INDEX

Abbey lands, [157]
ab Ulmis, John, an imported preacher, [142]
a Lasco, John, an imported preacher, [142]
Æthelstan, laws of, [19], [56]
Alfred, laws of, [55]
Aliens Act of 1905 anticipated, [147]
Amos, Andrew, his “Great Oyer of Poisoning,” [178], [181]
Anabaptists—
Commission to try, [158]
Latimer jeers at their constancy, [158]
burnt, [177]
Anglo-Saxon penal legislation, [55]
Arians burnt, [177]
Ascham, Roger, on destruction of Yeomanry, [140]
Assassination Plot, [215-16]
strange sequel to, [216-19]
Athol, Earl of, hanged on a high gallows, [101]
Bacon, Francis, in trial of Robert Carr, [181], [22 note]
Bagshot Heath, gibbet on, [211]
Ball, John, and revolt of the peasants, [106]
Barclay, Alexander, “Ship of Fools,” [iv], [140 note]
Barkworth, Mark, manner of his death, [173]
Barton, Elizabeth, “The Holy Maid of Kent,” [133]
Bassompierre, Maréchal de, [66]
Bedloe, William, perjurer, dies, [202]
Beheading, [31-4]
Bentham, Jeremy, [78]
his father robbed, [266]
Bernardi, Major John—
imprisoned without trial for forty years, [216]
Dr. Johnson on, [217]
dies in prison, [218]
Bethnal Green—
weavers of, riotous, [254-55]
two weavers hanged near church, [255]
constitutional question arises, [255]
Bigamy—
a bar to benefit of clergy, [127-29]
old meaning of word, [129]
provisions as to, [131-32]
bigamist put on footing of others, [132]
Black Death, [49]
Blake, Admiral, his body removed, [192]
Bleackley, Horace—
tells story of the Perreaus, [261]
of W. W. Ryland, [266]
“Blood-Bowl House”—
in Hanging-Sword Alley, [241]
figures in print by Hogarth, [241]
Boiling to death, see [Executions]
Boleyn, Anne, [132-33]
Bones discovered at corner of Edgware Road, [53]
Borough Customs, [19-20]
Bosgrave, James, condemned to death, [160-61]
Bow Church, [80-1], [97-8]
Bowel-burning—
remarkable case, [109]
at Charing Cross, [190]
And see [Treason]
Boy martyr—
of Lincoln, [91-4]
of Norwich, [91]
Brabant, merchants of, robbed, [9-10]
Bradshaw, John, his dead body hanged on Tyburn gallows, [190]
Breaking on the wheel—
not in use in England, [23-4]
adoption recommended, [246]
Bréauté, Fawkes de, hangs Constantine Fitz-Athulf [85-6]
Brembre, Nicholas, his misdeeds and fate, [107]
Brentford, gallows at, [15]
Brinklow Henry, on rapacity of landlords, [139]
Briton, Ralph—
a priest, imprisoned on false accusation, [87]
released, [87-8]
Bronchotomy, [225], [252]
Brownrigg, Mrs., her cruelty to apprentices, [253-54]
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, [181 note]
assassinated by Felton, [182]
Bucquinte, Andrew, a burglar, [82-3]
Buffer, Peter de, a robber, [86]
Bunyan “Pilgrim’s Progress,” [156]
Burgh, Hubert de, justiciar, [85-6]
Burghley, Lord—
defends use of torture, [35-6], [161-62], [162-63 and note]
pamphlets ascribed to, [35], [161], [163], [164 note]
Burial of persons executed—
in Pardon churchyard, [49-50]
refused in St. Sepulchre’s, [50]
corpses thrown into pits, [51], [177]
Burnet, Dr. Gilbert, [204], [207]
Burning—
in hand [130-31]
in cheek enacted in 1699, repealed in 1706, [221]
of women, [4], [105], [207], [230], [235-36], [257]
Bury St. Edmund’s—
boy-martyr of, [91]
monastery of, [137]
Butler, Samuel—
mentions Dun, the hangman, [46]
Ode on Duval, [197-98]
Camden, William, historian—
“Britannia,” [23 note], [65]
“History of Elizabeth” quoted, [161], [164 note], [168], [170-71]
Cameron, Dr. Archibald—
executed long after rebellion, [249]
behaviour, and manner of death, [249]
“Can I not do as I like with my own?” [139 and note]
Canterbury, Archbishop of, votes against repeal of Shoplifting Act, [257 note]
Capital offences, number of, [6], [257]
Capital punishment—
abolished by William the Conqueror, [56]
re-instituted by Henry I., [56]
Cardan, Jerome, misquoted by Harrison, [142-43]
Carlyle, Thomas, on Basil Montague, [265]
Carr, Robert, Viscount Rochester and Earl of Somerset—
friendship with Overbury, [178]
