THE NEWGATE CALENDAR
Contents
Part I
PREFACE
To the 1780 Edition
PREFACE
To Knapp and Baldwin's edition
THOMAS
DUN
Head of a Gang of Outlaws, on Account of whom King Henry I. is
credibly supposed to have built Dunstable. Executed Piecemeal.
SIR
GOSSELIN DENVILLE
Head of a Gang of Robbers who had the audacity, so it is said,
to hold up King Edward II.
ALICE
ARDEN of FEVERSHAM
Executed with her lover Mosbie and Others in the Year 1551 for
the Murder of her Husband
LORD
STOURTON AND FOUR OF HIS SERVANTS
Executed 6th of March, 1556, for the Murder Of William
Hartgill, Esq., and his Son John, of Kilmington, Somerset, after an
implacable Persecution
THOMAS
WYNNE
Housebreaker and Palacebreaker, whom Conscience made confess a
Murder twenty years afterwards. Executed in the Reign of Queen
Elizabeth
ALISTER
MACGREGOR
Who, for slaughtering the Laird of Luss's Friends, caused the
Name of Macgregor to be abolished. Executed in 1604
ROBERT
CREIGHTON, BARON OF SANQUIRE
Executed in 1612 for the Murder of John Turner, who had
accidentally put out one of his Eyes
SAWNEY
BEAN
An incredible Monster who, with his Wife, lived by Murder and
Cannibalism in a Cave. Executed at Leith with his whole Family in the
Reign of James I
THOMAS
WITHERINGTON, JONATHAN WOODWARD AND JAMES PHILPOT
Who, in the Reign of King James I. were the first to hear the
Exhortation of the Bellman of St Sepulchre's
ARTHUR
NORCOTT AND MARY NORCOTT, HIS MOTHER
Executed in 1629 for the Murder of the former's Wife after the
Test of touching the Body
WALTER
TRACEY
To whom is attributed a poetic Encounter with Ben Jonson.
Executed in 1634 after a Robbery On the Duke Of Buckingham
SAWNEY
CUNNINGHAM
An abandoned Villain who inveigled and murdered his Wife's
Lover, murdered his Uncle, terrorised the Country-side, and was
executed at Leith, 12th of April, I635
ISAAC
ATKINSON
A Highwayman who specialised in robbing Lawyers. Hanged at
Tyburn in 1640
WILLAM
BRANDON ALIAS JACK KETCH
Who beheaded King Charles the
First.
PATRICK
FLEMMING
An Irish Highwayman who held Sway near the Bog of Allen and,
after numerous Murders, was executed On 24th of April, 1650
CAPTAIN
ZACHARY HOWARD
A Royalist who lost his Estates and turned Highwayman.
Executed 1652
CAPTAIN
JAMES HIND
A Famous Highwayman who robbed Roundheads and even made an
Attempt on Cromwell. Executed 24th of September, 1652
CAPTAIN
PHILIP STAFFORD
Whose Patrimony being sequestered by the Roundheads took to
the Highway and was hanged at Reading
MAJOR
GEORGE STRANGWAYES
Executed 28th of February, 1658, for the Murder of the Man who
married his Sister
GILDER-ROY
A most barbarous Murderer of his Mother and Sister, who led a
bloodthirsty Gang of Outlaws in Scotland and hanged a Judge. Executed
in April, 1658
THOMAS
GRAY
Nephew to the Exeter Hangman, who turned Thief and Highwayman,
and ended by marrying an Heiress. His Autobiography written about 1660
JOHN,
RICHARD AND JOAN PERRY
Mother and Sons, executed in 1661 on the false Statement of
the First for the alleged Murder of Mr William Harrison, who appeared
alive two Years later after strange Adventures
COLONEL
JAMES TURNER
A Spendthrift London Merchant, against whom three Robberies
from other Merchants were proved. Executed 21st of January, 1663
MOSES
DRAYNE
Ostler, hanged at Brentwood in 1667 for the Murder (by a
Chelmsford Innkeeper and his Family some Years before) of Thomas
Kidderminster, a Guest.
MARY
FRITH OTHERWISE MOLL CUTPURSE
A famous Master-Thief and an Ugly, who dressed like a Man, and
died in 1663
SAWNY
DOUGLAS
A Scottish Highwayman who laid England under toll, and took a
Copy of "Chevy Chase" to Tyburn when he was hanged on 10th of
September, 1664
JAMES
BATSON
A Rogue who became a pretty Soldier and saw much of Europe,
finally dying by the Rope at home in 1666
THOMAS
SAVAGE
A Profligate Apprentice who murdered a Fellow-Servant, was
executed twice, and finally buried 28th of October, 1668
THE
REV. ROBERT HAWKINS
The Subject of a foul Conspiracy on the Part of Henry
Larrimore and Sir John Croke that failed at Aylesbury Assizes, 11th of
March, 1669
STEPHEN
EATON, GEORGE ROADES AND SARAH SWIFT
Executed 14th of July, 1669, for the Murder of the Rev. John
Talbot; their Accomplice, Henry Prichard, being reprieved
CLAUDE
DU VALL
A Frenchman who, coming to England, became by his Politeness
and Gallantry on the Road the Romantic Darling of the Ladies. Executed
21st of January, 1670
THOMAS
WILMOT
A Notorious Highwayman who hated and maltreated Women.
Executed 30th of April, 1670
THOMAS
BLOOD, GENERALLY CALLED COLONEL BLOOD
Who stole the Crown from the Tower of London on 9th of May,
1671
MARY
CARLETON, THE GERMAN PRINCESS
A Kentish Adventuress who travelled the Continent, acquired
several Husbands, and was executed on 22nd of January, 1673, for
returning from Transportation
ANDREW
RUTHERFORD OF TOWNHEAD
Executed for the Murder of James Douglass, Brother to Sir
William Douglass of Cavers, on 25th of November, 1674
GEORGE
CLERK AND JOHN RAMSAY
Executed 1st of March, 1675, for poisoning John Anderson, an
Edinburgh Merchant; Kennedy, the Chemist's Apprentice who supplied
them, being banished
PHILIP,
EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY
Tried for the Murder of Nathaniel Cony by his Brother Peers in
1678 and found guilty of Manslaughter later
THE
REV. ROBERT FOULKES
Executed 31st of January, 1679, for the Murder of his
newly-born Babe
CAPTAIN
RICHARD DUDLEY
[Note: The two versions of this man's life given in different
editions are so dissimilar that they may be two different men. Both are
given here]
CAPTAIN
VRATZ, JOHN STERN AND GEORGE BOROSKY
Foreigners who murdered Thomas Thynn, Esq., in Pall Mall, on
behalf, it was alleged, of Count Coningsmark. Executed 10th of March,
1682
WILLIAM
NEVISON
A Highwayman who, dying Of the Plague as was thought,
reappeared as his own Ghost, and was finally executed at York in 1684
JOHN
COTTINGTON ALIAS MUL-SACK
Chimney-Sweep, Pickpocket and Highwayman, who brought off some
big Coups. Executed in April, 1655
EDWARD
AND JOAN BRACEY
Who robbed on the Highway together, the Woman being executed
in 1685 and the Man being killed by a Gunshot Wound
JONATHAN
SIMPSON
A Highwayman who was witty with a Halter round his Neck and,
being reprieved, found that Newgate would not have him. Executed 8th of
September, 1686
WILLIAM
CADY
A Highwayman who shot a Woman before the Eyes of her Husband
for the Wedding-Ring she had swallowed. Executed in 1687
PHILIP
STANSFIELD, SON OF SIR JAMES STANSFIELD
Executed 15th of February, 1688, for the Murder of his Father
and for High Treason
JOHN
CHISLIE OF DALRY
Hanged 3rd of April, 1689, for the Murder of the Right Hon.
Sir George Lockhart, of Cornwath, Lord President of the Court of
Sessions, after being tortured under a Special Act
WILLIAM
BEW
Who practised the Art of Flattery on the Highway. Executed
17th of April, 1689
PATRICK
O'BRYAN
Hanged once for Highway Robbery, but lived to rob and murder
the Man for whom he had been executed. Finally hanged 30th of April,
1689
THOMAS
RUMBOLD
Who, if all the Stories about him be true, was a very notable
Cheat. Executed in 1689
WILLIAM
DAVIS, THE GOLDEN FARMER
Who was Farmer and Highwayman for Forty-two Years without his
Neighbours suspecting. Executed 20th of December, 1689
JACK
BIRD
A Highwayman who boxed an Earl's Chaplain for Twenty Guineas.
Executed 12th of March, 1690
OLD
MOBB
A Highwayman who took to cheating the Citizens of London.
Executed 30th of May, 1690
TOM
KELSEY
An audacious young Thief who robbed the Tent of King William
in Flanders and stabbed a Newgate Turnkey. Executed 13th Of June, 1690
SIR
JOHN JOHNSTON
Executed at Tyburn, 23rd of December, 1690 , for assisting to
steal an Heiress
JACK
WITHRINGTON
One of five Brothers, all of whom were hanged. He earned Fame
for his Courage, challenged the Captain of his Regiment; turned
Gamester, Thief and Highwayman. Executed 1st of April, 1691
JACOB
HALSEY
The Quaker Highwayman, who after being fooled by a "Spirit"
led a Life of Crime, and was executed at Maidstone in April, 1691
WILL
MACQUEER
Who stole the Lord Chancellor's Mace and delighted in robbing
Army Officers on the Highway. Executed at Tyburn, 1st of May, 1691
TOM
COX
A Handsome Highwayman who robbed the King's Jester and even
held up men of his own Trade. Executed 3rd of June, 1691
JACK
COLLET ALIAS COLE
Highwayman, who robbed in the Habit of a Bishop. Executed at
Tyburn, 5th of July, 1691, for Sacrilegious Burglary
TOM
WATERS
Highwayman, who held up Gipsies, robbed a Vice-Admiral, and
was executed on 17th of July, 1691
MOLL
JONES
Who became a Shoplifter for Love of her Husband. Executed at
Tyburn 18th of December, 1691
TOM
TAYLOR
Who, getting literally hooked as a Pickpocket, turned
House-breaker. Executed 18th of December, 1691, for using Arson as a
means to Theft
HENRY
HARRISON, GENT.
Sentenced to Death 6th of April, 1692, for strangling Dr
Clenche in a Coach
JOCELIN
HARWOOD
Highwayman, who committed such Barbarous Murders that his
Associates gave him up to Justice. Executed in 1692
SIMON
FLETCHER
A most expert Pickpocket, who captained the Thieves of London.
Executed in 1692
MADAM
MARY BUTLER
Mistress of the Duke of Buckingham, fined Five Hundred Pounds
for forging a Bond for Forty Thousand Pounds, and died in Newgate
Prison in 1692
WILLIAM
JONES (ALIAS GOODWIN) AND JOHN BARBER
Two Highwaymen caught at the same Robbery and
&executed together on 26th of July, 1693
JAMES
LEONARD
Eighteen-year-old Highwayman, who tried to cut the Fatal Rope,
and died with a Laugh in 1693
EDWARD
HINTON
Highwayman, who was such a Danger to Society that he was
condemned and executed on the same Day, in 1694
TOM
AUSTIN
Highwayman, guilty of unparalleled Butchery. He murdered his
Aunt, Wife and Seven Children. Executed in August, 1694
JAMES
WHITNEY
Notorious Highwayman, who believed in dressing well. Executed
at Smithfield, 19th of December, 1694
GEORGE
SEAGER
A Rogue of a Soldier, who deserted from Johnny Gibson's
Regiment and turned Burglar. Executed 27th of January, 1697
WILLIAM
JOYCE
A Chawbacon who, coming to London, was fleeced, so took to
fleecing Others. Executed in July, 1696
DR
FRANCIS SALISBURY AND THOMAS HOUGHTON
Executed at Tyburn, 3rd of November, 1697, for forging a
Sixpenny Stamp
WILL
HOLLYDAY
Captain of the Ragged Regiment of the Black Guards, which
Commission he threw up to take to the Highway. Executed 22nd of
December, 1697
JOHN
SHORTER
Highwayman, who conspired a Revolt in Newgate and saw the
Ghost of another Malefactor there. Executed 22nd of December, 1697
SPENCER
COWPER, ESQ.; JOHN MARSON, ELLIS STEVENS AND WILLIAM ROGERS, GENTS.
Tried for murder at Hertford Assizes and acquitted, 16th of
July, 1699
TOM
ROWLAND
Who worked the Highway disguised as a Woman for Eighteen
Years. Executed 24th of October, 1699
JOHN
BELLINGHAM
Son of a Justice, who took to the Highway, and was executed
27th of October, 1699, for Forgery
WILLIAM
MORELL
A "Cavalier" Doctor and Fraudulent Impersonator, who continued
his Cheats even after his Death in 1700
JOHN
LARKIN
Who committed so many Forgeries and Cheats that he had not
Time to confess them all before he died, on 19th of April, 1700
MICHAEL
VAN BERGHEN, CATHERINE VAN BERGHEN AND DROMELIUS, THEIR SERVANT,
PUBLICANS
Executed 10th of July, 1700, for the Murder of their Guest, Mr
Oliver Norris
GEORGE
CADDELL
Executed for the Cruel Murder of Miss Price, Whom he had
Seduced and Promised Marriage
JOHN
HOLLIDAY OR SIMPSON
Housebreaker and Highwayman, who robbed a King at Hertford,
and a Church, and was hanged at Tyburn in 1700
GEORGE
GRIFFITHS
Who courted his Master's Daughter and then robbed him. Hanged
at Tyburn on 1st of August, 1700 .
THE
REV. THOMAS HUNTER, M.A.
Executed on 22nd of August, 1700, near Edinburgh, for the
diabolical Murder out of Revenge of the Two Children of Mr Gordon
JOHN
COWLAND, GENTLEMAN
Who suffered Death on 20th of December, 1700, for stabbing Sir
Andrew Slanning, Baronet, near Drury Lane Theatre
CAPTAIN
JOHN KIDD
Known as the "Wizard of the Seas," who suffered for Piracy, at
Execution Dock, 23rd of May, 1701
HERMAN
STRODTMAN
Executed at Tyburn, 18th of June, 1701, for the Murder of
Peter Wolter, his Fellow-Apprentice
MARY
ADAMS
Executed for privately stealing, 16th June, 1702
MARY
CHANNEL
Famous for her Wit and Beauty, compelled to marry a Man she
detested, poisoned him, and was executed in 1703, at the age of 18
TIM
BUCKLEY
Highwayman, who fell after a hot Battle, and was hanged in
1701
TOM
JONES
Highwayman, executed at Launceston, 25th of April, 1702, for
robbing a Farmer's Wife
DICK
BAUF
Who executed his own Parents, and from a Pickpocket became a
Cat Burglar, and then a Highwayman. Executed at Dublin, 15th of May,
1702
ALEXANDER
BALFOUR
A Man of noble Family, who was convicted for the Murder of Mr
Syme, escaped from Prison, and lived Fifty Years after the Day fixed
for his Execution by the "Maiden" or Guillotine
THOMAS
ESTRICK
Executed for housebreaking on
the 10th of March, 1703.
JACK
WITHERS
A sacrilegious Villain who murdered a Footman and was executed
on the 16th of April, 1703
JOHN
PETER DRAMATTI
Executed at Tyburn, on 21st of July, 1703, for the Murder of
his Wife, who said she was allied to the French Royal Family
THOMAS
COOK
Murdered a Constable during a Riot in Mayfair, and was
executed on 11th of August, 1703
MOLL
RABY
Who robbed many Houses, and was hanged at Tyburn on 3rd of
November, 1703
MOLL
HAWKINS
A "Question Lay" Thief, whose End was at Tyburn, on 22nd of
December, 1703
HARVEY
HUTCHINS
Apprenticed as a Thief and became an expert Housebreaker.
Executed at Tyburn in 1704
TOM
SHARP
Resourceful Thief, Coiner and Trickster. Executed in Long Acre
on 22nd September, 1704
JOHN
SMITH
Who proved that a Peruke-Maker does not make a good
Highwayman, for his Career lasted only a Week. Executed 20th of
December, 1704
EDWARD
JEFFERIES
Murderer, executed at Tyburn, on
the 21st Of September, 1705.
JOHN
SMITH
Convicted of Robbery, reprieved while actually hanging upon
the Scaffold, 24th of December, I 705, and afterwards had two other
Escapes from Death
ROGER
LOWEN
Executed for Murder, 25th October, 1706
ARTHUR
CHAMBERS
A Master of Thieves' Slang, who was full of Artful Tricks,
which, however, did not save him from the Gallows at Tyburn, where he
found himself in 1706
JACK
GOODWIN ALIAS PLUMP
A young but expert Thief, who was executed at Tyburn in 1706
for Burglary
WILLIAM
ELBY OTHERWISE DUNN
An Armed Criminal, who was hanged for Burglary and Murder at
Fulham on the 13th of September, 1707
JOHN
HERMAN BRIAN
Executed for robbing and burning the House of Peter Persode,
Esq., St James's Street, Westminster, in October, 1707
JACK
HALL
Who, with two Associates named Bunce and Low, committed many
Robberies, and was executed at Tyburn in 1707
DICK
LOW
Who started thieving at the Age of Eleven. Executed at Tyburn
in 1707, when twenty-five years old
WILLIAM
GREGG
Spy, executed at Tyburn on the 28th of April, 1708
JOHN
MORGRIDGE
Murderer, executed at Tyburn, on the 28th of April, 1708.
