MARK ANTHONY DE LA PORTE
A Catholic priest, sentenced to life imprisonment for performing a Catholic marriage, 4th March 1719

JONATHAN WILD
Director of a Corporation of Thieves, and a most famous Receiver. Executed at Tyburn, 24th of May, 1725

MARGARET DIXON
Who was married a Few Days after she was hanged for Murder in 1728

JOHN WALLER, alias TREVOR,
Pilloried for perjury, and pelted to death by the populace, 13th June, 1732

USHER GAHAGAN AND TERENCE CONNER
Erudite Men, who were executed for High Treason, in diminishing the Current Coin of the Realm, 28th of February, 1749

JOHN CATHER, PATRICK KANE, AND DANIEL ALEXANDER
Pilloried for extortion, 1751.

JOHN YOUNG
Convicted of Crimping, or Kidnapping, young Men for the Service of the East India Company, 27th of April, 1757

THOMAS ANDREWS
Convicted of an unnatural crime

JOHN CROUCH AND WIFE
Convicted for offering to sell, on the Royal Exchange, a Young Girl, 12th of May, 1766

WILLIAM GUEST
Executed at Tyburn, 14th of October, 1767, for High Treason, in diminishing the Current Coin of the Realm

JOHN HOLMES AND PETER WILLIAMS
Publicly whipped, by the Sentence of the Middlesex Court of Quarter Sessions, for December, 1777, for stealing Dead Bodies

ALEXANDER SCOTT
City of London hoaxed by a False Proclamation of War, April, 1778

JAMES DONALLY
A Blackmailer, who was convicted of Highway Robbery, 22nd of February, 1779

JOHN ELLIOT, M.D.
Acquitted of a Serious Crime, he killed himself, by Hunger-Striking because of a Vindictive Sentence for a Minor Offence

NATHANIEL LILLEY, JAMES MARTIN, MARY BRIANT, WILLIAM ALLEN, AND JOHN BUTCHER
Convicted of Returning from Transportation

SARAH LLOYD
Convicted of Larceny in April, 1800, and executed in spite of Extraordinary Efforts to get her reprieved

THOMAS PICTON, ESQ.
Late Governor of Trinidad. Convicted 24th of February, 1806, of applying Torture, in order to extort Confession from a Girl

ROBERT POWELL
A Starving Fortune-Teller, who was convicted by the Middlesex Magistrates of being a Rogue and Vagabond, 1807

HECTOR CAMPBELL, ESQ.
Fined and imprisoned, in the Year 1808, for acting as a Physician without a Licence

THE REV. ABRAHAM ASHWORTH,
Sentenced in 1808 to Three Years' Imprisonment in Lancaster Jail, for ill-treating his Female Pupils

WILLIAM HEWITT
Fined Five Hundred Pounds, and imprisoned, at the Old Bailey Sessions, in October, 1809, for enticing an English Artificer to leave his Country and emigrate to the United States of North America

THOMAS PUGH AND ELIZABETH PUGH
Convicted at the London Sessions, 20th of January, 1810, and sentenced to Imprisonment for a Conspiracy, in what is called " Child-Dropping "

JOSEPH MOSES
Convicted in 1811 of receiving the Skins of Royal Swans from the Serpentine River, in Hyde Park, knowing them to have been stolen

JOHN STANLEY, THOMAS JEFFRY, W. BRAINE AND WILLIAM BRUNT
London Boot Operatives who were imprisoned for conspiring to obtain Better Wages, August, 1811

HARRIET MAGNIS
Tried for child stealing, 1811

JOHN DAVIES
Sentenced to Six Months' Imprisonment for buying Guineas at a Higher Price than their Nominal Value, September, 1812

CHARLES FOX
"The Flying Dustman," convicted at the Middlesex Sessions, September, 1812, for an Assault, and sentenced to Three Months' Imprisonment

JOHN WALKER
Another Tyrannical Guardian of the Peace of the Night, whose Case offers another Peep into a London Watch-House, imprisoned for assaulting a Woman, November, 1812

MRS MARY RIDDING
A Captain's Wife, who was sent to Prison for stealing a Child, 28th of August, 1819

JOHN ST JOHN LONG
A Quack Doctor of Harley Street, who was convicted for the Manslaughter of a Woman Patient. When he died a Monument was erected to him by Grateful Patients

JAMES LOVELACE and others
The Tolpuddle Martyrs, transported for forming a trade union, 1834

PRIVATE HALES
Pitiful Scene in an Attempt to hang him at Jersey

JAMES BULLOCK
Executed, under the Bankruptcy Act, for a Felonious Embezzlement

THOMAS WHITE AND WALTER WYATT
Two Thieves, who were the First Criminals to be executed at Oxford

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