makes conquest of Countess of Essex, [179]
marries her after her divorce, [180]
refuses to plead guilty to charge of murdering Overbury, [180-81]
condemned and pardoned, [180]
in possession of some secret, [180-81]
Was he guilty? [180]
means devised to silence him, [181]
Carter, William, drawn and hanged for printing a book, [162-63]
Catur, William, slain in single combat, [115]
Caursins, rivals of the Jews as money-lenders, [94]
“Celtic fringe,” [100 note]
Chains and manacles, ordered to be brought to Tower, [99]
Challoner, Dr. Richard, historian, quoted, [52], [167], [176], [177], [182], [185]
Charing Cross—
Station on site of Hungerford House, [125]
gallows set up at, [152 and note]
Pillory at, [202]
Charles I.—
and Henrietta Maria, [65-6]
executions under, [76-7]
conflict with Parliament as to execution of priests, [184], [204]
Charles II.—
his court almost pure compared with that of James I., [178]
proclamations, [194-5]
supposed design to assassinate, [200]
unjustly blamed for Popish Plot executions, [204-5]
and Rye House Plot, [205]
Charterhouse—
of London, [49], [133]
Prior of, [134]
of Beauvale, [134]
of Axholmes, [134]
Priors of Beauvale and Axholme, [134]
execution of the three Priors, [134-36]
three Monks of London House executed, [136]
Horne, William, a lay brother of, executed, [147]
Chaucer—
his Prioress, [7]
her story, [91]
Chauncy, Maurice, his account of the martyrdom of the Carthusians, [133-36]
Chelsea, gallows at, [15]
Chidley, Samuel, [79]
writes against “over-much justice,” [186-87]
Children burnt or hanged, [78], [246], [257-58]
Chiltern Hundreds—
origin of stewardship of, [8-9]
forests, [11]
“Christ’s poor,” [141]
become “paupers,” [142]
Church, no church that erreth not, [158 note]
Churches robbed, [118]
Ciltria, see [Chiltern]
Clergy, benefit of—
right to claim barred by bigamy, [127]
could be claimed by murderer till 1531, [129]
what it was, [129], [130-31]
extended in 1351-52 to all clerks, [129], [130]
constantly narrowed, [131]
in 1726, [131]
abolished in 1827, [131]
Clitherow, Margaret, manner of her death, [39]
Cobbett, William—
on “Histories of England,” [4]
on “rooks and daws,” [5]
on Waverley Abbey, [15 note]
Cobham, Dame Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, [113-15]
her penance, [114-15]
Cock tavern in Cheapside, murder of landlord, [105], [111]
Coin—
debased state of, [214]
men in royal dockyards paid in clipped money, [215]
Coining—
became a common offence, [214], [219], [220]
legislation as to coin, [214-15]
in Newgate prison, [221]
Coke, Lord Chief Justice—
on punishment for high treason, [32], [33 note]
on torture, [36]
busy in discovery of murder of Overbury, [181 note]
Collier, Jeremy—
outlawed for absolving Friend and Perkins, [216]
Common Prayer, Book of—
Commission to try those who reject, [158]
death to write against, [177]
Commonwealth, executions under, [77], [187-88]
Cony—
refuses to pay illegal tax, [186]
Cromwell imprisons him, [186]
Cornelius, John, story of his head, [51-2]
Cornishmen, revolt of, [121-22]
Cotell, John, murdered by his wife, afterwards Lady Hungerford, [126-27]
Courts—
multiplicity of, [16-19]
conflicts between, [16-19]
petty, in France, [57 note]
Cranmer, Thomas—
pronounces divorce of Catherine, [132]
of Anne Boleyn, [136-37]
Crimes—
extraordinary accumulation of, [213]
Criminal begged of the King by 18 maids, [208]
Cromwell, Oliver—
bones found (?), [53]
guilty of the blood of Southworth, [185]
Why has he a statue? [185-86]
his military despotism, [186], [187 and note]
throws into prison Cony, and his counsel, [186]
removes judge from bench, [186]
greatest recorded number of executions at one time during Commonwealth, [187-88]
arrests 500 persons, [187 note]
and Don Pantaleon Sa, [189]
his last executions, [190]
his body hanged on Tyburn gallows, [190-92]
legends on this subject, [192]
body of his mother and of others removed from Westminster Abbey, [192]