JACK
OVET
An amorous Highwayman, who was executed at Leicester in May,
1708
ANNE
HARRIS
Although only Twenty when she was executed at Tyburn, on 13th
of July, 1708, she was a notorious Shoplifter, and her two Husbands had
already suffered the Death Penalty
MADAM
CHURCHILL
Who with three Men committed a Murder, and was executed at
Tyburn on I 7th of December, 1708
CAPTAIN
EVAN EVANS
Clerk to Sir Edmund Andrews, in Guernsey, and later Highwayman
in England. Executed in 1708
DICK
HUGHES
A Robber whose thoughtful Wife bought the Rope to hang him.
Executed at Tyburn in June, 1709.
CHRISTOPHER
SLAUGHTERFORD
Executed at Guildford, July 9, 1709, for the murder of Jane
Young
GRACE
TRIPP
Convicted of Murder on Evidence of the actual Perpetrator of
the Crime, and executed at the Age of Nineteen at Tyburn, 27th of
March, 1710
DANIEL
DAMAREE, GEORGE PURCHASE, and FRANCIS WILLIS
Tried for High-Treason.
JACK
ADDISON
Committed fifty-six Highway Robberies, and was executed at
Tyburn in March, 1711
RICHARD
THORNHILL, ESQ
Convicted of Manslaughter on 18th of May, 1711, for killing
Sir Cholmondeley Deering in a Duel
TOM
GERRARD
Taught a Dog to pick Pockets, and was executed for
Housebreaking at Tyburn in August, 1711
WILL
MAW
Having committed a Robbery, Maw ordered his Wife to organise a
Mock Funeral, so that People should think he was dead. He was executed
at Tyburn in October 1711
DAVY
MORGAN
Executed at Presteigne in April, 1712, for murdering Edward
Williams
ELIZABETH
MASON
Executed for the murder of her godmother, 18th June, 1712
ELIZABETH
CHIVERS
Executed for the murder of her bastard child, 1st August, 1712
COLONEL
JOHN HAMILTON
Convicted of Manslaughter, 11th of September, 1712, as Second
in a Duel between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mahon
RICHARD
TOWN
Executed at Tyburn, December 23, 1712, for Fraudulent
Bankruptcy
JACK
BLEWIT
Was taken into Slavery by the Blacks on Pirates' Island. After
gaining his Liberty and returning to England he became a Highwayman.
Executed in 1713 for the Murder of a Farmer's Daughter
TOM
GRAY
Highwayman who set Fire to a Prison. Executed at Tyburn in
March, 1713
NED
BONNET
Took to the Highway because he was ruined by a Fire. Executed
at Cambridge Castle in March, 1713
RICHARD
NOBLE
Executed at Kingston, March 28,
1713, For the Murder of Mrs. Sayer.
DICK
ADAMS
Once pretended to be the Bishop of London's Nephew in order to
escape from a Man he had robbed. Executed at Tyburn, 1713
NED
WICKS
Highway Robber, executed at Warwick Jail in 1713 for Robbery
JACK
SHRIMPTON
Convicted for Murder and Highway Robberies. Executed
WILL
LOWTHER
Executed on Clerkenwell Green for the Murder of Edward Perry,
December, 1713
RODERICK
AUDREY
With the Assistance of a Sparrow he committed many Robberies,
and was executed at Tyburn in 1714 at the age of Sixteen
MACCARTNEY
Hanged at Gloucester Jail in April, 1714, for the Murder of
one Mr Beachere
WILL
OGDEN AND TOM REYNOLDS
Housebreakers and Highwaymen. Executed at Kingston-upon-Thames
in April, 1714
HENRY
PLUNKET
Murderer, executed at Tyburn, on
the 22nd of September,1714.
WILLIAM
JOHNSON AND JANE HOUSDEN
Executed in September, 1714, for the Murder of a Turnkey in
the Court at the Old Bailey
THOMAS
DOUGLASS
Murderer, executed at Tyburn on
the 27th of October, 1714.
WILL
CHANCE
Robbed his Uncle by Forgery, and then turned Footpad. Was
executed at Tyburn in April, 1715
NATHANIEL
PARKHURST, ESQ.
Executed for the Murder of Lewis Pleura, 20th May, 1715
ZACHARY
CLARE
Highwayman, who was captured after a Fight, and executed with
James Lawrence in August, 1715, at Warwick Jail
THE
FIRST REBELLION IN SCOTLAND.
Account of the rise and progress
of the rebellion in Scotland, 1715; With full accounts of the principal
traitors who were executed.
COLONEL
HENRY OXBURGH,
Executed at Tyburn, May 14,
1716, for High Treason.
RICHARD
GASCOIGNE
Executed at Tyburn, May 25;
1716, for High Treason.
REV.
WILLIAM PAUL
Executed at Tyburn, July 18,
1716, for High Treason.
JOHN
HALL, ESQ.
Executed at Tyburn, July
18,1716, for High Treason.
ROBERT
WHITTY, FELIX O'HARA, AND JOSEPH SULLIVAN
Executed at Tyburn, July
18,1716, for High Treason.
JAMES
GOODMAN
Executed March 12, 1716, for
Horse Stealing, &c.
HENRY
POWEL
Highwayman, executed at Tyburn, on the 23rd of December, 1715.
JOHN
HAMILTON, ESQ.
Tried in Scotland for Murder, and beheaded by the Maiden, 30th
of June, 1716
JAMES
QUIN, ESQ.
The Celebrated Tragedian, tried for Murder at the Old Bailey
in 1717, and convicted of Manslaughter
THE
MARQUIS DE PALEOTTI
An Italian Nobleman, executed at Tyburn for the Murder of his
Servant, 17th of March, 1718.
JOSEPH
STILL
Executed At Stanford-Hill,
March, 22, 1717, For Murder
JAMES
SHEPPARD
Jacobite, who plotted to
assassinate King George I. Executed 17th March, 1718
JOHN
PRICE, COMMONLY CALLED JACK KETCH
A Rogue and Liar, who was not believed when he spoke the
Truth. He held the Office of Common Hangman, and was himself hanged in
Bunhill Fields in May, 1718, for murdering a Woman
JAMES
FILEWOOD ALIAS VILET
Convicted of picking Pockets, and sentenced to Death. Executed
at Tyburn in October, 1718
CATHERINE
JONES
Tried for Bigamy
LIEUTENANT
EDWARD BIRD
Took a Pinch of Snuff just before his Execution at Tyburn, on
23rd of February, 1719, for murdering a Waiter
MARK
ANTHONY DE LA PORTE
A Catholic priest, sentenced to
life imprisonment for performing a Catholic marriage, 4th March 1719
NICHOLAS
HORNER
A Minister's Son who turned Highwayman, and was executed 3rd
of April, 1719
THOMAS
BUTLER, Esq.
Highwayman, executed at Tyburn,
on the 8th Of February 1720.
BARBARA
SPENCER
Executed at Tyburn on the 5th of July, 1721, for Coining. She
was probably the first Woman to suffer the Death Penalty for what was
regarded as Treason
MATTHEW
CLARKE
Executed for murder, 28th July, 1721
WILLIAM
SHAW
Executed in 1721 for "Murdering" his Daughter, who, it was
afterwards proved, committed Suicide
JOHN
MEFF
Executed for Returning from Transportation
ARTHUR
GRAY
Convicted of Burglary
NATHANIEL
HAWES
Highwayman, who underwent Torture for the Sake of his Honour.
Executed at Tyburn, 21st of December, 1721.
ARUNDEL
COOKE, ESQ., AND JOHN WOODBURNE
The First who suffered Death under the Coventry Act. Executed
at Bury St Edmunds, 5th of April, 1722
JOHN
HARTLEY AND THOMAS REEVES
Footpads, who were executed at Tyburn on the 4th of May, 1722,
after One had, by a Ruse, petitioned the King
JOHN
HAWKINS AND JAMES SIMPSON
Highwaymen and Mail Robbers. Executed at Tyburn on the 21st of
May, 1722
WILLIAM
BURRIDGE
Executed at Tyburn, May 22, 1722, for Horse-stealing.
NATHANIEL
JACKSON
Highwayman, executed at Tyburn,
on the 18th of July, 1722
THOMAS
BUTLOGE
Robber, hanged at Tyburn, for
basely betraying his trust, in robbing his master, on the 18th of July,
1722
MARGARET
FISHER
Sentenced to death for privately stealing, but afterwards
pardoned, September, 1722
MATTHIAS
BRINSDEN
Executed for killing his wife.
ROBERT
WILKINSON, JAMES LINCOLN, AND THOMAS MILKSOP
Murderers, executed at Tyburn,
Sept. 24, 1722.
WILLIAM
SPIGGOT AND THOMAS PHILLIPS
Who suffered the Torture for refusing to plead. Executed at
Tyburn, 23rd of February, 1723, for Robbery
RICHARD
OAKEY, JOHN LEVEY, AND MATTHEW FLOOD
Executed at Tyburn, on the 23rd of February, 1723, for robbery
JACOB
SAUNDERS
Who murdered a Farmer at Caversham, and was arrested at
Church. Executed in March, 1723
CHRISTOPHER
LAYER, ESQ.
Executed at Tyburn, March 15,
1723, for High Treason.
WILLIAM
BURK
After an adventurous Seafaring Life as a Boy he became a
Robber, and was executed at Tyburn on the 8th of April, 1723
SARAH
PRIDDON, alias SALLY SALISBURY
Convicted of stabbing a gentleman in a brothel
ALEXANDER
DAY, Alias MARMADUKE DAVENPORT, ESQ.
A Sharper
WILLIAM
HAWKSWORTH
Soldier, who killed a Civilian with his Musket in St James's
Park. Executed at Tyburn on the 17th of June, 1723
THOMAS
ATHOE, THE ELDER, AND THOMAS ATHOE, THE YOUNGER
Executed for murder
CAPTAIN
JOHN MASSEY
Executed at Execution-Dock, July
26, 1723, for Piracy. (A Very Hard Case.)
PHILIP
ROCHE
Executed on 5th of August, 1723, for many Murders on the High
Seas and Piracy
WILLIAM
DUCE, JAMES BUTLER, -- WADE, and -- MEADS
A desperate and cruel gang of
murderers and footpads. Executed at Tyburn, August 14, 1723.
HUMPHRY
ANGIER
Executed at Tyburn, September 9,
1723, for Robbery.
RICHARD
PARVIN, EDWARD ELLIOT, ROBERT KINGSHELL, HENRY MARSHALL, EDWARD PINK,
JOHN PINK AND JAMES ANSELL
The "Waltham Blacks," who were executed at Tyburn, 4th of
December, 1723, for Murder and Deer-Stealing
JOHN
STANLEY
An Insolent Puppy who presumed on his Swordsmanship. Executed
at Tyburn, 23rd of December, 1723, for murdering his Mistress
STEPHEN
GARDENER
Executed at Tyburn, 3rd of February, 1724, for House-breaking,
after being warned that the Bellman would say his Verses over him
JOSEPH
BLAKE ALIAS BLUESKIN
Made an Unsuccessful Attempt to kill Jonathan Wild by cutting
his Throat. Executed in November, 1724, at Newgate
JACK
SHEPPARD
A Daring Housebreaker, who made Ingenious Escapes from Prison
and even tried to foil his Executioner at Tyburn on 16th of November,
1724
LEWIS
HOUSSART
Executed at Swan-Alley,
Shoreditch, Dec. 7, 1724, for Murder.
THOMAS
PACKER and JOSEPH PICKER
Executed at Tyburn February, 1,
1725, For Highway Robbery:
VINCENT
DAVIS
Executed at Tyburn, April 3rd,
1725, for the murder of his wife.
ROBERT
HARPHAM
Under the Pretence of making Buttons he made Coins, and was
executed at Tyburn, 24th of May, 1725
JONATHAN
WILD
Director of a Corporation of Thieves, and a most famous
Receiver. Executed at Tyburn, 24th of May, 1725
EDWARD
BURNWORTH, WILLIAM BLEWITT, EMANUEL DICKENSON, THOMAS BERRY, JOHN
LEGEE, JOHN HIGGS, and ---- MARJORAM
Another gang of murderers and
daring robbers.
CATHERINE
HAYES
Who with Others foully murdered her Husband, and was burned
alive on 9th of May, 1726
RICHARD
SAVAGE, ESQ. (THE CELEBRATED POET, SON OF THE EARL OF RIVERS AND THE
UNNATURAL COUNTESS OF MACCLESFIELD), JAMES GREGORY, ESQ., AND WILLIAM
MERCHANT, ESQ.
Murderers who escaped Death
MARGARET
DIXON
Who was married a Few Days after she was hanged for Murder in
1728
EDWARD
BELLAMY
A Daring Shop-Robber, who was executed at Tyburn On 27th of
March, 1728
JOHN
EVERETT
Highwayman, Turnkey and Ale-House Keeper. Executed at Tyburn,
20th of February, 1729
MAJOR
JOHN ONEBY
Who murdered a Man in a Duel and cheated the Gallows, 1729
JAMES
CLUFF
Murderer, executed at Tyburn,
July 25, 1729, on an appeal, after being acquitted.
JOHN
GOW
Captain of a notorious Gang of Pirates. Executed at Execution
Dock, 11th of August, 1729 for Piracy
JEPHTHAH
BIG
Executed at Tyburn, Sept. 19,
1729, for sending a letter to extort money.
FRANCIS
CHARTERIS
Convicted of using violence to the person of Ann Bond.
SIR
SIMON CLARKE, BART., AND LIEUTENANT ROBERT ARNOTT
Convicted as Highwaymen in 1731, but afterwards reprieved
ROBERT
IRWIN
Executed at Tyburn, in the year
1731, for Murder.
WILLIAM
SMITH
A notorious horse-stealer,
executed at Chelmsford, April 13,1731
ROBERT
HALLAM
Executed for murdering his wife, February 14th, 1732
JOHN
HEWIT AND ROSAMUND ODERENSHAW
Murderers, executed March 29,
1732
JONATHAN
HAWKINS
Who played Cards after committing a Double Murder and Arson
near Wells. Executed 14th of April, 1732
JOHN
WALLER, alias TREVOR,
Pilloried for perjury, and pelted to death by the populace,
13th June, 1732
ELY
HATTON
Murderer, executed at
Gloucester, August, 1732
ELEANOR
BEARE
(A very curious and wicked
case.)
JOSEPH
POWIS
Strolling player turned housebreaker, executed 9th October,
1732
WILLIAM
SHELTON
Executed at Tyburn, October 9,
1732, for highway robbery.
ISAAC
AND THOMAS HALLAM
Murderers and Highwaymen, hanged in Lincolnshire, 20th of
February, 1733, upon the Spot where they committed their Crime
SARAH
MALCOLM
Executed for the Murder of a Wealthy Old Lady in the Inns of
Court, 7th of March, 1733
WILLIAM
ALCOCK
Who first abandoned, and then
murdered, his wife. Executed at Northampton, March 9, 1733.
WILLIAM
GORDON
Highwayman, on whose body, after
execution, an experiment was made to bring him to life
CAPTAIN
JOHN PORTEOUS
Convicted of murder, but murdered by the mob
JOHN
COLLINS
Executed for murdering Jane Upcot, and exposing her head on a
spike, 1737
THOMAS
CARR, AN ATTORNEY , AND ELIZABETH ADAMS
Executed at Tyburn, 18th of January, 1738, for Robbery
WILLIAM
UDALL
A Profligate Apprentice, who turned Highwayman. Executed at
Tyburn, 14th of March, 1738
JOHN
TOON AND EDWARD BLASTOCK
Executed at Tyburn, May 20,
1738, for highway robbery.
JOSEPH
JOHNSON
Pickpocket and "Esquire," who swindled many Farmers and was
executed at Tyburn, 19th of July, 1738, at the Age of Sixty
WILLIAM
NEWINGTON
A Writer, who forged a Draft for One Hundred and Twenty Pounds
and was executed at Tyburn on 26th of August, 1738
JOHN
TOTTERDALE
Executed at Tyburn, October 5,
1738, for the murder of his wife.
GEORGE
PRICE
Sentenced to Death for murdering his Wife, but died of Jail
Fever, 22nd of October, 1738
JOHN
RICHARDSON AND RICHARD COYLE
Pirates, hanged at Execution Dock, 25th January, 1738
GEORGE
MANLEY
Executed at Wicklow, in Ireland,
in August, 1738, for murder.
RICHARD
TURPIN
A famous Highway Robber, who shot dead one of his own Comrades
and was executed at York On 7th of April, 1739
DAVID
ROBERTS
Executed for high treason, in
diminishing the gold coin of the realm, April 3, 1739.
ABRAHAM
WELLS
Executed at Tyburn, May 30,
1739, for horse-stealing.
JAMES
CALDCLOUGH
Executed for Robbery, July 2nd 1739.
THOMAS
LYMPUS
Executed near Wells, in Somersetshire, 21st of September 1739,
for robbing the Mail.
THOMAS
BARKWITH
An accomplished Scholar and Linguist, who was executed at
Tyburn 1st of December, 1739, for Robbery
EDWARD
JOINES
Executed for the murder of his
wife, December 21, 1739.
