first living authority on the subject. And a certain broad sheet is still in existence as described and quoted, with its vile verses, and its illiterate but circumstan tial account of the execution of a man who was not executed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.