his mother’s body removed, [192]
Cromwell, Thomas, calls Tyburn “Thyfbourne,” [137]
Cunningham, Peter, “Handbook of London,” [45], [46], [47], [64 note]
Dangerfield, Thomas, perjurer—
pilloried and whipped, [202]
killed by Francis, [202]
Daniel, P. A., on references to Triple Tree, [64]
David, Prince of Wales, execution of, [31]
David II., of Scotland, [104]
David III., of Wales, head exposed on Tower of London, [100]
Death—
Penalty of, for relieving a priest, [166]
for being reconciled to Roman Church, [165-66]
“Decay of England,” [141 and note]
Defoe, Daniel, [67]
biographer of Jack Sheppard, [233]
his grandson, [258]
Derrick, a kind of crane, said to be named after a hangman, [45]
Dickens, Charles—
against public executions, [4]
Dennis, the hangman in Barnaby Rudge, [48]
in Hungerford Street, [126]
Hanging-Sword Alley, [242]
Dictionary of National Biography, [44]
Disembowelling, see [High Treason]
Dissection—
enacted, to add terror to death-sentence, [247]
of Earl Ferrers, [251]
of Mrs. Brownrigg, [253-54]
Dodd, Dr., [261-63]
intercession of Dr. Johnson, [262]
Dow, Master Robert, makes provision for tolling bell of St. Sepulchre’s, [175-76]
“Drawing”—
what it was, [27]
several kinds of, [27-30]
simple dragging to gallows, [27]
on an ox-hide, [28], [29]
on a hurdle, [29]
on a sledge, [29 note]
dragging to death, [29-30]
dragging to pieces, [30]
“Drop”—
introduced at execution of Earl Ferrers, [251]
a feature of the gallows at Newgate, [251]
its object, [252-53]
Dryden—
“On Tyburn,” [74]
on Jack Ketch, [46]
Ducket, Laurence, story of, [97-8]
Dunning, a noted robber, [11], [17]
Dunstable—
district around, infested by robbers, [17]
Priory, [17-18]
Duval, Claude—
a famous highwayman, [194], [195-98]
William Pope’s “Memoirs,” not to be taken too seriously, [197]
Ecclesford, gallows at, [16]
Ecclesiastics—
ought not to shed blood, [13]
but have gallows, [13]
power to stay execution, [13]
Edgar, King, [13]
Edward I., [11], [14], [16], [18], [24]
Year Book of, [38]
Edward II., [101]
Edward III., [101], [104]
Edward IV., [119]
Edward VI., [77], [137], [139], [142], [150], [153]
Slave Act of, [140]
revolt of peasants, [150-51]
death of, [151]
Effigy to be hanged, [18]
Elizabeth, Queen, [140], [155]
executions under, [76-7]
penal laws of, [164 and note]
last of her victims, [175]
and the Pope, [156]
torture in constant use under, [35-6], [161-62]
does not believe in charges on which priests were executed, [161]
Elm—
symbol of justice among Normans, [57]
famous elm cut down, [57]
“Judges under the elm-tree,” [57]
“Elms, The,” [81], [85], [86 note]
of Tyburn, [57], [60 and note]
of Smithfield, [57], [60 and note]
of Westminster Abbey, [57-8]
of Covent Garden, [58]
of Canterbury, [58]
of Westbourne, [58]
confusion between Tyburn and Smithfield, [58-9]
new gallows ordered for, [60]
first indication of site of, [61]
Longbeard executed here, [81]
Mortimer erroneously said to have been the first, [103 and note]
Constantine, Fitz-Athulf, [85], [86 and note]
and execution of Turberville, [99]
of Wallace, [100]
Elms Lane (now Mews), Bayswater, [58]
Ementulation—
part of the punishment for high treason, [32]
but not always forming part of sentence, [32], [33]
Essex (Robert Devereux) Earl of, [168], [170-71], [174]
Essex (Robert Devereux), Earl of Essex (son of the foregoing), marries Frances Howard, and is divorced, [179-80]
Execution—
various ways of, [19-26]
by breaking neck, [19]
by throwing into sea, [19]
by burial alive, [19-20]
must be carried out by prosecutor, [20]
by tying to a stake at low water, [20]
by throwing into a well, [20]
by “infalistation,” [20]
by throwing into harbour, [20]
by burning, [20]
by boiling, [21], [22]
by hanging alive in chains, [22], [31 note]
by being built into a sea-wall, [22]
by beheading, [23]
by flaying alive, [24-5]
by enclosing within walls, [25]
by crucifixion, [26]
by drawing, i.e., dragging to death, [30]