MARY
YOUNG ALIAS JENNY DIVER
The Head of a Gang of Thieves of every Description. Executed
at Tyburn, 18th of March, 1740
CHARLES
DREW
Parricide, executed at St. Edmondsbury, 9th April, 1740
ELIZABETH
AND MARY BRANCH
Mother and Daughter, executed at Ivelchester on the 3rd of
May, 1740, for murdering a Girl
WILLIAM
CREAK
Mail robber: Executed, much
lamented, on Bagshot-heath, and his body hung in chains, where he
committed the robbery.
WILLIAM
DUELL
Executed for Murder and came to Life again while being
prepared for Dissection in Surgeons' Hall, 24th of November, 1740
GILBERT
LANGLEY
Transported for robbing a man of three farthings, December,
1740
CAPTAIN
SAMUEL GOODERE, A FRATRICIDE; MATTHEW MAHONY AND CHARLES WHITE
Executed for the Murder of Sir John Dinely Goodere, Bart., at
the Hot Wells, Bristol, 20th of April, 1741
CAPTAIN
HENRY SMYTHEE
Executed at Dorchester, April
12, 1741, for the murder or the female whom he had seduced.
JAMES
HALL
Hanged for Petit-Treason, in the Murder of his Master.
Part II
HENRY
COOK
Notorious Horse-Stealer and Highwayman, executed at Tyburn,
16th of December, 1741
JONATHAN
BRADFORD
Executed at Oxford for a Murder he had contemplated but did
not commit
JOHN
BODKIN, DOMINICK BODKIN AND OTHERS
Executed in Ireland on 26th of March, 1742, for the Murder of
Eleven Persons
THOMAS
LYELL AND LAWRENCE SYDNEY
Swindlers, who cheated with Loaded Dice and were pilloried for
Fraud, 2nd of June, 1742
ROBERT
RAMSEY
Highwayman, and a singular Cheat. Executed at Tyburn on the
13th of June, 1742
JOHN
JENNINGS
Executed at York, in the year
1742, on a charge of robbery, of which he was innocent.
ROBERT
FULLER
Convicted of shooting Mr Bailey, June Sessions, 1743, and
pardoned because he was wrongly identified
WILLIAM
CHETWYND
A Curious Case of a Schoolboy who killed another Boy during a
Quarrel about a Cake, and was convicted of Manslaughter, October, 1743
LYDIA
ADLER
Burned in the Hand for killing her Husband, who had four
Wives.
PATRICK
BOURKE AND GEORGE ELLIS
Executed at Tyburn, 20th of February, 1745, for Sheep-Stealing
MARTHA
TRACY
Executed for a Street Robbery
MATTHEW
HENDERSON
Executed in Oxford Street, 25th of February, 1746, for
murdering his Mistress, Lady Dalrymple, who was angry because he trod
on her Toe.
MARY
HAMILTON
A Woman who was imprisoned and whipped for marrying Fourteen
Women, 1746
THE
SECOND REBELLION OF THE PRETENDER TO THE BRITISH THRONE
in the year 1745.
THE
EARL OF KILMARNOCK, THE EARL OF CROMARTIE, THE LORD BALMERINO
Three of the principal rebel
chiefs
CHARLES
RATCLIFFE,
Who assumed the title of Earl of
Derwentwater
THOMAS
CAPPOCK
The rebel bishop of Carlisle.
THE
ESCAPE OF THE PRETENDER
After the Battle of Culloden
LORD
LOVAT
Beheaded for High Treason, at the age of Eighty, on 9th of
April, 1747
FRANCIS
TOWNLEY, JEMMY DAWSON AND OTHERS
Lesser rebels against his
Majesty
JOSEPH
RAWLINS, alias GREAT JOE;
A daring and notorious Smuggler,
executed at Winchester, October 10, 1746 for burglary.
GEORGE
LANCASTER
Executed at Tyburn, 16th of November, 1747, for forging a
Seaman's Will, in order to rob his Wife and Child
HOSEA
YOUELL
Executed at Tyburn, Nov. 16,
1747, for murder.
HENRY
SIMMS
The Extraordinary Career of a Youth, who was executed at
Tyburn, 16th of November, 1747, after returning from Transportation,
for Highway Robbery
SERJEANT
SMITH
An English Deserter to the
French, shot in the Park on the 11th day of December, 1747.
JOHN
PARKES
Executed at Tyburn, March 14,
1748, for forging an order on a silversmith, for unwrought silver.
WILLIAM
WHURRIER
Executed at Tyburn for murder,
March 7, 1748, and his body hung in chains on Finchley common. (A Hard
Case.)
WILLIAM
YORK
"The Boy Murderer," convicted of the Murder of another Child
in the Poorhouse of Eyke, in Suffolk, May, 1748
GEORGE
COCK
A most Plausible Scoundrel, executed at Tyburn, 13th of June,
1748, for privately stealing
THOMAS
THOMPSON
Executed at Tyburn, Oct. 24,
1748, for horse-stealing.
JOHN
WHITMORE AND JEREMIAH DAWES
Of the University of Oxford. Convicted and punished for
Sedition, 28 th of November, 1748
THE
THIEF, THE PRIESTS, AND THE GREAT KING OF PRUSSIA
An Anecdotal Fact, and a touch
at Superstition.
JOHN
YOUNG
Executed for Forgery, at Edinburgh, 19th December, 1748
BENJAMIN
TAPNER, JOHN COBBY, JOHN HAMMOND, RICHARD MILLS, RICHARD MILLS THE
YOUNGER, AND OTHERS
Revengeful Smugglers, who were executed for a Diabolical
Murder, 18th of January, 1749
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
BRIAN
SEYMOUR
Executed for murder, 2nd March, 1749
JOHN
COLLINGTON
A Man of extraordinary Violence and Inhumanity. Executed at
Canterbury with his Accomplice, John Stone, for setting fire to a Barn
RICHARD
COLEMAN
Who was executed on Kennington Common, in Surrey, 12th of
April, 1749, for a Murder he did not commit1
THOMAS
KINGSMILL, FAIRALL AND PERIN
Three of the thirty Smugglers who broke open the Custom-House
at Poole, and were executed at Tyburn, 26th of April, 1749
SAMUEL
COUCHMAN AND JOHN MORGAN, LIEUTENANTS OF MARINES, THOMAS KNIGHT,
CARPENTER, AND OTHERS
Part of the Crew of His
Majesty's Ship Chesterfield, shot at Portsmouth, for mutiny, July 14,
1749.
JOHN
MILLS
His Father and Brother were hanged, and he suffered a similar
Fate on Slendon Common, Sussex, 12th of August, 1749
THOMAS
NEALE and WILLIAM BOWEN
Highwaymen; (The former a most
hardened Sinner, who died cursing the Spectators of his Execution,
August 12, 1749.)
BENJAMIN
NEALE
Executed at Surrey, August 12,
1749, for burglary.
HUGH
DAWSON and JOHN GAMMELL
Executed on Kennington-common,
August 22, 1749.
ROBERT
COX
Late Captain's Clerk of the Royal George Man-of-War. Executed
at Winchester, 1st of September, 1749, for Forging Seamen's Tickets
ANN
FLYNN
A Sad Case with a Humorous Sequel
BOSAVERN
PENLEZ
Executed for rioting, 18th October, 1749
CAPTAIN
CLARKE, R.N.
Convicted and condemned to be hanged for the Murder of Captain Innis,
in a Duel, and pardoned, 12th of June, 1750
MARGARET
HARVEY
Executed for Privately Stealing
JAMES
COOPER
Executed for murder, August 26th, 1750
JAMES
MACLANE
Called "The Gentleman Highwayman." Executed at Tyburn, 3rd of October,
1750, for Highway Robbery
WILLIAM
SMITH
A Captain's Clerk in the Royal
Navy, Forger of Seamen's Tickets; Executed at Tyburn, October 3, 1750.
AMY
HUTCHINSON
Executed at Ely, 7th of November, 1750, for Petit Treason, in the
Murder of her Husband
JOHN
VICARS
Executed at Ely, 7th of November, 1750, for the Murder of his Wife,
after first witnessing the Strangling of a Woman for murdering her
Husband
JOHN
CARR
The Victim of Swindlers himself, he became a Pirate and Smuggler, and
was executed at Tyburn, 16th of November, 1750, for Forgery
GEORGE
ANDERSON ALIAS JOHN EVERETT
Who picked Pockets at Newgate, became a Highwayman, and was executed
for stealing Ribbons, 31st December, 1750
WILLIAM
RILEY
A young Soldier, whose Zeal for Sport led to a Murder, for which he was
executed at Tyburn in 1750
THOMAS
REYNOLDS
Executed at Tyburn, for
enlisting soldiers for the service of the king of France.
NORMAN
ROSS
A footman, executed at Edinburgh, January 8, 1751, for murdering his
mistress
RICHARD
BUTLER
Executed at Tyburn, February 10,
1751, for forgery.
WILLIAM
PARSONS, ESQ.
Eldest Son of a Baronet, who became a Swindler and Highway Robber, and
was executed for returning from Transportation, 11th of February, 1751
JOHN
CAULFIELD
Murder foretold by a Dream, in consequence of which the Murderer was
apprehended, convicted, and executed at Waterford in 1751
THOMAS
COLLEY
Executed 24th of April, 1751, for the Murder of People who were reputed
to be possessed of Witchcraft
THOMAS
QUIN, JOSEPH DOWDELL, AND THOMAS TALBOT
A Gang of Notorious Thieves,
executed at Tyburn, June 17, 1751, for robbery.
WILLIAM
DELLICOT
Convicted of Petty Larceny, in July, 1751, and his Estate forfeited for
stealing a Penny
THE
QUIBBLING THIEF.
Who stole a goose, and saved
himself by a pun
WILLIAM
CHANDLER
A singularly artful villain,
transported in the year 1751, for perjury.
JAMES
WELCH AND THOMAS JONES
Executed on Kennington Common, 6th of September, 1751, for Murder.
MATHIAS
KEYS
Executed on Kennington Common, 6th of September, 1751, for Highway
Robbery
WILLIAM
BAKER
A City Merchant, executed at Tyburn, 31st of December, 1751, for
forging an East India Warrant in order to avoid Bankruptcy
WILLIAM
STROUD
A Notorious Impostor, who was Six Times whipped through the Streets of
Westminster, in the Month of March, 1752
ELIZABETH
JEFFRIES AND JOHN SWAN
Deprived of her Uncle's valuable Estate, the Woman and an Accomplice
shot him dead after paying another Man to commit the Crime.
MARY
BLANDY
Executed 6th of April, 1752, for murdering her Father at the Request of
her Lover
JOHN
CATHER, PATRICK KANE, AND DANIEL ALEXANDER
Pilloried for extortion, 1751.
ANTHONY
DE ROSA
Hanged at Tyburn for robbery and murder, 23rd March, 1752
NICHOLAS
MOONEY and JOHN JONES
Executed at Bristol, May 24,
1752, for highway robbery.
JOHN
M'CANNELLY AND LUKE MORGAN
A Daring Burglary committed in the House of Mr Porter, of the Raike
Farmhouse, near Chester, by M'Cannelly, Morgan, Stanley, Boyd and
Neill, Irish Haymakers, for which the first two were executed on the
25th of May, 1752
THOMAS
WILFORD
A Cripple, who murdered his Wife in a Fit of Jealousy, and was executed
at Tyburn on the 22nd of June, 1752
MOSES
MORAVIA AND JOHN MANOURY
Convicted at the Old Bailey, 27th of June, 1752, for sinking a Ship and
swindling Insurers
ANN
WHALE AND SARAH PLEDGE
Ann Whale, strangled and then burned, for the Murder of her Husband;
and Sarah Pledge, hanged for being her Accomplice.
WILLIAM
MONTGOMERY
Executed at Tyburn, December 2,
1752, for defrauding his creditors
CAPTAIN
PETER DE LA FONTAINE
Convicted of Forgery
ANN
WILLIAMS
Burnt at the stake for murdering her husband, April 13, 1753
DR.
A. CAMERON
Executed at Tyburn, 7une 7, 1753 (greatly lamented) for High Treason.
CHRISTOPHER
JOHNSON AND JOHN STOCKDALE
Executed at Tyburn, 3rd of July, 1753, and their Bodies hanged in
Chains, for Murder
WILLIAM
SMITH
Executed at York, 14th Of August, 1753, for poisoning Thomas Harper,
his Stepfather, and his two Children, William and Anne Harper
MARY
SQUIRES and ELIZABETH CANNING
The first was convicted of robbery, and pardoned; the second was
convicted of, and transported for, Perjury, in swearing to that
robbery.
JOHN
HAMBLETON
A Soldier of the Guards, executed at Tyburn, 10th of December, 1753,
for the Murder of Mr Crouch
NICHOL
BROWN
Executed for the murder of his wife, August 14th, 1754
CAPTAIN
JOHN LANCEY
Executed at Execution Dock, 7th of June, 1754, for burning a Ship at
the Instigation of a Member of Parliament
PAUL
TIERNEY
A Traitor, executed August 30,
1754, for enlisting Englishmen to serve the enemy.
DAVIS,
THE MAIL-ROBBER
Executed and hung in chains near the place where he committed the
robbery
ROBERT
ALSOP, A MIDSHIPMAN, AND SIX SEAMEN
Convicted in 1755 for committing a Riot in the City of London, and
impressing a Citizen thereof, but treated leniently in order that they
might fight against France
HENRY
SAMUEL
A Jew, punished for breaking the
Christian Sabbath.
JOHN
GRIERSON
Transported for marrying without Banns, or License, December, 1755.
BLI
GONZALEZ ALIAS JOHN SYMMONDS ALIAS SPANISH JACK
After a varied Criminal Career he was finally executed at Maidstone,
18th of April, 1756, for stealing a Silver Tankard
CHARLES
FREDERICK WYSENTHALL
Transported in the year 1756, for
subornation of perjury.
LIEUTENANT
JOHN LANDER
Executed on Pennenden Heath, in Kent, 16th of August, 1756, for Murder
WILLIAM
CANNICOTT
Executed at Tyburn, 20th of September, 1756, for the Murder of his Wife
JOHN
BERRY, STEPHEN M'DANIEL, JAMES EGAN, JAMES SALMON AND -- BLEE
A new Species of Murderers, who conspired against the Lives of many
Innocent Men
JOSHUA
KIDDEN
A Victim of the horrid Conspirators, whose crimes and punishments are
described above
CHRISTOPHER
WOODLAND
Another Victim of the horrid gang of Thief-takers
ADMIRAL
BYNG
Shot to death on board the Monarque, at Spithead, for Misbehaviour
before the French Fleet in the Mediterranean
EDWARD
MORGAN
Executed and hung in Chains at Glamorgan, 6th of April, 1757, for
murdering a Family and burning down their House
JOHN
YOUNG
Convicted of Crimping, or Kidnapping, young Men for the Service of the
East India Company, 27th of April, 1757
WILLIAM
ADAMS
A Custom-House Officer in London, executed at Tyburn on 18th of May,
1757, for Forgery
RICHARD
HUGHES
Executed at Tyburn, May 18,
1757, for forgery.
WILLIAM
PAGE
A Gentleman of the Road who drove in a Phaeton and Pair, and after many
Adventures was executed for Highway Robbery on 6th of April, 1758
JAMES
WHITE AND WALTER WHITE
Brothers who were executed at Kennington Common, 19th of April, 1758,
for Robbery with Violence
DOCTOR
FLORENCE HENSEY
Convicted of High Treason, and
sentenced to Death on the 12th of June, 1758; respited, and then
reprieved, by King George the Second; but who received a free Pardon
from King George the Third.
JOSEPH
HALSEY
Ship's mate, hanged for beating two of his men to death
MARY
EDMONDSON
Strongly protesting her Innocence, she was executed on Kennington
Common, 2nd of April, 1759, for the Murder of her Aunt
JOHN
STEVENSON
Convicted of the Manslaughter of Francis Elcock, an Attorney-at-Law,
who had issued a Writ against him
EUGENE
ARAM
A Self-Educated Man, with remarkable Linguistic Attainments, who was
executed at York on 6th of August, 1759, for a Murder discovered
Fourteen Years after its Commission.
JOHN
AYLIFFE, ESQ.
Commissary of Musters in the War Office. Executed at Tyburn, 7th of
November, 1759, for Forgery
WILLIAM
ANDREW HORNE, ESQ.
Executed at Nottingham, 11th of December, 1759, in the Seventy-fifth
Year of his Age, for Murder, concealed Twenty-five Years
THE
REVEREND MR WHEATLEY
Sentenced to do Public Penance for Adultery
ROBERT
TILLING
Executed at Tyburn, 28th of April, 1760 for robbing his Master
LAURENCE,
EARL FERRERS
Executed at Tyburn, 5th of May, 1760, for the Murder of his Steward,
after a Trial before his Peers
FRANCIS
DAVID STIRN
Convicted of Murder, but poisoned himseff in Newgate, 12th of
September, 1760, after a Hunger Strike
PATRICK
M'CARTY
Executed at the bottom of Bow Street, Covent Garden, Westminster, 24th
of October, 1760, for Murder
THEODORE
GARDELLE
An Artist, who was executed in the Haymarket, 4th of April, 1761, for
murdering a Woman
THOMAS
ANDREWS
Convicted of an unnatural crime
THOMAS
DANIELS,
Condemned for the supposed Murder of his wife but subsequently
pardoned, 1761
PETER
PATTISON
Executed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5th of October, 1761, for being
concerned in a Riot at Hexham
JOHN
PERROTT
A Bankrupt, who refused to make Full Disclosures of his Effects, and
was executed in Smithfield, 11th of November, 1761
ROBERT
GREENSTREET
Executed at Tyburn, 14th of December, 1761, for the Murder of his
Master, from whom he demanded an Increase of Wages
JOHN
M'NAUGHTON, ESQ.
Who was twice executed in Ireland, 15th of December, 1761, for the
Murder of Miss Knox, whom he pretended to marry
CAPTAIN
JAMES LOWRY
Executed at Execution Dock, March 25, 1762, for murdering one of his
Crew
JOHN
PLACKETT
Executed on the City Road, London, 28th of July, 1762, for robbing a
Danish Gentleman, whom he treated with great Barbarity
PETER
ANNET
Convicted and pilloried for Blaspheming, in Michaelmas Term, 1762
JAMES
FARR, WILLIAM SPARRY AND WILLIAM BIDDLE
Executed at Tyburn, 10th November, 1762 for forging a Will
DANIEL
BLAKE
Executed for the Murder of John Murcott, Butler to Lord Dacre,
28th of February, 1763
WILLIAM
HARROW
The Flying Highwayman, executed at Hertford, 28th of March,
1763
ANN
BEDDINGFIELD AND RICHARD RINGE
The Woman burned for the Murder of her Husband, and the Man
hanged for being her Accomplice, near Ipswich, 8th of April, 1763
JOHN
RICE
A City Stockbroker, executed at Tyburn, 4th of May, 1763, for
Forgery
PAUL
LEWIS
An Officer of the Royal Navy, who became a Highwayman, and was
executed at Tyburn, 4th of May, 1763
HANNAH
DAGOE
Sentenced to Death for robbing a Poor Woman. She struggled
violently with the Executioner on the Scaffold, 4th Of May, 1763
THOMAS
WATKINS
Executed in the Market-Place of Windsor, 7th of March, 1764,
for Murder
WILLIAM
CORBETT
An American, executed at Tyburn, 4th of April, 1764, for the
Murder of his Landlord and his Family
MAJOR
COLIN CAMPBELL,
Cashiered for the murder of Captain M'Kaarg, 1764
JOHN
WESKET AND JOHN COOPER
The Former was executed at Tyburn, 9th of January, 1765, for
robbing his Master, the Earl of Harrington; and the Latter transported
for Fourteen Years for receiving Stolen Goods
BARNEY
CARROL AND WILLIAM KING
Convicted under the Coventry Act for cutting and maiming, and
executed at Tyburn, 31st of July, 1765
PATRICK
OGILVIE AND CATHARINE NAIRN
Convicted of Murder. Ogilvie hanged 13th November, 1765, but
Nairn escaped from custody.
PETER
M'KINLIE, GEORGE GIDLEY, ANDREW ZEKERMAN, AND RICHARD ST. QUINTIN
Executed for Piracy and Murder, December 19th, 1765
WILLIAM
WHITTLE
Excited by religious zeal he murdered his wife and children
and was executed April 5th, 1766
JOHN
CROUCH AND WIFE
Convicted for offering to sell, on the Royal Exchange, a Young
Girl, 12th of May, 1766
THE
COUNTESS OF BRISTOL,OTHERWISE THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON
Whose Trial for Bigamy, at Westminster Hall, was attended by
the Queen and other Members of the Royal Family
SAMUEL
ORTON
Clerk to the Court of Requests, executed 14th of January,1767,
for forging Two Letters of Attorney, in the Name of Captain Bishop, by
means of which he received One Thousand Pounds from the Bank of England
JOHN
WILLIAMSON
A deliberate and cruel Murderer, who tortured and starved his
Wife to Death. Executed in Moorfields, 19th of January, 1767
ELIZABETH
BROWNRIGG
Executed at Tyburn, 14th of September, 1767, for torturing her
Female Apprentices to Death
WILLIAM
GUEST
Executed at Tyburn, 14th of October, 1767, for High Treason,
in diminishing the Current Coin of the Realm
JOHN
POWER, Alias WINN
Pirate, hanged at Execution Dock, 10th March, 1768
JAMES
SAMPSON
A treacherous and base Villain, executed at Tyburn, 11th of
March, 1768, for robbing and setting fire to his Benefactor's House
FREDERIC
LORD BALTIMORE, ELIZABETH GRIFFENBURG, AND ANNE HARVEY
The former tried for committing a rape on Sarah Woodcock, and
the two latter as accessories before the fact, 26th March, 1768
JAMES
GIBSON
A Gentleman, executed at Tyburn, 23rd of March, 1768, for
Forgery on the Bank of England
JOHN
WILKES, ESQ., M.P.
Whose arrest and conviction for writing seditious and
blasphemous pamphlets led to riots in London in 1768.
WILLIAM
HAWKINS AND JOSEPH WILD
Indicted for rioting, July, 1768
SARAH
METYARD AND SARAH MORGAN METYARD, HER DAUGHTER
Executed at Tyburn, 19th of July, 1768, for the Cruel Murders
of Parish Apprentices
ELIZABETH
RICHARDSON
Executed at Tyburn, 21st of December, 1768, for murdering an
Attorney-at-Law, in Symond's Inn, Chancery Lane
WILLIAM
TAUNTON
Executed for the murder of Mrs. Phipps, 11th September, 1769
MUNGO
CAMPBELL
A Gentleman, who was convicted of killing the Earl of
Eglinton, and to avoid an Ignominious Death hanged himself, 28th of
February, 1770
Mr
BARETTI
An Italian, who was indicted for the wilful Murder of Evan
Morgan, and acquitted
JAMES
ATTAWAY AND RICHARD BAILEY
Executed at Tyburn, 4th of July, 1770, for committing a
Burglary after tying up the Butler
PETER
CONWAY AND MICHAEL RICHARDSON
Executed at Tyburn, 19th of July, 1770, for a Murder which was
their first Essay in Crime
CAPTAIN
DAVID FERGUSON
Hanged in chains at Execution Dock, 5th January 1771, for the
murder of his cabin-boy.
PETER
M'CLOUD
Hanged for Housebreaking, on 27th of May, 1771, before lie had
attained the Age of Sixteen
JOHN
EYRE, ESQ.
Transported, in 1771, for stealing Paper out of the Guildhall
of the City of London
DR
LEVI WEIL, ASHER WEIL, JACOB LAZARUS AND SOLOMON PORTER
A Gang of Robbers who committed Murder, and were executed at
Tyburn, 9th of December, 1771
HENRY
JONES, FRANCIS PHOENIX AND CHARLES BURTON
Executed at Tyburn, 3rd of February, 1772, for Burglary at the
House of Sir Robert Ladbroke, a City Banker
JAMES
BOLLAND
A Sheriff Officer, and a most unconscionable Villain, executed
at Tyburn, 18th of March, 1772, for Forgery
JONATHAN
BRITAIN
A plausible Rascal, who was executed at Bristol, 15th of May,
1772, for Forgery
JOHN
ADSHEAD AND BENJAMIN ALSWORTH
Hanged for housebreaking, 8th July, 1772
SAMUEL
ROBERTS and THOMAS BACCHUS
Hanged for High Treason, in counterfeiting the current Coin of
this Realm.
WILLIAM
GRIFFITHS
Executed at Tyburn, 20th of January, 1773, for a Highway
Robbery
GEORGE
BARRINGTON
A Well-Dressed Pickpocket who "worked" in Churches and the
Houses of Parliament, and was convicted on 15th of March, 1773
JOHN
LENNARD
Executed for Rape, 11th August, 1773
WILLIAM
FIELD ALIAS GREEN
Executed on Kennington Common, 1st of September, 1773, for
Highway Robbery
WILLIAM
COX
Who played Marbles and kept a Pet Sparrow to aid him in the
Commission of Robberies. Executed at Tyburn, 27th of October, 1773
ELIZABETH
HARRIET GREEVE
A clever Swindler, transported for Felony, in the Year 1773
JOHN
RANN
Commonly called "Sixteen-String Jack." Executed at Tyburn,
30th of November, 1774, for Highway Robbery
AMOS
MERRITT
Having saved an Innocent Man from the Gallows, he himself was
executed at Tyburn, 10th of January, 1775, for Burglary
JOHN
BOLTON
Convicted of murdering a girl he had seduced and made
pregnant, but cheated justice by committing suicide, 29th March, 1775
LAMBERT
READING
Hackney-Coachman and Leader of a Gang of Robbers, executed at
Chelmsford, 10th of August, 1775, for Burglary
JANE
BUTTERFIELD,
Tried for murder but acquitted, 19th August, 1775
THOMAS
AIKNEY AND ELIZABETH BROADINGHAM
Executed for the murder of Broadingham's husband, 20th March,
1776
DANIEL
AND ROBERT PERREAU
Twin Brothers, who, though popularly believed to be innocent,
were executed at Tyburn, 17th of January, 1776, for Forgery
MARGARET
CAROLINE RUDD
Tried for Forgery and acquitted
PETER
LE MAITRE
Convicted, 7th of March, 1777, of robbing the Ashmolean Museum
at Oxford
JAMES
HILL
Commonly called "John the Painter," an Incendiary, who aimed
at the Destruction of the Nation. Executed at Portsmouth, 10th of
March, 1777
JOSEPH
ARMSTRONG
Convicted of Murder, but cheated the Gallows by hanging
himself, 17th of March, 1777
DAVID
BROWN DIGNUM
Convicted, 5th of April, 1777, of fraudulently pretending to
sell Places under Government, and sentenced to Hard Labour on the
Thames
ANN
MARROW
Pilloried at Charing Cross, 22nd of July, 1777, for marrying
three Women
DR
WILLIAM DODD
Doctor of Divinity, Prebendary of Brecon, Chaplain-in-Ordinary
to his Majesty, and Minister to the Magdalen Hospital. Executed at
Tyburn, 27th of June, 1777, for Forgery
JOHN
HARRISON
An Assurance Corporation Accountant, who was convicted of
Forgery in 1777, but afterwards received his Majesty's Pardon
FRANCIS
MERCIER OTHERWISE LOUIS DE BUTTE
Executed in Prince's Street, opposite Swallow Street, in the
City of Westminster, 8th of December, 1777, for Murder
JOHN
HOLMES AND PETER WILLIAMS
Publicly whipped, by the Sentence of the Middlesex Court of
Quarter Sessions, for December, 1777, for stealing Dead Bodies
THE
REVEREND BENJAMIN RUSSEN,
Executed for rape, 12th December, 1777
JAMES
ELLIOT
Executed at Maidstone, in March, 1778, for a Forgery on the
Bank of England, attended with Circumstances which were left to the
Twelve Judges for determination
JOHN
PIERCE, VINCENT PIERCE AND ELIZABETH LUKER
Sentenced to Imprisonment for a Riot at Sadler's Wells Theatre
which occasioned the Death of Eighteen of the Audience
GEORGE
ROACH, ROBERT ELLIOT AND JONAS PARKER
Who were convicted, the first two of stealing, and the other
of receiving Part of a Lead Coffin from Aldermanbury Church, in 1778
ALEXANDER
SCOTT
City of London hoaxed by a False Proclamation of War, April,
1778
THOMAS
HORNER AND JAMES FRYER
Executed for Burglary and Robbery under Threats of Violence,
24th of June, 1778
FRANCIS
LEWIS OTHERWISE GRIMISON
Cobweb as a Clue to a Bogus Burglary committed by a Butler,
who was executed at Tyburn, 24th of June, 1778
MARY
KNIGHT
Executed for the murder of her child, 24th August, 1778
JOSEPH
RELPH
Who was indicted for Murder, and found guilty of Manslaughter.
JAMES
DONALLY
A Blackmailer, who was convicted of Highway Robbery, 22nd of
February, 1779
MORGAN
PHILLIPS
Executed for murder, robbery and arson, 5th April 1778
THE
REV. JAMES HACKMAN
Executed at Tyburn, 19th of April, 1779, for murdering Miss
Reay outside Covent Garden Theatre
JAMES
MATHISON
Who forged Bank-Notes so cleverly that they could not be
distinguished from Genuine Ones. Executed at Tyburn, 28th of July, 1779
ELIZABETH
BUTCHILL
Executed for infanticide, March 17th, 1780
A.
DURNFORD AND W. NEWTON
Executed at Tyburn, 22nd of November, 1780, for a Robbery
under Singular Circumstances
LORD
GEORGE GORDON
An Account of the Riots in London in 1780
JOHN
DONELLAN, ESQ
Executed for the Murder of Sir Theodosius Boughton, Bart., his
Brother-in-Law, 2nd of April, 1781
FRANCIS
HENRY DE LA MOTTE
A French Spy, who was executed at Tyburn, 27th of July, 1781,
for High Treason
WILLIAM
WYNNE RYLAND
Engraver to his Majesty. Executed at Tyburn, in August, 1783,
for forging a Bill of Exchange
RICHARD
CARPENTER
Convicted at the Lent Assizes, 1785, Hampshire, of forging
Seamen's Wills and executed at Winchester
CHARLES
PRICE
A Notorious Swindler and Bank-Note Forger, who committed
Suicide in 1786
MICHAEL
WALKER, RICHARD PAYNE AND ROBERT COX
Executed opposite Smart's Buildings, Holborn, London, 18th of
December, 1786, for Murder
JOHN
ELLIOT, M.D.
Acquitted of a Serious Crime, he killed himself, by Hunger-
Striking because of a Vindictive Sentence for a Minor Offence
HENRY
STERNE
Commonly called "Gentleman Harry." Convicted of stealing the
Duke of Beaufort's Pendant, 1787
THOMAS
DENTON
His Misapplied Talents led to his Downfall, and he was
executed before Newgate, 1st of July, 1789 for making Base Coin
THOMAS
GORDON
Executed at Northampton, 17th of August, 1789, for a Murder
ordered by his Mother
THOMAS
PHIPPS, ESQ., AND THOMAS PHIPPS, HIS SON
Executed for a Forgery committed by the Younger Man, who
exonerated his Father, 5th of September, 1789
WILLIAM
WARD
A boxer, convicted of manslaughter for killing his opponent.
SAMUEL
HINCHCLIFFE
Convicted at the Westminster Sessions in January, 1790,
Imprisoned and publicly whipped for a Fraudulent Trick
JOHN
DYER
A Westminster Schoolboy, executed at Newgate, 5th of August,
1790, for Forgery
EDWARD
LOWE AND WILLIAM JOBBINS
Young Incendiaries, who set fire to a House in order to
plunder it, and were executed in the City, 20th of November, 1790
RENWICK
WILLIAMS
Commonly called "The Monster." Convicted 13th Of December,
1790, of a brutal and wanton Assault on Miss Ann Porter
JOHN
BELVILLE
Convicted at the Old Bailey, 16th of February, 1791, for a
Robbery from "the Dwelling-House of her Majesty, called Buckingham
House"
WILLIAM
GADESBY
Executed for Robbery
BARTHOLOMEW
QUAILN
Executed, after a great Legal Argument, On 7th of March, 1791,
in the Isle of Ely, for the Murder of his Wife.
JOSEPH
WOOD AND THOMAS UNDERWOOD
Two Fourteen-year-old Boys, executed at Newgate, 6th of July,
1791, for robbing another Boy
NATHANIEL
LILLEY, JAMES MARTIN, MARY BRIANT, WILLIAM ALLEN, AND JOHN BUTCHER
Convicted of Returning from Transportation
JOSEPH
LORRISON
Known among Thieves as "Jumping Joe." Executed on Kennington
Common, 8th of August, 1792, for Robbery on the Highway
THE
REV. RICHARD BURGH, JOHN CUMMINGS, ESQ., CAPTAIN IN THE ARMY, TOWNLEY
M'CAN, ESQ., STUDENT OF LAW, JAMES DAVIS AND JOHN BOURNE
Convicted of a Conspiracy to set fire to the King's Bench
Prison, February, 1793
THE
REV. MR JACKSON
Convicted of Treason, in Dublin, 23rd of April, 1793, but who
died of Poison at the Bar of the Court, at the Moment Death would have
been pronounced upon him
LAURENCE
JONES
A Notorious Swindler, sentenced to Death in 1793, but who
hanged himself Three Days before the Date of his Execution
ELIZABETH
MARSH
A Fifteen-year-old Girl, executed for the Murder of her
Grandfather, March, 1794
HENRY
GOODIFF
A Boy condemned to Death for robbing a Pieman, who had
swindled him on Hounslow Heath, of a few Halfpence, March, 1794
ANNE
BROADRIC
Indicted for murdering a Man who had jilted her for another
Woman, 17th of July, 1794
LEWIS
JEREMIAH AVERSHAW
Executed on Kennington Common, 3rd of August, 1795, for
shooting a Peace Offcer in the act of apprehending him
KID
WAKE
Convicted and imprisoned for an assault upon his Majesty, on
the 20th of February, 1796
RICHARD
PARKER
The Chief of the Mutineers in the British Fleet. Executed at
the Yardarm of L'Espion Man-of-War in 1796, at
Sheerness
WILLIAM
LEE
Executed before Newgate, 20th of April, 1796, for Burglary
HENRY
WESTON
Betrayed his Employer's Confidence, committed Forgery, and was
executed before Newgate, 6th of July, 1796
CHARLES
SCOLDWELL
A Sheriff Officer, convicted of stealing Two Ducks, and
sentenced on 23rd of July, 1796, to Transportation for Seven Years
JOHN
CLARKE
Executed near Bromley, in Kent, 29th of July, 1796, for
murdering a Dairymaid
JOSEPH
HODGES AND RICHARD PROB1N
Convicted at the Old Bailey, 1796, of a Confidence Trick
called Cross-Dropping, and sentenced to Transportation
SARAH
PENELOPE STANLEY
The Female Trooper, convicted at the Old Bailey, in October
Sessions, 1796, of Petty Larceny
JAMES
M'KEAN
Executed for Murder, 25th of January, 1797, at Glasgow
MARTIN
CLENCH AND JAMES MACKLEY
Believed to be innocent of a Charge of Murder, they were
executed before Newgate, 5th of June, 1797, after the Gallows collapsed
REBECCA
HOWARD
Executed at Norwich, 27th of August, 1797, for the Murder of
her Illegitimate Child
THERESA
PHIPOE
Executed before Newgate, 11th of December, 1797, for Murder
GEORGE
WALDRON, alias BARRINGTON
The Gentleman-Pickpocket. Several times convicted, Sentenced
twice to hard labour on the Thames, and finally, on September 27, 1798,
transported to Botany Bay
ROBERT
LADBROKE TROYT
A Boy of Seventeen, executed before Newgate, 28th of November,
1798, for Forgery, his First Offence
JAMES
TURNBULL
A Private Soldier, executed before Newgate, 15th of May, 1799,
for robbing the Mint
MARGARET
HUGHES
Executed at Canterbury, 4th of July, 1799, for murdering her
Husband
Part III
JAMES
BRODIE
A Blind Man, who was executed in 1800 for the Murder of his
Boy Guide
RICHARD
FERGUSON
"Galloping Dick," convicted at the Lent Assizes, 1800, at
Aylesbury, and executed for a Highway Robbery
SARAH
LLOYD
Convicted of Larceny in April, 1800, and executed in spite of
Extraordinary Efforts to get her reprieved
JAMES
HADFIELD
Tried for shooting at his Majesty George III. at Drury Lane
Theatre, on Thursday, 15th of May, 1800
THOMAS
CHALFONT
A Post-Office Sorter, executed before Newgate, 11th of
November, 1800, for stealing a Bank-Note out of a Letter
JAMES
RILEY AND ROBERT NUTTS
Executed before Newgate, 24th of June, 1801, for Highway
Robbery
JOSEPH
WALL, ESQ.