by dragging to pieces, [30]
place of, question arises as to, [255]
Execution Dock, [63]
Executions—
Adams, John, [165]
Ainger, Richard, [169-70]
Alfield, Thomas, [164 and note]
Alice atte Bowe, [97-8]
Allen, Sir John, [144]
Almond, John, [177]
Anderson (or Richardson), William, [175]
ap Gryffydd, Sir Rhys, [132 and note]
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, [206]
Arundell, Humfrey, [151]
Ashbey, ⸺, [150]
Ashton, Col., [190]
⸺, Roger, [167]
Athol, Earl of, [101]
Austin, John, [266-67]
Awater, John, [121]
Axtell, Daniel, [190]
Babington, Arthur, [58 note]
Barkstead, Col., [190]
Barkworth, Mark, [171-74]
Barney, Kenelme, [159]
Barrow, Henry, [167]
Barton, Elizabeth, [133]
Beasley, Richard, [193-94]
Bedell, John, [154]
Bel, ⸺, a Suffolk man, [151]
Bell, Arthur, [184]
Benson, ⸺, [188]
Bernes, Sir John, [107]
Berry, Henry, [201]
Bery, ⸺, [151]
Bestely, ⸺, [190]
Bigott, Sir Francis, [144]
Billings, Thomas, [235-36]
Bird, Robert, [147]
Blake, John, [107]
Blount, Sir Thomas, [108], mythical details, [109]
“Blueskin” (Joseph Black), [234]
Booking, Edward, [133]
Bolinbrooke, Roger, [115]
Bolner (or Bulmer), Sir John, [144]
Bosgrave, Thomas, [52]
Bradford, ⸺, [154]
Brembre, Nicholas, [107]
Brian, Alexander, [161-62]
Bridlington, Prior of, [144]
Brocas, Sir Bernard, [108]
Bromholme, Edmund, [147]
Brownrigg, Elizabeth, [253]
Bullaker, Thomas, [184]
Bullocke, Peter, [174]
Campion, Edmund, [160-61]
Carey, Terence, [52]
Carter, William, [162-63]
Charnock, Robert, [215]
Cheyney, Margaret, [144]
Clarendon, Sir Roger, [109]
Clark, John, [258]
Claxton (or Clarkson), James, [165-66]
Clifford, Edward, [145]
Clinch, Tom, [240]
Clitherow, Margaret, [39]
Cokerell, Dr., [143], [144]
Coleby, John, [260]
Coleman, Edward, [33], [201]
Collins, ⸺, a priest, [145]
Condom, John, [208]
Condon, Isabella, [266]
Coningsbey, Edmond, [145]
Conspirators of 1236, [86-7]
Constable, William, alias Fetherstone, [153]
Constantine, nephew of Constantine Fitz-Athulf, [86]
Cooke, Laurence, Prior of Doncaster, [147]
Copin, a Jew of Lincoln, [94]
Corbet, Miles, [190]
Corby, Ralph, [184]
Cornelius, John, [52]
Cottam, Thomas, [160-61]
Cotton, Edward, [193-94]
Cranburne, Charles, [216]
Cratwell, the hangman, [145]
Croftes, ⸺, a priest, [145]
Cuffe, Henry, [174]
Culpeper, Thomas, [150]
Dacres, Lord (of the South), [148]
Daniel, John, [154]
David III., [100]
David, Prince of Wales, [32]
David, John, [115]
Davy, Margaret, [22]
Deane, W., [165-66]
de Bereford, Sir Symon, [103]
Dedike (or Dethyke), John, [154]
Defoe, John Joseph, [258]
de la Motte, F. H., [266]
de Marisco, William, see [Marsh]
Derham, Francis, [150]
Dering, John, [133]
Dibdale, Richard, [165]
Dickenson, Margaret (who revives), [226]
Dingley, Thomas, and others, [146]
Dodd, Dr., [263]
Drury, Robert, [176]
Duckett, John, [184]
Duel (who revives), [223-24]
Duval, Claude, [196]
Dyer, Clement, [149]
Egerton, Ralph, [147]
Elks, Henry, [165]
Ellys, James, a great pickpurse, and seven others, [151]
Elwes, Sir Gervase, [180]
Empson, Thomas, [146-47]
Exeter, Marquis of, [145]
Exmew, Thomas, [136]
Felton, John, [156]
⸺, John, [182-83]
⸺, Thomas, [165-66]
Fenn, James, [163]
Fenwick, John, [201]
Fereby, Sir William, [108]
Fernley, ⸺, [207]
Filby, William, [162]
Filcock, Roger, [171-74]
Fitz-Athulf, Constantine, [83], [85-6]
Fitz-Harris, Edward, [33], [201]
Fitz Osbert (or Osborn), William, [79-81]
Flamock, Thomas, [123]
Flower, Richard, [166]
Ford, Thomas, [162]
Fortescue, Sir Adrian, [145]
Fountains, former Abbat of, [143-44]
Francis, ⸺, [202]
Franklin, James, [180]
Fraser, Simon, [63], [100]
Friend, Sir John, [215]
Frowds, John, [148]
Gahagan, Usher, [242]
Gardner, Garmaine, [150]
Garet, ⸺, [144]
Garnet, Henry, [176]
⸺, Thomas, [176-77]
Gascoign, Richard, [227]
Gaunt, Elizabeth, [206]
Gavan, John, [201]
Gening, Darby, [147]
Genings, Edmund, [166]
Geoffrey, one so called, [86]
Geoffrey “de Beverley,” and twelve others, [96]
Gerard, ⸺, [188-90]
Gervase (or Jarvis), George, [176]
Greenwood, John, [167]
Gibbs, Nathaniel, [193]
Gibson, James, [254]
Gold, Henry, [133]
Golden Farmer, the (William Davis), [211]
Goodgrom, William, [112]
Gordon (who revives), [224]
Green, Robert, [201]
Greene, Anne (who revives), [225-26]
⸺, Thomas, [160]
Grey Friars, eight, [109]
Grove, John, [32], [201]
Guest, William, [254]
Gunter, William, [165-66]
Gurdemaine, Margery, a witch, [114]
Hacker, Francis, [190]
Hackman, Revd. James, [264]
Hackshot, Thomas, [174], [175]
Hall, John, [108]
⸺, John, [159-60]
⸺, John, [227]
Hamerton, Sir Stephen, [144]
Hanse, Everard, [160]
Harcourt, William, [201]
Harford, Henry, [144]
Harington, William, [167]
Harman, Thomas, [147]
Hawes, Nathaniel, [230]
Hawley, Oliver, [208]
Haydock, George, [163]
Hays, Catherine, [235-36]
Heath, Henry, [184]
Hemerford, Thomas, [163]
Herring, Mrs., [258]
Hever, Thomas, [145]
Hewet, Dr., [190]
Hill, Lawrence, [201]
Hinde, James, [194]
Hodson, Sydney, [166]
Holande, ⸺, a mariner, [145]
Holford (or Acton), Thomas, [165-66]
Holland, Thomas, [184]
Holmes, Thomas, [151]
Hone, William, [205]
Home, Giles, [147]
⸺, William, [147]
Houghton, Father, Prior of the Charterhouse, [134-36]
Hughes, John, [132 and note]
Hungerford, Lady Alice (Agnes), [124], [127]
Hungerford, Lord, [128]
Inges, William, [127], [128]
Ireland, William, [32], [201]
Ivetta de Balsham (who revives), [226], [227 and note]
James, John, [193]
Jervaulx, Abbat of, [143], [144]
Johnson, Robert, [160-61]
Johnson, a confederate of Sadler, [199]
Jones, Charles, [260]
⸺, Mary, [256]
Jonston, Sir John, [210-11]
Joseph, Michael, [123]
Kelly, John, [title page (back)], [268]
Kerbie, Lucas, [160-61]
Keys, Thomas, [215]
King, Edward, [215]
Lacy, Bryan, [166]
Lane, William, [260]
Langhorn, Richard, [32], [201]
Larke, ⸺, Parson of Chelsea, [150]
Larkin, for coining in Newgate prison, [221]
Laund, Prior of, [110]
Lawrence, Father, Prior of Beauvale Charterhouse, [134-36]
Lea, Thomas, [171 and note]
Lech, bailiff of Louth, his brother Edward, and a priest, [150]
Leigh, ⸺, [149]
Leigh, Richard, [166]
Lewis, William, [260]
Limerick, Thomas, [193-94]
Line, Anne, [171-74]
Llewellyn, brother of David III., [100]
Loisie (Louis), Emanuel, [168]
Lomeley, George, [144]
“Longbeard,” see [Fitz Osbert]
Lopez, Roderigo, [168]
Lowe, John, [165]
Lowick, Major, [216]
Maclean, James, [244-45]
Mantell, John, [148]
Marsh, William, [62-3], and 16 of his band, [90-1]
Martin, Richard, [166]
Mason, John, [166]
Master, Richard, [133]
Mather, Edmund, [159]
Mathewe, William, [127], [128]
Maudelyn, parson, [108]
Maxfield, Thomas, and thirteen criminals, [182]
Maynvile, Anthony, [132]
Menstreworth, Sir John, [105]
Menteith, Earl of, [104-5]
Mercer, John, and 23 others, [187-88]
Merrick, Sir Gilly, [174]
Messenger, Peter, [193-94]
Middlemore, Humfrey, [136]
Milksop, John, [17]
Mitchell, Anthony, [23 note]
Monmouth, Duke of, [47]
Moore, Hugh, [165-66]
Morgan, Edward, [184]
Morse, Henry, [184]
Mortimer, John, [111]
⸺, Roger, [61], [101-3]
Morton, Robert, [165-66]
Moudrey, David Samuel, [42]
Mountagew, Lord, [145]
Munden, John, [163]
Nelson, John, [160]
Nevell, Sir Edward, [145]
Newdigate, Sebastian, [136]
Newport (or Smith), Richard, [177]
Norton, Christopher, [155]
⸺, Thomas, [155]
Nutter, John, [163]
Okey, Col., [190]
Oldcastle, Sir John, [58 note]
Oxburgh, Col., [227]
Page, Francis, [174-75]
Palleotti, Marquis de, [228]
Patenson, William, [167]
Paul, Rev. William, [227]
Payne, Benjamin, [254]
Paynes, a desperate character, [213]
Peckham, Henry, [154]
Percy, Sir Thomas, [144]
Perkins, Sir William, [215]
Perreau, Robert and Daniel, [260-61], [262]
Perrott, John, [227]
Philip, Clement, [147]
Philippe, Francis, [132]
Phillips, George, [193]
Pickering, Thomas, [32], [201], [204-5]
Plasden, Polydore, [166]
Plunket, Dr. Oliver, [32], [201]
Powel, Philip, [184]
Price, John, hangman, [228]