Formerly Governor of Goree. Executed 28th of January, 1802,
nearly Twenty Years after committing the Crime, for ordering a Soldier
to be flogged to Death
HENRY
COCK
Executed before Newgate, 23rd of June, 1802 for Forgery,
whereby he swindled his Benefactor's Estate
WILLIAM
CODLIN
Executed 27th of November, 1802, for scuttling a Ship, of
which he was Captain
GEORGE
FOSTER
Executed at Newgate, 18th of January, 1803, for the Murder of
his Wife and Child, by drowning them in the Paddington Canal; with a
Curious Account of Galvanic Experiments on his Body
COLONEL
EDWARD MARCUS DESPARD, JOHN FRANCIS, JOHN WOOD, THOMAS BROUGHTON, JAMES
SEDGWICK WRATTON, ARTHUR GRAHAM AND JOHN MACNAMARA
Executed in Horsemonger Lane, Southwark, 21st of February,
1803, for High Treason
JOHN
TERRY AND JOSEPH HEALD
Executed under Extraordinary Circumstances at York, 21st of
March, 1803, for Murder
CAPTAIN
MACNAMARA
Who killed Colonel Montgomery in a Duel arising out of a
Quarrel about Dogs, and was acquitted on a Charge of Manslaughter
ROBERT
SMITH
Executed before Newgate for robbing Coachmen on the Highway,
8th of June, 1803
JOHN
HATFIELD
"The Keswick Impostor." Executed at Carlisle, 3rd of
September, 1803, for Forgery; with Particulars of the once celebrated
"Beauty of Buttermere," a victim to his Villainy.
ROBERT
EMMET
Executed for High treason, 20th of September, 1803
FRANCIS
SMITH
Condemned to Death on 13th of January, 1804, for the Murder
of the supposed Hammersmith Ghost, but pardoned soon afterwards
ANN
HURLE
Executed before Newgate, 8th of February, 1804, for Forgery,
at the Age of Twenty-two
ROBERT
ASLETT
Assistant Cashier of the Bank of England. Condemned to Death
for embezzling Exchequer Bills to a Large Amount, entrusted to his
Charge, and respited during his Majesty's Pleasure, 18th of November,
1804
RICHARD
HAYWOOD
A Violent and Hardened Sinner, who was executed along with
John Tennant, before Newgate, 30th of April, 1805, for Robbery
HENRY
PERFECT
A most plausible Begging-Letter Swindler, transported to
Botany Bay, in April, 1805
ELIZABETH
BARBER ALIAS DALY
Who smoked her Pipe after murdering a Pensioner. Executed
near Maidstone, 25th of May, 1805
WILLIAM
CUBITT
Executed in November, 1805, for stealing valuable Jewellery
from the Earl of Mansfield
THOMAS
PICTON, ESQ.
Late Governor of Trinidad. Convicted 24th of February, 1806,
of applying Torture, in order to extort Confession from a Girl
RICHARD
PATCH
Executed on the Top of the New Prison, in the Borough of
Southwark, 8th of April, 1806, for Murder, after a Trial at which
accommodation was provided for the Royal Family
CHARLES
HEMMINGS AND GEORGE BEVAN
Bogus Bow Street Officers who robbed a Clergyman, and were
executed, April, 1806
JOHN
DOCKE ROUVELETT ALIAS ROMNEY
After maliciously prosecuting a Woman he was executed at
Ilchester, at the Summer Assizes, 1806, in Somersetshire, for Forgery
JOHN
HOLLOWAY AND OWEN HAGGERTY
A Hundred Spectators were killed or injured in a Crush at the
Execution of these Men before Newgate, 22nd of February, 1807
JOHN
MAYCOCK
Executed 23rd of March, 1807, on the Top of the New Jail,
Horsemonger Lane, Southwark, for the Murder Of an old lone Lady, Mrs
Ann Pooley, in company with John Pope, who was admitted Evidence for
the Crown.
WILLIAM
DUNCAN
Convicted for the Murder of his Master, William Chivers,
Esq., and transported for Life, March, 1807
GEORGE
ALLEN
An Epileptic, who was executed at Stafford, 30th of March,
1807, for the Murder of his Three Children
MARTHA
ALDEN
Executed, 31st of July, 1807, for murdering her Husband in a
Cottage near Attleborough, Norfolk
ROBERT
POWELL
A Starving Fortune-Teller, who was convicted by the Middlesex
Magistrates of being a Rogue and Vagabond, 1807
JOHN
ALMOND
Convicted at the December Sessions, 1807, of forging a Will,
and executed before Newgate
RICHARD
OWEN
Convicted of Cross-Dropping, and sentenced to Transportation,
at the Old Bailey, January Sessions, 1808
WILLIAM
WALKER
A Soldier in the Middlesex Militia. Sentenced to Death for a
Highway Robbery of Sixpence and a Penny-Piece, but reprieved at the
Request of his Victim, February, 1808
THOMAS
SIMMONS
Executed at Hertford, 7th of March, 1808, for a Double Murder
JOHN
SHEPHERD
Convicted, at Lancaster, of a Riot and setting fire to the
Prison, June, 1808
HECTOR
CAMPBELL, ESQ.
Fined and imprisoned, in the Year 1808, for acting as a
Physician without a Licence
ALEXANDER
CAMPBELL, ESQ.
Brevet-Major in the Army, and a Captain in the 21st Regiment
of Foot. Executed 24th of August, 1808, at Armagh, in Ireland, for
murdering a Brother Official, whom he killed in a Duel
JAMES
WOOD
Convicted at the Cumberland Summer Assizes, 1808, and
executed for a Double Murder
JAMES
INWOOD
Convicted of Manslaughter in killing William Goodman, who had
been detected in robbing a fishery, October, 1808
JOHN
RYAN AND MATHEW KEARINGE
Executed in Ireland, for Arson and Murder, 1808
THE
REV. ABRAHAM ASHWORTH,
Sentenced in 1808 to Three Years' Imprisonment in Lancaster
Jail, for ill-treating his Female Pupils
JOHN
NICHOLLS
A Wholesale Bank-Note Forger, convicted at the January
Sessions at the Old Bailey, 1809, and executed before Newgate
MARGARET
CRIMES ALIAS BARRINGTON
Executed before Newgate, 22nd of February, 1809, for taking a
False Oath, and thereby obtaining Letters of Administration to the
Effects of a Soldier
MARY
BATEMAN
Commonly called the Yorkshire Witch, Executed for Murder
HENRY
HUNT
A Driver of the Norwich Mail. Convicted of stealing a Gold
Watch sent by his Coach, 8th of April, 1809
WILLIAM
PROUDLOVE AND GEORGE GLOVER
Executed at Chester, 28th of May, 1809, for Salt-Stealing,
after a First Attempt to hang them had failed
CAPTAIN
JOHN SUTHERLAND
Commander of the British Armed Transport, The
Friends. Executed at Execution Dock, on the Banks of the
Thames, 29th of June, 1809, for the Murder of his Cabin-Boy.
HENRY
WHITE AND JAMES SMITH
Well-equipped and armed Burglars, who were sentenced to Death
at the Old Bailey, 3rd of July, 1809
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
EDWARD
EDWARDS
A Young but Artful Thief, transported for stealing privately
from a Shop in London, October, 1809
JAMES
MARLBOROUGH, AND SARAH, HIS WIFE
Imprisoned for Gross Cruelty to their Child, 8th of December,
1809
GEORGE
WEBB
Son of a Clergyman, and a Notorious Burglar. Executed on
Shooter's Hill, near London, 1809
RICHARD
TURNER
A Young but Artful Swindler, transported to Botany Bay for
Fourteen years for cheating a Young Lady
JOHN
LUMLEY
Imprisoned, and whipped through the Streets of the Borough of
Southwark, for stealing Pewter Pint-Pots from Public-Houses, January,
1810
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 "
HENRY
CLARKE
Convicted at the Old Bailey, 20th of February, 1810, for
robbing a Mail-Coach, and sentenced to Death
WILLIAM
COLMAN
A Convict on board the Hulks, at Woolwich. Executed on
Pennington Heath, 26th of March, 1810, for the Murder of a
Fellow-Prisoner
WILLIAM
COOPER AND WILLIAM DRAPER
Convicted of cutting off Trunks from a Gentleman's Carriage;
the Former was transported for Seven Years, and the Latter imprisoned
for Six Months in the House of Correction, 1810
RICHARD
FAULKNER
A Boy, executed at Wisbech, in 1810, for the Murder of
another Lad of Twelve Years of Age
EDWARD
WILLIAM ROBERTS, -- BROWN, and DOROTHY COLE, alias MRS BROWN
Convicted in the Court of King's Bench, of a conspiracy, and
the two first imprisoned and pilloried
RICHARD
VALENTINE THOMAS
Executed at the New Prison, in Horsemonger Lane, 3rd of
September, 1810, for Forgery
HENRY
GRIFFIN
Indicted at the Old Bailey, at the September Sessions, 1810,
for the Murder of his Wife, found guilty of Manslaughter, and fined
WILLIAM
HITCHIN
Transported for Seven Years for stealing an Exchequer Bill,
September, 1810
THOMAS
BELLAMY AND JOHN LANEY
Watchmen, convicted of assaulting those whom they were bound
to protect, September, 1810
JOHN
DAVISON, ESQ.
A Captain in the Royal Marines, convicted of stealing a Piece
of Muslin from a Shopkeeper at Taunton, 13th of November, 1810
MARY
JONES AND ELIZABETH PAINE
Transported for Seven Years, November Sessions, 1810, at the
Old Bailey for Shoplifting
THOMAS
KIMPTON
Convicted at the Middlesex Sessions, December, 1810 of a
Violent Assault on a Juryman of the Court Leet, and sentenced to
Imprisonment
WILLIAM
BRITTON
Convicted at the Sessions at the Old Bailey, December, 1810,
of stealing from a coffee-house bedroom, and sentenced to
transportation
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
EDWARD
BEAZLEY
A Boy, whipped in Newgate for destroying Women's Apparel with
Aqua Fortis, 11th of March, 1811
WILLIAM
TOWNLEY
Convicted of Burglary, and executed at Gloucester, 23rd of
March, 1811, a Few Minutes before a Reprieve arrived
MICHAEL
WHITING
Methodist Preacher, sentenced to Death for poisoning his Two
Brothers-in-Law, with an Intent to possess himself of their Property,
1811
RICHARD
ARMITAGE AND C. THOMAS
Clerks in the Bank of England, executed before Newgate, 24th
of June, 1811, for Forgery
MARY
GREEN
Convicted of putting off Base Coin, and sentenced to Six
Months' Imprisonment, 5th of April, 1811
THE
HONOURABLE ARTHUR WILLIAM HODGE
One of the Members of his Majesty's Council in Tortola, an
Island subject to Great Britain, in the West Indies, executed there on
the 8th of May, 1811, for the Murder of his Negro Slave
THOMAS
LEACH AND ELIZABETH, HIS WIFE
The Former transported for uttering Forged Bank-Notes, and
the Latter condemned to Death, July, 1811
JOHN
STANLEY, THOMAS JEFFRY, W. BRAINE AND WILLIAM BRUNT
London Boot Operatives who were imprisoned for conspiring to
obtain Better Wages, August, 1811
JANE
COX
Executed at Exeter Summer Assizes, 1811, for poisoning a
Child with Arsenic
JAMES
DALE
A Chimney-Sweep, who descended Chimneys to break into Houses,
and was convicted on 9th September, 1811
ARTHUR
BAILEY
Executed at Ilchester, 11th of September, 1811, for stealing
a Letter from the Post Office at Bath
WILLIAM
BEAVAN
A Burglar, who was identified by his Deformed Hand, and was
executed before Newgate, 19th of September, 1811
DANIEL
DAVIS
A Postal Letter-Carrier, convicted at the September Sessions,
1811, at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to Death, for stealing a Letter
containing Ten Pounds
ELIZABETH
KING
Sentenced to Death at the Old Bailey, for privately stealing
a Bag of Gold, 21st of September, 1811
AGNES
ADAMS
Convicted at the Middlesex Sessions, 1811, and sentenced to
Six Months' Imprisonment for uttering a "Bank of Fleet" Note
RICHARD
PAYNE AND JOHN MALONEY
Convicted, October Sessions, 1811, at the Old Bailey, and
sentenced to Death, for robbing a Man whom they had accused of being an
Ex-Convict
WILLIAM
ROGERS
Overseer of Carpenters, employed at the Lyceum Theatre,
transported, October Sessions, 1811, for embezzling Timber, and making
False Charges to his Employer
TUCKER,
THE MOCK PARSON
Convicted at the Middlesex Sessions, 2nd of November, 1811,
for swindling a Victualler of his Wine, and transported for Seven Years
HARRIET
MAGNIS
Tried for child stealing, 1811
JOHN
WILLIAMS
Who, after committing a series of horrible murders, in 1811
escaped the gallows by hanging himself in Prison
JOHN
CLAYTON and WILLIAM JENKINS
Executed for Burglary
COLONEL
BROWNE
An American Loyalist, convicted in the Court of King's Bench
at Westminster, 21st of February, 1812, of Forgery at Common Law, and
Sentenced to Imprisonment in Newgate
BENJAMIN
WALSH, ESQ., M.P.
Convicted in 1812 of feloniously stealing a Large Sum of
Money from Sir Thomas Plomer, his Majesty's Solicitor-General, and
pardoned on a Case reserved for the Opinion of the Twelve Judges
GEORGE
SKENE
Chief Clerk of the Queen Square Police Office, Westminster.
Executed before Newgate, 18th of March, 1812, for Forgery
JOHN
BELLINGHAM
Executed for the Murder of the Right Honourable Spencer
Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, by shooting him in the House of
Commons, in May, 1812
BENJAMIN
RENSHAW
Executed, after an Abortive Attempt, at Nottingham, 29th of
August, 1812, for setting fire to a Haystack
DANIEL
DAWSON
Convicted at Cambridge Summer Assizes, 1812, and executed for
Poisoning Racehorses at Newmarket
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
THOMAS
LIGHT, alias JOHN JONES, alias THOMAS KNIGHT.
Tried for stealing dead bodies from St. Giles' Churchyard
EDWARD
TURNER
A pugilist, convicted of manslaughter for killing his
opponent, 22nd October, 1812
LIEUTENANT
GAMAGE
Late of the Griffon Sloop-of-War, hanged at the Yardarm of
that Ship, in November, 1812, for the Murder of a Sergeant of Marines
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
THE
MARQUIS OF SLIGO
Convicted of enticing British Seamen to desert, fined Five
Thousand Pounds, and imprisoned Four Months in Newgate, 16th of
December, 1812
JOACHIM,
a Portuguese; MARTIN, a black; MILLINGTON, an Irishman; and WILLIAMS,
an Englishman
Tried and executed for mutiny and murder of their officers,
while making an English port, in a French prize brig, December, 1812
JOHN
AND LEIGH HUNT
Imprisoned for a Libel on His Royal Highness the Prince
Regent
HENRY
MORRIS
Transported for Bigamy
WILLIAM
CORNWELL
A Murderer, who was traced by a Watch he had sold, and was
executed in 1813
PHILIP
NICHOLSON
Executed on Pennenden Heath, August 23, 1813, for the Murder
of Mr and Mrs Bonar
W.