Proctor, ⸺, [155]
Pykeryng, Christopher, [132]
⸺, John, [143], [144]
Redmond, Patrick (who revives), [225]
Reynolds, a Brigittine monk, [136]
⸺, Thomas, [183]
⸺ (who revives), [224]
Richardson, Lawrence, [162]
Risby, Richard, and another, [133]
Roberts, John, and sixteen felons, [177]
Roch, John, [166]
Roe, Bartholomew, [183]
Roidon, George, [148]
Rolfe, Henry, [159]
Rookwood, Brigadier, [216]
Rose, Richard, [21], [22]
Rossey, William, [154]
Rouse, John, [205]
Russell, Lord William, [47], [206]
Ryland, Wm. Wynne, [266]
Sa, Don Pantaleon, [188-90]
Sadler, Thomas, [198-99]
Salisbury, Sir John, [107]
Salmon, Patrick, [52]
Sawtre, William, [59]
Scot, John, and four others, [119-20]
⸺, William, [177]
Senex, John, [83]
Sergeant (or Lea), Richard, [165]
Serle, William, [110]
Shelley, Sir Bennet, [108]
⸺, Edward, [166]
Sheppard, Jack, [233]
Shert, John, [162]
Sherwine, Ralfe, [160-61]
Sherwood, Thomas, [160]
Singleton, ⸺, [150]
“Sixteen-string Jack,” [260]
Slingsby, ⸺, [190]
Smith, Captain John, [63]
Smith, John, known as “half-hanged,” [221]
⸺, William, [244]
Somer, ⸺, and three vagabonds, [146]
Somers (or Wilson), Thomas, and sixteen felons, [177]
Southwell, Robert, [169]
Southworth, John, [185]
Spiggott, [229]
Squire, Edward, [170]
Stacy, ⸺, [190]
Stafford, Thomas, [154]
⸺, Viscount, [33], [201]
Strancham, Edward, [165]
Stansbury, James, [241-42]
Stanton, William, [154]
Stayley, William, [32], [200]
Story, Dr. John, [64], [157], [159]
Strangewayes, Major, [39-40]
Stretchley, ⸺, [154]
Stubbs, Francis, [193]
Tatersall, ⸺, [149]
Tempeste, Nicholas, [144]
Thistlewood, Arthur, [33], [34]
Thomas, William, [152]
Thompson (or Blackborne), William, [165]
Thornton, ⸺, [149]
Throckmorton, Francis, [163]
⸺, John, [154]
Thwing, Thomas, [201]
Tichburn, Nicholas, [174], [175]
⸺, Thomas, [174-75]
Tonge, Thomas, [193]
Town, Richard, [227]
Townley, Francis, [33]
Tresilian, Chief Justice, [106-7]
Trotman, Samuel, [260]
Turberville, Sir Thomas, [98-9]
Turner, Anthony, [201]
⸺, Mrs. [180]
Tyrell, Sir James, [123]
Uske, Thomas, [107]
Walcott, Thomas, [205]
Wallace, John, [101]
⸺, Sir William, [31], [32 and note], [99-100], [101]
Warbeck, Perkin, [121]
Ward, Margaret, [166]
Ward, William, [183]
Watkinson, Robert, [174-75]
Wawe, Wille, [111-12]
Webley, Henry, [165-66]
⸺, Thomas, [164 and note]
Webster, Father, [134-36]
Wells, Swithin, [166]
Weston, Richard, [180]
White, Eustachius, [166]
Whitebread, Thomas, [201]
Whitney, James, [213]
Wild, Jonathan, [235]
Wilford, Thomas, [248]
Wilkinson, Abraham, [23 note]
⸺, Oswald, [159-60]
⸺, ⸺, [213]
William, a messenger of the King, [88]
William “Longbeard,” see [Fitz Osbert]
Wilson, Penlez, and 13 others, [243]
Winslowe, ⸺, [151]
Woodall, Richard, [154]
Woodfen (Wheeler, or Devereux), Nicholas, [164-65]
Woodhouse, Thomas, [160]
Wright, Peter, and 13 malefactors, [184]
Wyndham, Sir John, [123]
Wyntreshull, Thomas, [108]
Yorke, Edmund, Williams, Richard, and an Irish fencing-master, [168]
Various, of unnamed persons⸺
1238, “a learned squire,” [30]
1255, 18 Jews of Lincoln, [94]
1267, 13 rioters, [96]
1271, 33 rioters, [30]
1278, 280 Jews in London, and a very great multitude elsewhere, [97]
1284, 7 (or 16?) for murder of Duket, [97-8]
1293, 13 persons, [37]
1345, 4 servants of Sir John, [104]
1386, wife and 3 (4?) servants, of landlord of the “Cock,” [105-6]
1455, 2 or 3 for riot in London, [117]
1467, 4 men, a fellowship of church robbers, [119]
1483, 4 yeomen of the Crown, [120]
1495, 150 adherents of Perkin Warbeck, [120]
1502, a shipman, [123]
1532, certain traitors, [132]
1537, 7 men of Lincolnshire, [143]
1540, several, in London, [146]
1549, 3 out of the West, [150-51]
1550, 9 felons, [151]
1552, 3 tall men and a lacquey, [151]
1553, 2 felons, [151]
1554, 58 after Wyatt’s rebellion, [152]
1556, “hangman with the stump-leg,” [155]
” 10 thieves, [153]
1557, a woman of 60 and a lad, [155]
1570, 2 coiners, [156]
1590, 16 felons, [166]
1598, 19 felons, [170]
1640, 24 felons, [187-88]
1679, 8 priests, [201]
1680, 12 men and 3 women, [205]
1690, 6 persons, [209]
” 13 ” [211]
1693, 14 ” [213]
1694, 18 ” [213]
” 14 ” [213]
1696, 14 ” [219]
1697, 14 ” [219]
1732, 13 ” [236]
1733, 12 ” [236]
” 13 ” [236]
1736, 2 men at Bristol (who revive), [224]
1737, 12 persons, [236]
1738, 13 ” [236]
” 11 ” [236]
1739, 11 ” [236]
” 11 ” [236]
1750, 13 ” [243]
1750, 13 persons, [243]
1750, 3 women drunk, [244]
1750, 6 for robbing of 6s., [244]
1750, 11, and Maclean, [244]
1750, 15 persons, [246]
1751, 3 boys, [246]
1752, 11 persons, [249]
1754, 12 ” [249]
1757, 12 ” [249]
1769, 5 weavers, [255]
1773, 5 persons, [258]
1780, man for robbing Jeremiah Bentham, [266]
1785, 20, 5 for one robbery, [268]
frequency of, in 1539, [141-42]
under Henry VIII., [142-43]
5,000, in Wales, [143]
Eye—
gallows at, [15]
a witch of, [114]
Eyes, tearing out of, [56]
Farleigh Castle, [124-29]
Ferrers, Earl of, murdered (1177), [82]
Ferrers, Earl—
a homicidal lunatic, [249]
his splendid procession, [250]
“drop” introduced at his execution, [251]
legend of the silk rope, [251]
Fielding, Henry,—
law reformer, [iv], [78]
“Jonathan Wild, the Great,” [234]
Fielding, Sir John, [259]
Fife, Earl of, [104]
Fifth-Monarchy men, outbreak of, [193]
Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester—
attempt to poison, [21-2]
and Elizabeth Barton, [133]
Fitz-Athulf, Constantine, [83-6], [103]
Fitz Osborn (or Osbert), William, known as “Longbeard,” his execution the first recorded at Tyburn, [79], [103]
Flaying alive, [24-5]
Fleet Street, gallows set up in, [152]
“Fleta” quoted, [31 note], [37]
Forests bordering on highways—
cleared, [8], [10 note]
in England, [7-9]
Fortescue, Chief Justice, quoted, [iv], [138]
France—
etiquette of the gallows, [19]
hanging on trees, [19]
the elm, as a symbol of justice, [57]
petty courts, [57 note]
Franchises—
granted by the Crown, [7]
value of franchise of furca et fossa, [18]
Freeman, Edward Augustus, historian, “Norman Conquest” quoted, [13], [56]
French Peasantry, miserable condition of, as compared with English yeomen, [138]
Friars—
mitigate punishment, [vi]
minorite, plead for Jews of Lincoln, [94-5]
lose favour thereby, [95]
Froude, James Anthony, historian, “We cannot blame the Government,” [136]
Fry, Mrs., quoted, [iv]
“Furca et fossa,” [7]
Gahagan, Usher, edits Latin authors, translates Pope into Latin, hanged for filing gold, [242]
Gallows—
great number of, in 13th century, [7]
prioresses have, [7]
ordinary form of, [63]
triangular, [63-4], [249]
how many could be hanged at a time? [64]
new, erected at “The Elms” in 1220, [60], [103]
at “The Elms” in 1170, [60]
great number set up in London in 1554, [152]
and bodies of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw, [191]
movable, introduced, [249]
at Bethnal Green, [255]
high gallows, [99], [100-1], [257]
And see [Tyburn gallows]
Gascoigne, Chief Justice, on peine forte et dure, [38]
Gaunt, Elizabeth, last woman burnt in England for political offence, [207]
Geninges, Edmund—
“Life and Death” of, [65]
manner of his death, [166-67]
George I., [217], [219], [227]
George II., [218], [219]
George III., [219], [262]
Gibbet—
always remote from towns, and why, [62-3]
scanty information as to, [62]
term used loosely, [62]
of Montfaucon, [63]
mention of, [86-7], [88], [100]
Gibbets on Kennington Common [(illustration)]
Gilpin, Bernard, “Apostle of the North,” on rapacity of landlords, [139]
Glastonbury Abbey, Charter of, [13]
Gloucester, Duke of, murdered, [108], [116]
Gloucester, statute of, [14]
Godfrey, Sir Edmund Berry, [178]
probably self-murdered, [200]
supposed murder used politically, [200]
three men hanged for his murder, [201]
Goodman, Thomas—
Parliament petitions for his execution, [184]
dies in Newgate, [184]
Governing classes, ferocity of, [78], [246-48], [257-58]