H. HOLLINGS
Executed for the Murder of Elizabeth Pitcher
THOMAS
SHARPE
Executed October 31, 1814, for the horrid murder in Kentish
Town
ELIZA
FENNING
A Cook, who was convicted of placing Arsenic in Dumplings,
and executed, 26th of June, 1815, after Solemn Protestations of
Innocence
THOMAS
BROCK, JOHN PELHAM, and MICHAEL POWER
Convicted of Coining, 25th of September, 1816
CASHMAN,
HOOPER, GAMBLE, GUNNELL, CARPENTER, HUNT, AND WATSON
The Spafields rioters, 1817
GEORGE
BARNETT
Charged with shooting at Miss Frances Maria Kelly, Actress,
in Drury Lane Theatre, 17th of February, 1816
THE
ASHCROFTS AND WILIAM HOLDEN
Tried at the Lancaster Assizes for the Murder of Margaret
Marsden and Hannah Partington, 5th September, 1817
WILLIAM
HAITCH
Who Murdered Mary Minting, destroyed himself, and was buried
at a cross-road
MICHAEL
SHIPMAN
Tried and convicted for administering drugs to a young lady,
for an infamous purpose, 1818
ABRAHAM
THORNTON
Acquitted on a Charge of murdering a Girl, and on being
rearrested claimed Trial by Battle, April, 1818
DAVID
OWEN
Tried and executed for a diabolical attempt to murder his
sister, her husband, and their servant maid, 4th April, 1818
MARY
STONE
Tried for Child Murder on a charge preferred by her sister,
August 1818
GEORGE
CHENNEL AND J. CHALCRAFT
Executed August, 1818 for the atrocious murder of Chennel's
father and his Housekeeper, at Godalming
CHARLES
HUSSEY
Who murdered a Wealthy Tradesman and his Housekeeper, and was
executed on 3rd of August, 1818
ROBERT
JOHNSTON
Executed for Robbery, On 30th of December 1818, after
Shocking Scenes on the Scaffold
SAMUEL
SIBLEY; MARIA CATHERINE SIBLEY; SAMUEL JONES; his son; THOMAS JONES;
JOHN ANGEL; THOMAS SMITH; JAMES DODD and EDWARD SLATER
Deluded followers of Joanna Southcott, the sham prophetess,
tried for rioting, 13th of January, 1819
ROBERT
DEAN
Executed for the dreadful murder of a child, at Leeds, 1819
HENRY
STENT
A case of seduction, and attempted assassination
PEI
A captured and liberated negro, tried for the murder and
cannibalism of Zongobia, another captured negro slave, at
Charlotte-town, Sierra Leone, July 1819
JOHN
SCANLAN and STEPHEN SULLIVAN
The murderers of the Colleen Bawn
MRS
MARY RIDDING
A Captain's Wife, who was sent to Prison for stealing a
Child, 28th of August, 1819
SIR
FRANCIS BURDETT
Fined Two Thousand Pounds at the Leicester Assizes, 23rd of
March, 1820, and sent to Prison for Three Months for a Seditious Libel
ARTHUR
THISTLEWOOD, JAMES INGS, JOHN THOMAS BRUNT, RICHARD TIDD AND WILLIAM
DAVIDSON
Leaders in the Cato Street Conspiracy
PHILIP
HAINES AND MARY CLARKE
Executed at Leicester for the murder of Mr. John Clarke,
March 1821
JOHN
SMITH
A Greenwich Pensioner, eighty years of age, executed 23rd of
December, 1822, for the murder of a woman with whom he had cohabited
DANIEL
DOODY, JOHN CUSSEN, alias WALSH, JAMES LEAHY, MAURICE LEAHY, WILLIAM
DOODY, DAVID LEAHY, DANIEL RIEDY, WILLIAM COSTELLO, AND WALTER
FITZMAURICE, alias CAPTAIN ROCK
Convicted of Abduction, 1822/1823
PHILIP
STOFFEL AND CHARLES KEPPEL
Guilt of Murder disclosed by a Prisoner's Ignorance of
Spelling, 1823
HENRY
FAUNTLEROY
A Partner in a Leading Banking-House, who forged Securities
of the Value of One Hundred and Seventy Thousand Pounds, and was
executed at Newgate on 30th of November, 1824
CORNELIUS
WOOD
Executed at the Old Bailey for the Violation and Robbery of
Mary Ayres
EDWARD
HARRIS, alias KIDDY HARRIS
One of a desperate Gang of Thieves and Ruffians, executed for
a brutal Assault (with intent to Murder), committed on Sarah Drew, in
Hackney Fields
GEORGE
ALEXANDER WOOD AND ALEXANDER WELLESLEY LEITH
Eton College Boys, indicted for Manslaughter, 9th of March,
1825, as the Result of a Two-Hours' Fierce Fight
EDWARD
GIBBON WAKEFIELD, WILLIAM WAKEFIELD AND FRANCES WAKEFIELD
Romance of a Wealthy Heiress who was abducted, and married at
Gretna Green
WILLIAM
CORDER
Executed 11th of August, 1828, for the Murder of Maria
Marten, in the Red Barn, the Crime being revealed to the Victim's
Mother in Three Dreams
JOSEPH
HUNTON
A Wealthy Quaker, who committed a Series of Forgeries in the
City of London, and was executed 8th of December, 1828
ESTHER
HIBNER THE ELDER, ESTHER HIBNER THE YOUNGER, AND ANN ROBINSON
Tried for the Murder of a Parish Apprentice, who died as the
Result of Inhuman Treatment, 10th of April, 1829
WILLIAM
BANKS
Executed at Horsemonger Lane Jail, 11th of January, 1830, for
an Armed Burglary
WILLIAM
BURKE
Who, with his accomplice Hare, murdered persons to sell their
bodies to the anatomists. Executed 28th of January 1830
CAPTAIN
WILLIAM MOIR
Executed on 2nd August, 1830, for murdering a Fisherman who
had trespassed on his Farm at Barking, Essex
JOHN
SMITH, alias WILLIAM SAPWELL
Executed for the Murder of a Policeman
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
JOHN
TAYLOR AND THOMAS MARTIN
A Body-Snatcher's Humorous Story of his Adventure, as told at
the London Sessions, 21st of April, 1831
JOSEPH
PLANT STEVENS
A Trickster, who was transported for robbing a Guileless
Farmer, 25th of May, 1831
LEWIS
LEWIS, RICHARD LEWIS, DAVID HUGHES, THOMAS VAUGHAN, DAVID THOMAS, AND
OTHERS
The Merthyr Tydfil rioters, June 1831
JOHN
AMY BIRD BELL
A Fourteen-year-old Criminal, who murdered another Boy for
the sake of Nine Shillings, and was executed on 1st August, 1831
JOHN
BISHOP AND THOMAS WILLIAMS
Notorious Body-Snatchers, who murdered People and sold their
Bodies to Hospitals, and were executed at Newgate, 5th of December,
1831
JOHN
HOLLOWAY
Executed on 16th of December, 1831, for the Murder of his
Wife, whose Dismembered Body was discovered amid Rustic Surroundings
HENRY
MACNAMARA
Hotel Jewel Thief, who was transported for committing several
Robberies, 21st of May, 1832
DENNIS
COLLINS
Convicted of High Treason, in throwing a Stone at King
William IV. at Ascot Races, 19th of June, 1832
JONATHAN
SMITHERS
Executed 9th of July, 1832, for setting fire to his Shop in
Oxford Street, and causing the Death of Three People
JAMES
COOK
Executed 10th of August, 1832, for the Murder of Mr Paas,
whose Remains he attempted to destroy by Fire
WILLIAM
JOHNSON
Executed at Newgate, 7th of January, 1833, for murdering a
Wig Maker's Son, whose Body was found in a Ditch
JOB
COX
Convicted in May, 1833, of stealing a Letter, he narrowly
escaped Execution, owing to the City Recorder's Blunder
GEORGE
FURSEY
Acquitted of stabbing two policement during the Calthorpe
Street Riot, 30th May 1833
JAMES
LOVELACE and others
The Tolpuddle Martyrs, transported for forming a trade union,
1834
PATRICK
CARROLL
Executed 18th of May, 1835, for Murder. Origin of the Central
Criminal Court
ROBERT
SALMON
Convicted of Manslaughter, in administering "Morison's
Pills," and fined Two Hundred Pounds, 4th of April, 1836
JOHN
MINTER HART
A Cheating Money-Lender, who was transported for Life, 16th
of December, 1836, for forging a Bill of Exchange
THOMAS
MEARS AND OTHERS
The Canterbury Rioters, 31st May 1838.
FRANCIS
LIONEL ELIOT, EDWARD DELVES BROUGHTON, JOHN YOUNG AND HENRY WEBBER
Indicted for a Murder committed in a Duel on Wimbledon Common
on 22nd of August, 1838
FRANCIS
HASTINGS MEDHURST
Convicted on 13th of April, 1839, of the Manslaughter of a
Schoolfellow
GEORGE
CANT
Convicted of Rape, 31st October 1839
WILLIAM
JOHN MARCHANT
A young Footman, who was hanged for murdering a Housemaid in
a Magistrate's Drawing-Room
ROBERT
TAYLOR
Convicted of bigamy, 29th of June, 1840
FRANCOIS
BENJAMIN COURVOISIER
Executed, 6th of July, 1840, for murdering Lord William
Russell while sleeping in his House in Norfolk Street, Park Lane
EDWARD
OXFORD
Tried on 9th of July, 1840, for High Treason, in shooting at
Queen Victoria while riding along Constitution Hill with Prince Albert,
and found insane
THE
EARL OF CARDIGAN
Tried on 16th of February, 1841, at the Bar of the House of
Lords, for an Assault committed in a Duel
WILLIAM
STEVENSON
Transported, 17th of March, 1841, for stealing a Bag of Gold
from his Employers
JAMES
INGLETT
Convicted, at the Age of Ninety-four, of the Manslaughter of
a Woman, by carelessly administering Arsenic to her
HUFFEY
WHITE AND RICHARD KENDALL
Executed at Northampton, for Robbing the Leeds Mail
RICHARD
CORDUY
Imprisoned Two Years in Chelmsford Jail for robbing the Royal
Forest at Waltham of Six Pieces of Wood
PRIVATE
HALES
Pitiful Scene in an Attempt to hang him at Jersey
MARTHA
DAVIS
Sentenced to Death for robbing a Foot-Boy while on an Errand
for his Master
JOHN
ROBINSON
Executed at York, for a most cruel and deliberate Murder of a
Servant-Girl
LEVI
MORTGEN AND JOSEPH LUPPA
Two Swindling Jews, transported for Seven Years for a
Conspiracy to defraud
ELIZABETH
MIDDLETON
Imprisoned for Fourteen Days for Shocking Cruelty to her
Orphan Apprentice
JOHN
MUCKETT
A Soldier, who was executed at Chelmsford for the Murder of
his Wife, with whom he quarrelled because he had no Potatoes for Dinner
PATRICK
M'DONALD
A Poor Boy, convicted at the Old Bailey of stealing, and
presented with a Deluge of Shillings
JAMES
BULLOCK
Executed, under the Bankruptcy Act, for a Felonious
Embezzlement
FREDERICK
SMITH ALIAS HENRY ST JOHN
Convicted at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to Transportation
for a Curious Kind of Fraud
SAMUEL
OLIVER
A Shop-Boy, transported for Seven Years for committing a
Petty Theft
THOMAS
WHITE AND WALTER WYATT
Two Thieves, who were the First Criminals to be executed at
Oxford by the new system
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JAMES
SWEENY, RICHARD PEARCE, EDMUND BUCKLEY, PATRICK FLEMING, MAURICE
BRENWICK, AND JOHN SULLIVAN,
Convicted of Murder in an Affray
WILLIAM
MOULDS
Executed for The Murder of William Turner
RICHARD
VALENTINE THOMAS,
Executed for Forgery
JOHN
WHITMORE, ALIAS OLD DASH,
Executed for a Rape
JAMES
FALLAN,
Executed for the Murder of his Wife.
FREDERIC
BARDIE, Alias PETER WOOD,
A French Prisoner of War, Executed for Cutting and Maiming.
ANTONIO
CARDOZA,
Executed for the Murder of Thomas Davis
WILLIAM
TOWNLEY,
Executed for Burglary.
RICHARD
ANDREWS AND ALEXANDER HALL,
Transported for Fraud
LORD
LOUTH
Convicted for Abuse of his Authority as a Magistrate.
WILLIAM
HEBBERFIELD,
Executed for Forgery.
WILLIAM
JEMMET,
Executed for Robbery on the High Seas.
WILLIAM
CUNDELL AND JOHN SMITH,
Prisoners of War who Went over to the French,
THOMAS
BOWLER,
Executed for Maliciously Firing at Mr. Burrowes.
JOHN
LOMAS AND EDITH MORREY,
Executed for the Murder of Edith Morrey's Husband.
JOSEPH
SIMMONS WINTER, BENJAMIN ALLEN, WILLIAM TAYLOR, JOHN IVEY, &
ROBERT COOPER
The Three First Executed for Stealing Silk, and the Two
Latter Transported for Receiving it, Knowing it to be Stolen.
CHARLES
FREDERICK PALM AND SAMUEL TILLING
Executed for Mutiny and Murder
WILLIAM
BROWN,
Executed for the Murder of a Child.
ROBERT
TOWERS,
Imprisoned for Endeavouring to Bribe a Turnkey of Newgate.
WILLIAM
BOOTH
Executed for Forgery.
THOMAS
NUGENT, & JOHN & WILLIAM FOLKARD,
Pilloried for Attempting to Defraud the Creditors of John
Folkard.
THE
LUDDITES
Guilty of Rioting and Administering Unlawful Oaths.
WILLIAM
HOWE, ALIAS JOHN WOOD,
Executed for the Murder of Mr. Robins.
ANTONIO
TARDIT
A French Prisoner-of-war, Executed for the Murder of a
Fellow-Prisoner.
AZUBAH
FOUNTAIN AND GEORGE TURNER ROWELL
Executed for the Murder of Fountain's Husband.
ROBERT
KENNETT,
Executed for Forgery.
WILLIAM
BADCOCK, R. BRADY, Alias OXFORD BOB, AND S. HILL
Executed for Forgery.
DAVID
SPREADBURY,
Executed for Forgery.
JOHN
BRITAIN,
Executed for the Murder of his Wife.
JOSEPH
RICHARDSON, JAMES SYMONS, AND NATHAN SYMONS;
The Two First Convicted of Stealing, the Last for Receiving
Stolen Goods.
LUKE
HEATH,
Executed for Murder.
JOHN
HANNAH
Executed for the Murder of his Wife.
MICHAEL
M'ILVENA,
Executed for Celebrating a Marriage, He Being a Layman.
JAMES
LEARY,
Executed for the Murder of Edward Clifford.
JOHN
DENTON,
Executed for the Murder of Mrs. Denton.
THOMAS
FOSS,
Executed for Forgery
CHARLES
CALLAGHAN,
Executed for the Murder of Miss Gompertz's Butler.
JOHN
DREW MAY,
Executed for Forgery.
JOHN
ASHTON,
At his Execution, he Jumped back onto the Scaffold, and had
to be Pushed off again.
JAMES
MITCHELL,
Executed for the Murder of Miss Welchman.
JOHN
JAMES
Executed for Murder.
ADMIRAL
BRADLEY
Transported for Forgery.
WILLIAM
QUIN
Imprisoned and Whipped for a Malicious Assault on a
Strike-breaker
MAJOR
J. G. SEMPLE, ALIAS LISLE
Several Times Convicted of Swindling and Theft.
CHARLES
WELLER
Convicted of Stealing Notes and Bills.
SARAH
STONE
Transported for Stealing a Child
ANNE
RADFORD
Transported for Perjury.
WILLIAM
SAWYER
Executed for the Murder of Harriet Garrett.
THOMAS
JESSON
Executed for the Murder of a Child.
JOHN
MURDOCH
Executed for the Murder of James Murdoch.
JOHN
ELLEM
Executed for Ravishing a Young Girl
ELIZABETH
DREW,
Tried for Robbery.
WILLIAM
BRADFORD
Executed for Forgery.
ELIZABETH
WOOLLERTON
Executed for Poisoning.
ELIZABETH
HUNTER AND REBECCA JARVIS
Convicted of Roasting a Child.
JEREMIAH
GRANT
Executed for Burglary.
JAMES
MARSH
Executed for Murder.
THOMAS
CARSON
Condemned for the Murder of C. Cassidy, but escaped by
changing clothes with his brother.
CAPTAIN
GEORGE HARROWER
Convicted of Bigamy.
SUSANNAH
HOLROYD
Executed for Poisoning her Husband and Two Children.
GEORGE
VAUGHAN, ROBERT MACKEY, AND GEORGE BROWN
Convicted of a Conspiracy.
ROGER
O'CONNOR, ESQ.
Indicted for Robbing the Mail.
PATRICK
DEVANN.
Executed for the Murder of the Lynch Family in Wildgoose
Lodge.
JAMES
HARRY, ALIAS HARRIS
Executed for the Murder of his Wife.
JEREMIAH
BRANDRETH, WILLIAM TURNER, AND ISAAC LUDLAM
Executed for High Treason.
DR.
LAURENCE HYNES HALLORAN
Transported For Forging A Frank.
SAMUEL
DICK
Convicted of Abduction and Rape.
JOHN
DRISCOL, WILLIAM WELLER, & GEORGE CASHMAN
Executed for Forgery.
JOHN
KINNEAR, MOSELY WOOLF, AND LEWIS LEVY,
Convicted of Conspiracy.
ROBERT
JOHNSTON.
Executed for Robbery after an Attempted Rescue from the
Scaffold
HENRY
HUNT
A Speaker at the Peterloo Massacre,
JACOB
MAGENNIS
Executed for Shooting a Constable.
JAMES
LIGHTFOOT,
Executed for the Murder of Thomas Maxwell.
JAMES
NESBETT.
Executed for the Murder of Mr. Parker and his Housekeeper.
ROSALIE
CURCHOD
Indicted for Child-Murder, but Acquitted.
JAMES
MACKCOULL, alias MOFFAT
Convicted Of Robbery after a Long Career as a Thief.
FREDERICK
WHITE
Wrongly Convicted of Highway Robbery, but Pardoned.
JOHN
THOMPSON AND JOHN BARNICOAT
Executed for the Murder of William Hancock.
BRIDGET
BUTTERLY AND BRIDGET ENNIS
Executed for the Murder of Miss Thompson.
DAVID
HAGGART, ALIAS JOHN WILSON, ALIAS
JOHN MORRISON, ALIAS BARNEY M'COUL, ALIAS
JOHN M'COLGAN ALIAS DANIEL O'BRIEN, ALIAS
THE SWITCHER
Executed for the Murder of a Warder in a Jail-break.
JOHN
M'NAMARA AND THOMAS MALONY
Executed for the Murder of Mrs. Torrins.
SAMUEL
DENMORE HAYWARD,
Executed for Burglary.
WILLIAM
WELSH, EDWARD DOOHERTY, LAURENCE WELSH, AND WILLIAM MARTIN.
Executed for the Murder of Mr. Hoskins.
ROBERT
HARTLEY
Executed for Wilfully Stabbing.
JOHN
KEYS
Executed for Parricide.
JOHN
NEWTON
Executed for the Murder of his Wife.
JONATHAN
COOK
Executed for a Rape on a Child.
JAMES
WILSON
Convicted of an Attempt to Commit Incest.
THOMAS CHARLES FITZHUE SANDON, ESQ.
Transported for Fraud.
JOHN
THURTELL AND JOSEPH HUNT.
Convicted of Murder.
JOHN
HILL WAGSTAFF,
Executed for Forgery.
AMY
GEORGE
Indicted for the Murder of her Brother.
THE
REV. JOHN CARROLL
Indicted for the Murder of a Child, but Found Insane.
HENRY
SAVARY,
Convicted of Forgery.
WILLIAM
PROBERT
Executed for Horse-Stealing.
ALEXANDER
PIERCE
Executed for Murder and Cannibalism.
CHARLES
LYNN.
Tried for Murder.
JAMES
EVANS
Tried for the Murder of Thomas Price.
SAMUEL
GILBERT,
Indicted for Robbery.
ALEXANDER
AND MICHAEL M'KEAND
Executed for Murder.
CHARLES
THOMAS WHITE
Executed for Arson.
WILLIAM
BURT
Executed for the Murder of his Infant Son.
JOHN
PEELE, alias GEORGE WATSON
Executed for Forgery.
WILLIAM
SHEEN.
Tried for the Murder of his Child.
RICHARD
BOWERS
Transported for "Duffing."
JOSHUA
SLADE
Executed for the Murder of the Rev. J. Waterhouse.
WILLIAM
MILLER
Executed for the Violation and Murder of Mary Anne Lane.
WILLIAM
JONES
Tried for the Murder of Elizabeth Jeffe.
WILLIAM
HOWARD
Convicted of an Assault with Intent to Rob.
CAPTAIN
JOHN BURGH MONTGOMERY, alias COLONEL WALLACE, alias COLONEL MORGAN
Convicted of Forgery, but Poisoned Himself the Night before
his Execution.
ANN
HARRIS, JOHN COX THE ELDER, JOHN COX THE YOUNGER, ROBERT COX, AND JAMES
PUGH
Convicted of Murder.
JONATHAN
MARTIN
A Madman who Set Fire to York Minster.
JOHN
STACEY, THE YOUNGER AND JOHN STACEY, THE ELDER
The First
RICHARD
GIFFORD
Executed for Forgery.
JAMES
BELL
Transported for Stealing a Body.
WILLIAM
BANKS
Executed for Burglary.
ROBERT
EMOND
Executed for Murder.
AGRICULTURAL
RIOTS
The Followers of "Captain Swing"
WILLIAM
SWALLOW, alias WALDON; GEORGE JAMES DAVIS, alias GEORGE HUNTLEY;
WILLIAM WATTS, alias CHARLES WILLIAMS; ALEXANDER STEPHENSON, alias
TELFORD; and JOHN BEVERIDGE, alias ANDERSON.
Tried for Mutiny and Piracy.
LUKE
DILLON
Transported for Rape.
IKEY
alias ISAAC SOLOMON
Transported for Receiving Stolen Goods.
WILLIAM
GILCHRIST, GEORGE GILCHRIST, and JAMES BROWN
Tried for a Coach Robbery.
WILLIAM
KING
Imprisoned for Robbery.
MARY
ANNE HIGGINS, AND EDWARD CLARKE
Tried for Murder.
EDWARD
HOGSDEN
Executed for Raping his Daughter.
ELIZABETH
ROSS
Executed for a "Burking "Murder.
THE
REFORM RIOTS
1831-2.
WILLIAM
KENNEDY and WILLIAM BROWN
Tried for a Murder Committed on the River Thames.
JAMES
BERRYMAN and THOMAS BERRYMAN
The one Hanged, and the Other Transported, For a Burglary in
which the Victim was Blinded for Life.
RICHARD
COSTER
Transported for Forgery after a Long Career as a Crooked
Businessman.
ALFRED
RAE.
Convicted of a Criminal Assault.
JAMES
PAGE
Transported for Maliciously Wounding Cattle.
JOHN
EDWARDS, alias HEATH; PETER LEGASSER; AND JEREMIAH WEEDON
Imprisoned for Kidnapping a Solicitor to Extort a Client's
Money from him.
JOSEPH
MOSELEY AND WILLIAM GARSIDE
Trades Unionists who Murdered a Grinding Employer, Executed
after a Long Delay.
EDWARD
CHALKER AND JEREMY KEYS
Poachers, Tried for Murder of a Gamekeeper.
MARY
ANNE BURDOCK
Executed for Murder.
HENRY
STANYNOUGHT.
Tried for the Murder of his Son.
ROBERT
BALLS, THOMAS HARRIS, and MORDECAI MOSES.
Transported for Forgery.
WILLIAM
SUMMERS.
Transported for Larceny.
WILLIAM
JOURDAN, alias LEARY; THOMAS SULLIVAN; HENRY MOTT; AND WILLIAM SEALE.
Transported for a Robbery at the Custom-House.
JAMES
HILLS, WILLIAM HARLEY, AND WILLIAM FISHER, alias CURLY BILL.
Tried for Burglary.
HENRY
WILLIAMS
Transported for Burglary
GEORGE
EDWARD PEACOCK.
Transported for Forgery.
JOHN
PEGSWORTH.
Executed for Murder.
CHARLES
W. PENRUDDOCK.
A Student, Convicted of Assaulting an Examiner who asked him
Difficult Questions.
JAMES
GREENACRE AND SARAH GALE
The First Executed for Murder, the Second Transported as
being Accessory to the Fact.
CHARLES
SAMUEL BARTLETT.
Executed for Murdering his Mother-in-law, 15th
April, 1837
JOHN
SMITH, alias DAY; JOHN VARNHAM; and GEORGE TIMMS.
Executed For Murdering a Fortune-teller, 29th
April, 1837.
GEORGE
DARWELL.
Convicted of Embezzling Money to Give to the Mother of his
Child.
GEORGE
FLETCHER, WILLIAM ROACH, AND THOMAS TAYLOR.
Executed For Murder.
WILLIAM
FRANCIS ADAMS.
Acquitted of Murdering, but Convicted of Robbing, his Father,
and Transported.
CHARLES
KINNAISTER, AND OTHERS.
Executed for the Murder of Australian Aborigines.
ARCHIBALD
BOLAM.
Transported for Manslaughter.
LEWIN
CASPAR, ELLIS CASPAR, EMANUEL MOSES, AND ALICE ABRAHAMS.
Transported for Stealing Gold-dust.
JACOB
FREDERICK EHLERT,
A Norwegian Sailor, Executed For Murdering his Captain.
THE
REV. J. E. STEVENS.
Convicted of Sedition.
THE
BIRMINGHAM RIOTS
13th of July 1839
THE
CHARTIST RIOTS
1839-40.
FEARGUS
O'CONNOR, ESQ.
Convicted of the Publication of a Seditious Libel.
JAMES
OWEN, GEORGE THOMAS, alias DOBELL, AND WILLIAM ELLIS, alias LAMBERT.
Canal Bargemen who Raped and Murdered a Passenger.
WILLIAM
RACE,
Convicted of Manslaughter for a Joke that Went Wrong.
JAMES
AND WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT.
Executed for Robbery and Murder.
RICHARD
GOULD, alias ARTHUR NICHOLSON.
Tried for Murder, but Convicted of Burglary.
THOMAS
PATTESON
Convicted of Manslaughter, March 10th, 1840
JOHN
TURNER FLYNN
Convicted of Forgery and Transported for Life, 11th
April, 1840
ALEXANDER
M'LAGHLIN SMITH
Tried for Murder, but Found Insane, 21st of July 1840
HARRISON
FLATHER
Imprisoned for Larceny.
RICHARD
MOORE
Transported for Forgery.
PATRICK
MAXWELL STEWART WALLACE; and MICHAEL SHAW STEWART WALLACE
Transported for Inciting a Person to Cast Away and Destroy a
Merchant Ship.
DAVID
SAMS
Transported for Burglary.
WILLIAM
STEVENSON
Transported for Larceny.
JAMES
INGLETT
A Cow-doctor, Convicted of Manslaughter for Giving a Potion
to a sick Neighbour
Appendices
APPENDIX
I
Description of Newgate.
APPENDIX
II
The Origin of the Gibbet in England
APPENDIX
III
The Maiden, or Scottish Guillotine
APPENDIX
IV
The Newgate Bellman
APPENDIX
V.
The punishment of whipping in England, Russia, and France
APPENDIX
VI.
Fleet Marriages
APPENDIX
VII.
An account of the various modes of punishment for adultery, in
distant nations.
APPENDIX
VIII
The Jail Fever
APPENDIX
IX
Torture
APPENDIX
X
Swindling
APPENDIX
XI
An Exposè of the whole system of GAMBLING, as practised in
the most notorious LONDON HELLS
APPENDIX
XII
Coining
APPENDIX
XIII
Pretended Ghosts
APPENDIX
XIV
Witchcraft
APPENDIX
XV
Voluntary punishment of Gentoo
widows on the death of their husbands
APPENDIX
XVI
Trial by ordeal of the Hindoos
in the East
APPENDIX
XVII
Chinese punishments
APPENDIX
XVIII
Turkish Punishments inflicted on
knavish butchers and bakers.
APPENDIX
XIX
Benefit of clergy.
CONCLUDING
NOTE
by the Editors.
GERALD FITZGERALD
Executed For Murder, 24th of December, 1703
JOHN BIGG
Convicted of Altering a Bank Note
JOHN GORDON, WILLIAM KERR AND JOHN DORRELL
Jacobites Executed for High Treason
JOHN MATTHEWS
Executed for High Treason in Printing a Jacobite Pamphlet
FRANCIS BRIGHTWELL AND BENJAMIN BRIGHTWELL
Tried For a Highway Robbery
ANTHONY DRURY
Executed for Highway Robbery
JAMES CARNEGIE, ESQ.
Tried for Murder
MARTIN NOWLAND
Executed for High Treason
JAMES ANNESLEY, ESQ, AND JOSEPH REDDING
Tried for Murder
RICHARD BIGGS
Executed near Bath for the Murder of his Wife, 14th September, 1748
JOHN LANCASTER
Executed for Housebreaking, 24th September, 1748
SAMUEL HILL
Executed for Murdering his Landlady, 23d of March, 1762
JOHN ANDREWS
Executed for Forgery, 23d of March, 1752
JOHN POULTER ALIAS BAXTER
Executed For Highway Robbery
JOHN BRETT
Executed For Forgery.
JOHN SMITH AND ROBERT MAYNE
Executed for a Mutiny on Board the King George, 10th May, 1762
JOHN KELLO
Executed for Forgery, 13th October 1755
THOMAS USHER
Executed for Robbery, 4th May, 1764
WILLIAM JAQUES
Executed for the Murder of a Black Man, August, 1764
RICHARD SWIFT
Transported for Buying Stolen Goods
ELIZABETH BURROUGHS
Executed for Murder, April 4th, 1766
JOHN M'CLOUD
Executed for the Murder Of Mr. Stoddard, October 24th, 1768
MICHAEL SAMPSON
Forger, whose Death Sentence Was Commuted to Transportation because he Had Saved a Nobleman's Servants from Drowning
JAMES MURPHY AND JOHN DOGAN
Executed for Being Concerned in Wilkes's Riots, July 11th, 1768
MOSES ALEXANDER
Executed For Forgery although Innocent, 9th August, 1769
CHARLES DAVID MORGAN, DAVID MORGAN, WILLIAM SPIGGOT, WILLIAM WALTER EVAN, WILLIAM MORRIS, AND DAVID LEWELLIN
Executed for the Murder Of Mr. Powell, March 30th, 1770
JOHN STRETTON
Executed for Robbing the Mail, 1st August, 1770
RICHARD MORGAN
Executed for Privately Stealing, 27th May, 1772
EDWARD BIRCH AND MATTHEW MARTIN
Executed for Forgery, 2nd January, 1772
WILLIAM EDWARDS WHITE
Executed for Murder, 25th October, 1772
ROBERT POWEL
Executed for Forgery, 2nd January, 1772
JOSEPH GUYANT AND JOSEPH ALLPRESS
Executed for Robbing the Mail, 8th July, 1772
JOSEPH COOPER
Executed for Robbing his Master, 30th June, 1772
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WILLIAM GANSEL
Tried for Firing a Pistol at John Hyde, 8th September, 1773
ISAAC DARKING, Alias DUMAS
Executed for Highway Robbery, 16th April, 1761
SAMUEL MALE
Executed for Robbery, 25th March, 1773
JOHN CHALLENOR
Executed for Parricide 23rd August, 1773
CHARLES MILLS AND JOHN PUGH
Executed for Highway Robbery, 7th November, 1774
WILLIAM HAWKE
Executed for Highway Robbery, 1st July, 1774
WILLIAM FARMERY
Executed for the Murder of his Mother, 5th August, 1775
MESSRS. RUMBOLD AND SYKES
Members of Parliament for Hindon, in Wiltshire, Imprisoned for Bribery, in the Year 1776
JOHN MADDY, or MANNING
Another Case of Adultery
FRANCIS DAVID STIRN
Convicted of Murder, but Poisoned Himself in Newgate, 12th Sept, 1760
WILLIAM ODELL, A SOLDIER, AND JOHN DEMPSEY, A SAILOR
Executed at Tyburn, September 15, 1760, for Murder
THE MAYOR OF BODMIN, IN CORNWALL
Barbarously Executed in the Reign of Edward VI
JAMES NICKOLSON
Murderer, convicted fifteen years after the murder
COUNTRY RIOTS, OWING TO THE HIGH PRICE OF PROVISIONS IN THE YEAR 1766
With an Account of The Execution of Some of the Rioters
EDWARD AND JANE M'GINNIS
Brother and Sister Executed at Tyburn, July 18, 1766, for Burglary
ISAAC LONG
And Other Sham Doctors
JAMES FRITH
Convicted of Robbing His Master's House, in the Dead of the Night, and Transported in the Year 1772
WILLIAM KELLY
Executed near Gloucester, and His Body Hung in Chains, September the 28th, 1772, for Murder
WILLIAM WELCH AND PETER CONWAY
Two Boys, the first fourteen, and the latter nine years of Age,
Tried at the Old Bailey, for a Highway Robbery on the Person of a
Female Infant, still Younger
NICHOLAS MALLARD
Sentenced to Three Years Imprisonment, for an Assault Committed in
a Singular Attempt to Commit a Robbery on the 16th Of April 1774
WILLIAM CARR
Convicted in the Ecclesiastical Court for Slander, May 4, 1774, and Sentenced to be Imprisoned Four Years
STRICTURES ON THE OBSERVATIONS OF MR. HOWARD
Respecting Prisons, and the Treatment of Prisoners
CHARLES PIPKINS
Executed at Tyburn, October 23, 1776, for Burglary
HYMAN ISAACKS
An English Jew, Executed at Ostend, in the year 1777, for Forging on the Bank of England
JOSHUA CROMPTON
Executed at Gangly-Green, near Guildford, in Surrey, July 31, 1778, for Forging Bank of England Notes
FRANCES PEARCE
Convicted of Privately Stealing, in October Sessions, 1778, at the Old Bailey, and Sentenced to be Imprisoned for Three Years
WILLIAM FLINT
A Pick-Pocket, Twice Sentenced to Hard Labour on the River Thames, for Privately Stealing
WILLIAM MEYER, ESQ.
Executed at York, April, 6 1781, for Murder
JOHN LEE, ESQ.
Who, from the Honourable Post of Captain in the British Army,
Degenerated into the Humiliating Employ of a Strolling Player, wherein
he Committed Forgery; and for which he was Executed at Tyburn, on the
fourth of March, 1784
JOSEPH RICHARDS
A Most Ungrateful and Barbarous Villain, Executed at Kentish Town, near London, February 27, 1786, for Murder
THE MILKMEN OF LONDON
And Their Impositions upon the Public
ROBERT JAQUES
Convicted at the Old Bailey, July 11, 1790, of Being a Party in a
Conspiracy against the Warden of the Fleet Prison, and Sentenced to be
Imprisoned and Pilloried
JAMES WATTS
A Quaker, convicted of Robbing his Employer, at the Manchester Quarter Session for 1787
JOHN MEAD
The Boy Incendiary, Executed before Newgate, August 31, 1791, for Setting Fire to his Master's House
HOLDERNESS, THE WATERMAN
Convicted and punished for Ill Treatment to his Fare, 1792.
JOHN BURKITS
Sentenced to Twelve Months Imprisonment, for Dog Stealing, October 13, 1789
JOHN HORNBY MORELAND
Convicted at the Lent Assizes 1790, at Bury, in Suffolk, For Bigamy
PIERRE AUGUSTINE, ALIAS PETER AUGUSTINE, ALIAS PETER CHUMLEY, ALIAS PETER CHAPMAN, ALIAS PETER DEVAL
Executed before Newgate, August 31, 1791, For Robbing his own Countryman
THOMAS DUNN
Convicted, Pilloried, and Imprisoned, at Lancaster, September 2, 1794, for Perjury
WILLIAM TILLEY, JOHN
CROSSWELL, GEORGE HARDWICK, JAMES HAYDEN, JOHN HAWDEN, SIMON JACOBS,
JOHN SOLOMONS, JOHN PHILLIPS, AND JOHN HENLEY
Convicted at the Old Bailey, July 1, 1795, of a Conspiracy, and Sentenced to Transportation.
GEORGE COLLEY, MICHAEL BLANCHE, AND FRANCIS COLE
Murderers and Pirates, Executed at Execution Dock, January 22, 1796
MICHAEL COX, ROBERT M'LAURIN, JOHN SULLIVAN, MARTIN EALEY, AND WILLIAM MORRISON
The Mutineers of the Grand Fleet, Executed at the Yard-arm of the Defiance Man of War, March 8, 1796
VALLERIE COFFRE
A Frenchman, Executed at Winchester, July 11, 1766, for the Murder of his Fellow-Prisoner
JAMES O'COIGLEY
Executed on Penningdon Heath, June 7, 1798, for High Treason
SAMUEL BURR
Convicted of a Forgery, in the year 1787
WILLIAM GRANT (A Negro)
In whose Conviction we shall Introduce a Sketch of the Pawnbroker and the Jew
JEREMIAH READING
The Scape-goat of Swindlers, Convicted of Forgery at the Old Bailey, the Judgment Arrested, and the Condemned Pardoned
JOHN DAY
The Most Execrable Murderer of Father, Mother, and their Servant
WILLIAM WINTERBOTTOM
A Dissenting Preacher, Fined and Imprisoned for Preaching Seditious Sermons
CHARLES TALMAGE
Convicted along with Mary Mallet, of Burglary, and Hanged at Winchester, March 12, 1794
ROBERT WATT and DAVID DOWNIE
Convicted of High Treason, at Edinburgh, with Particulars of the Execution of a Traitor in Scotland
EDWARD COOKE AND HENRY PARISH
Soldiers in the Oxfordshire Militia, Condemned at a General Court
Martial, and Shot at Brightelmstone (i.e. Brighton), June 12, 1795, for
Mutiny
TIMOTHY DUNN, EDWARD JONES, MATTHEW RILEY, AND DENNIS CONROY
Soldiers, Executed March 21, 1796, for Murder
ELIZABETH HALL
Convicted, Fined, and Imprisoned, for Cruelty to her Female Apprentices
MARTIN LAAS
A Norwegian, Executed at Maidstone, for Murder
EDWARD POWELL
Master Mast-maker of his Majesty's Dock-yard, at Portsmouth, Executed near Winchester, for Murder
REBELLIONS IN IRELAND IN 1803
Their Rise and Progress -- Assassination of the Lord Chief Justice and
his Nephew. -- Particulars of the Lives and Executions of the Principal
Rebels
ROBERT EMMET, ESQ
A Counsellor at Law, and Chief of the Irish Rebels, in 1803; for which he was Executed
FRANCIS FINLAY
Convicted at the December Sessions, at the Old Bailey, in 1802, and Executed for Forgery
LAWRENCE INNIS
A British Seaman, Executed on Pennenden-Heath, January 21, 1803, for Murder
STEPHEN STILWELL
Executed on the Top of the New Gaol, Southwark, March 26, 1803, for the Murder of His Wife
JOHN THOMPSON, ALIAS KELLY
A Mean and Cowardly Robber, Executed at Newgate, October 6. 1803, for Robbing and Ill-Treating a Poor Defenceless Old Woman
MARY PARNELL
Executed at Newgate, July 12, 1804, for Forgery
ELIZABETH LARGHAN
Executed at Chelmsford, March 21, 1804, for the Murder of her Female Infant Child
GEORGE KENNEDY, MARTIN MOODY, AND RICHARD BARTON
Soldiers of the Foot Guards Convicted of a Robbery, Attended with Circumstances of Cruelty
SAMUEL WILD MITCHELL
Executed before Newgate, January 14, 1805, for the Murder of his Infant Daughter
JOHN ROGER TURNER
Executed at the Old Bailey, May 5, 1805, for Forgery
JOHN HARDING
Executed before Newgate, November 13, 1805, for Forgery
WILLIAM HONEYMAN
The Young Swindler; Convicted of Forgery at the Lent Assizes, 1806, for Kent, and Executed upon Pennenden Heath
ANDREW AKOW
A Chinese Sailor, Executed at Execution-Dock, July 18, 1806, for Murdering his Countryman
PHILIP MATSELL
Executed August 22, 1806, at Birmingham, for Firing at and Wounding T. Twyford, a Watchman of that Town
EDWARD M'ELROY
Indicted for Setting Fire to a Car-house
EDWARD WILLIAM ROBERTS, DAVID MAITLAND, AND SAMUEL COLE
Convicted at the Lent Assizes for Hertford, 1809, and Pilloried for a Conspiracy
RIOTS OF THE MANCHESTER WEAVERS
The King against Hanson, Lancaster Lent Assizes, 1809
ANNE LEAK
A Horse Thief, Eleven years old
THOMAS LUCAS and SARAH WELLS
Christians Prosecuted by Jews
JACOB LITTLEBOY, WILLIAM GLADMAN, AND WILLIAM PENN
Convicted at the April Sessions for Middlesex 1809, of Stealing a Dead Body out of the Grave
HANNAH, ALIAS DIANA CONOLLY, CATHERINE HANDLEY, AND ELIZABETH COX
Convicted (Separately) for concealing the Delivery of a Child, and Sentenced to Imprisonment
JOSEPH SMITH AND CHARLES MEYRICK
Convicted of a Burglary in Breaking into Bagnigge Wells, The Noted Tea Gardens near London
MICHAEL CONNOR, JAMES KELLY, AND JOHN CARR
The Two Former Convicted of Highway Robbery, February 1809, and Sentenced to Death
JOHN SPEED, ESQ.
A Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army, Convicted at the Lent Surrey Assizes, 1809, of Bigamy
PHILIP FACEY
A Singular Case of Bigamy, of which he was Convicted at the Summer Assizes for Surrey, 1809, Fined and Imprisoned
RICHARD COSTELLO, JOHN SAYLOR, and JAMES MACLALLEY
Soldiers in the British Army, Convicted at Chelmsford, in March Assizes, 1809, of the Murder of a Fellow Soldier
THE SCALE OF ROGUERY EXEMPLIFIED
From the Earliest Stage of Human Depravity
JOHN PALMER
Executed 23rd November 1808, for Cutting and Maiming in the Course of a Burglary
RICHARD THOMAS DUDMAN AND EDWARD WOOD
Convicted of a Conspiracy, of the Foulest Nature, at the Middlesex Sessions, and Sentenced to Imprisonment and the Pillory
THE PARSON'S HORSE AND THE WINDMILL.
A Singular Case
MUTINY AT MALTA, APRIL 1807
A Caution to Soldiers
JOHN TROY
Executed before Newgate, for Forgery, 3rd July 1805
GEORGE RICHARD WALKER AND CHRISTOPHER DODDS
Executed before Newgate, for Forgery, 11th June, 1806
RICHARD NEWELL
Whipped for Cruelty to his Apprentices
ANN THOMPSON
A Prostitute, Indicted for the Murder of her Keeper, and Found Guilty of Manslaughter
JOHN LEONARD WHITE
Executed before Newgate, for Cutting and Maiming, 15th February 1806
ANDREW SCHOSTOCK
A German Soldier Serving in the King's German Legion, Executed in
Kent, for the Horrid Murder of a Woman, in the Isle Of Thanet, 27th
March, 1807
BENJAMIN PLUMBER, JOHN SPITTLE, CHARLES SIFLEET, AND JOHN SAVAGE
Convicted of Burglary at Maidstone Assizes, 27th March 1807
PATRICK PRENDERGAST
Executed before Newgate, the 25th of March 1807, for Burglary
ALEXANDER DAVISON
Convicted of a Fraud to a Large Amount upon Government
SAMUEL DAVIS, JOHN MARRYATT, JOHN LAWRENCE BARRON, GEORGE WINDLE, AND SARAH GROVER
Pilloried and Imprisoned, for a Conspiracy
ROBERT WILSON, ALIAS JAMES WOOD
A Soldier, and a most hardened Villain, Executed in the Island of Guernsey for Murder
THOMAS JEWETT
Executed at York for a Rape on his Master's Daughter
GABRIEL KABLINSKI
Executed in France for Murder, Friday 19th April, 1811
WILLIAM BRAGGE
Convicted at the Lent Assizes, for the County of Durham, 1809, and Fined and Imprisoned, for Perjury.
JOHN ANNIS
A ship broker, convicted of Fraud, 14th of January, 1809
HENRY GAWLER
A Clerk in the Navy Office, Convicted the 11th of April, 1808, of a Fraud
CHARLES LLOYD
Convicted of Stealing in a Dwelling House, and Sentenced to Imprisonment
SINGULAR ROBBERY AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
By a Villain who Escaped Justice
JOHN GONDREU
Convicted at the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction, held at the
Criminal Court, of the Town Sydney, in New South Wales, (commonly
called Botany Bay,) on the 12th of September 1809, and Sentenced to
Death for Burglary
ISAAC WEST and JOHN DUNCAN
Convicted of Burglary in Botany Bay, 12th of September 1809
JOHN BOULTON
Punished by the Stocks in Botany Bay
HENRY KELLY
Punishment of a Prevaricating Witness in Botany Bay
JAMES HEATH and HENRY WILLIAMS
Sentenced to Death, having Pleaded Guilty to an Indictment before
the Court Of Criminal Jurisdiction at Sidney, (Botany Bay,) Charged
with a Burglary
THOMAS HERBERT
Indicted for Assault, 8th December 1809
REBECCA LEE
A Cruel Mistress to her Servant Maid
THE GEMMEN OF THE WHIP
And their Misdemeanours
JOHN KING
Convicted the sittings after Michaelmas Term 1810, in the Court at Westminster, of Perjury
HANNAH WHITELOCK ALIAS TAYLOR
Transported for Seven Years, for Stealing Articles from Ready-furnished Lodgings
CHARLES DON
Convicted at the Summer Assizes 1810, at Chelmsford, and Sentenced to Death, for Horse Stealing.
FOUR NATIVE INDIANS OF BOMBAY
Tried and Punished, 1810, for a Conspiracy, to Murder George Cumming Osborne, Esquire.
THOMAS WREN
Convicted of Assault at the Middlesex Sessions, December, 1810
MARY FORDHAM
Tried at Hertford, the 18th March 1811, for the Wilful Murder of
her Bastard Child, Found Guilty of Concealing its Birth, and Sentenced
to Two Years' Imprisonment
JOHN HUGHES
Convicted at the Summer Assizes Held at Dolgelly, in North Wales, 1811, and Sentenced to Death for Sheep Stealing.
JOHN PURCEL, ESQ. OF HIGHFORT, NEAR CHARLEVILLE
Extraordinary Defeat of a Desperate Gang of House-breakers
GEORGE KENDRICK
Imprisoned Twelve Months in the Middlesex House of Correction, for Pheasant Stealing
GEORGE RATCLIFFE
Executed for Rape, 4th April 1811
COMBINATION OF JOURNEYMEN BOOT-MAKERS.
A Lesson to Journeymen of every trade
CHARLES BENNETT
Sentenced to Three Months Imprisonment in the House of Correction, for Defrauding his Employers of Sixpence
WILLIAM M'CORMICK
One of those Daring Thieves Called Hustlers, Transported for Hustling and Robbing a Passenger in the Borough of Southwark
JAMES FORD
Fined for a Brutal Attack upon a Woman
JOSEPH BROWN
Executed at York, for the Murder of his Landlady several Years before, in order to Possess himself of her Property
ANN ILLIARD AND HER DAUGHTER
Fined and Imprisoned for Keeping a Brothel
RICHARD RIPPON and JOHN POLLARD
Sentenced to Transportation, November 18l1, for Stealing Jewels
RICHARD LOWE, ALIAS LONG NED
A most Infamous Villain, Sentenced to Hard Labour in the House of
Correction in Coldbath Fields, for an Aggravated Assault upon a Surgeon
at Chelsea
ABRAHAM WATSON
Convicted of a most Daring Assault, and Sentenced to Six Months Imprisonment
DAVID MOORE, AND JOHN WILD
Midnight Guardians of the Peace Of London, Imprisoned for Abuse of Office.
MONTGOMERY BROWN
Captain of a Merchant ship, Executed at Antrim in Ireland, 27th July 1812, for Murder
JOHN HUGHES AND JAMES ROBINSON
Imprisoned and Pilloried, for a Conspiracy in Aiding the Escape of French Prisoners of War
JAMES WESTBROOK AND ELIZABETH PHIPPS
Convicted at the September Sessions 1812, and Sentenced to Death, for Burglary
THOMAS FARNSWORTH THE YOUNGER
Convicted at the Middlesex sessions, of an Assault and Libel upon his Father
Supplement 3
SIR HENRY MORGAN.
Pirate who became Governor of Jamaica (1688)
MAJOR STEDE BONNET.
Wealthy Landowner turned Pirate, Hanged 10th December 1718
ANN HOLLAND
Wife of a highwayman with whom she robbed many people. Executed 1705
DICK MORRIS.
Cunning and audacious swindler, executed 1706
WILLIAM NEVISON
Highwayman who robbed his fellows. Executed at York, 4th May 1684
CAPTAIN AVERY
Pirate who died penniless, having been robbed of his booty by merchants
CAPTAIN MARTEL
Pirate
CAPTAIN TEACH
alias BLACK BEARD, the Most Famous Pirate of all.
CAPTAIN EDWARD ENGLAND
Pirate
CAPTAIN CHARLES VANE.
Pirate
CAPTAIN JOHN RACKAM.
Pirate
MARY READ.
Who Passed as a Man, and became a Soldier, Sailor, and Pirate.
ANNE BONNEY
The Famous Woman Pirate
CAPTAIN DAVIS
Pirate
CAPTAIN ROBERTS
Pirate
CAPTAIN KENNEDY.
Pirate
STEPHEN BUNCE
A Most Brazen and Ingenious Thief
NICHOLAS WELLS
Burglar, Highwayman and Hired Assassin
WILLIAM HALLOWAY
Highwayman
?? AVERY.
Bricklayer and Highwayman
WILLIAM GETTINGS
Highwayman, executed 25th September 1713.
CAPTAIN URATZ
Highwayman and murderer, who argued with the divine under the gallows
CHRISTOPHER DICKSON, JOHN GIBSON, AND CHARLES WEYMOUTH
Highwaymen, executed 10th March, 1714
RICHARD KEELE
Highwayman, executed 23rd December, 1713
CAPTAIN WORLEY
Pirate, whose beginning was bold and desperate, his course short and prosperous, and his end bloody and disgraceful
CAPTAIN SPRIGGS.
Pirate.
CAPTAIN UPTON
Pirate
CAPTAIN EDWARD LOW
Pirate
NAN HERFORD
Swindler and Shoplifter, Executed 22 December 1690
TOM MARSH
Thief, Executed 4 May 1696
ANDREW BAYNES.
A Hardened Malefactor, who Tried Many Dodges, and was Hanged on 8 August 1711
WILLIAM WARD, SAMUEL LYNN, RALPH EMMERY, JOHN PRIOR, ROBERT VICKERS, AND FRANCIS PARQUET
Malefactors who Were all Hanged on 19 February 1719
JOHN TRIPPUCK, ROBERT CANE, THOMAS CHARNOCK, AND RICHARD SHEPHERD.
Malefactors who were all Hanged on 29 January 1720
TOM DORBEL
Highwayman Turned Servant who Robbed and Murdered his Mistress' Niece
TOM GARRET
Highwayman, who Proved less Clever than his Victim
COLONEL TURNER
Officer and Gentleman who Maintained his Position by Robbery
CONCLUDING NOTE
To the Jackson 1795 edition.