Governments, under temptation to appeal to ignorance of people, [156-57]
Green, J. R., historian, quoted, [56]
Greenford, gallows at, [15]
Gregory’s Chronicle, [63], [91 note], [110 note], [111-12]
Grey, Lady Jane, [151]
Guilds—
older than King Alfred, [140]
destroyed, [140]
Guillotine, machine resembling, in use in England before the Conquest, [23]
Gunpowder Plot, [66 note]
does not come into Annals of Tyburn, [176]
Habeas Corpus—
not suspended by Charles II., [218]
nor by James II., [219]
suspended by William III. four times, [219]
suspended by Anne once, [219]
suspended by George I. thrice, [219]
suspended by George II. four times, [219]
suspended by George III. twenty times, [219]
insincere writing about, [219 note]
Halifax, machine resembling guillotine in use at, [23]
Hallam, Henry, historian, on habeas corpus, [219 note]
Halliford, gallows at, [16]
Hampstead, gallows at, [16]
“Hanged, drawn and quartered,” see [“Drawing”]
Hanging—
at Spalding, [19]
on trees, [19], [137]
in chains, [80], [99], [236], [246], [247]
from a ladder, [135], [225]
from a cart, [225]
not enough, essays on the question, [246-47]
revival after, see [Revival]
Hanging-Sword Alley, [241-42]
Hangman—
several hanged, [3], [45-8]
public ingratitude towards, [44]
Cratwell, [45], [145]
“Hangman with the stump-leg,” [45], [155]
Bull, [45]
Derrick, [45]
Brandon, Gregory, [45], [46]
Brandon, Richard, [46]
Lowen, [46], [188]
Dun “Esquire,” [46]
Ketch, Jack, [46], [47], [207]
his name became generic, [47]
Rose, Pascha, [46], [207]
Price, John, [47], [228]
Meff, John, [47]
Thrift, John, [48]
Dennis, Edward, [48]
and Jonathan Wild, [235]
Hanover Square, [69 note]
Harington, William, manner of his death, [167]
Harrison, William, historian—
his “Description of England,” [21-4], [22 note], [38-9], [40]
misquotes Cardan, [142-43]
Hawes, Nathaniel, put in the Press, [41]
Hay Hill, Hyde Park, gallows set up at, [152]
Hays, Catherine—
murders her husband, [235-36]
inspires Thackeray’s “Catherine, A Story,” [236]
Heads, strange discovery of, [51-2]
Heiress—
stealing one made a felony, [209]
case of Mary Wharton, [209-11]
Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I., visit to Tyburn, [65], [66 and note], [67], [182]
print representing of no historical value, [67 note]
Henry I., [17], [24], [56-7]
Henry II., [24]
Henry III.—
Attempt to assassinate, [30], [88], [89], [90]
orders new gallows, [60 and note], [63]
mentioned, [93-4]
pardons woman who revives after hanging, [226-27 and note]
Henry IV., [108], [109]
Year Book of, [38]
Henry VI., [112-15]
pardons murderers of Duke of Gloucester after drawing and hanging, [116], [117]
Henry VII., [119], [121], [122], [123], [141 note]
Henry VIII., [77], [126], [132]
divorces Catherine, [132]
invests himself with supremacy of the Church, [133], [134]
divorces Anne Boleyn, [136]
procures dissolution of monasteries, [136]
his order to kill man, woman, and child, [137]
and Cardan, [142-43]
his executions, [142-43], [146]
and Catherine Howard, [150]
Heretics—
Protestant, burnt under James I., [177]
Heytesbury, a seat of the Hungerford family, [124], [125], [126]
Highwaymen—
era of, [78]
proclamations as to, [194-95]
Hind and Hannum, [195]
Duval, [195-98]
rewards for capture of, [195]
rob mail of £2,500, [195]
Manchester carrier of £15,000, [195]
mail of £5,000, [207]
excellent account given by Macaulay, [198]
The Golden Farmer, [211]
Witney, James, [211-13]
seven executed, [212]
20 in Newgate (1693), [213]
8 executed (1694), [213]
“The Gentleman Highwayman,” [244]
strange story of, [259]
Highway robbery, an out-door sport, [258-59]
Hinde, James, a noted highwayman, [194], [195]
Hogarth, William—
representation of Tyburn gallows, [68], [72]
print of Idle Apprentice, [241]
“Blood-Bowl House,” [241]
“Stages of Cruelty,” [245], [248]
“Homors” of Canterbury Cathedral, corruption of “Ormeaux,” [58]
Hope, A. J. B., on discovery of bones, [53]
Hospitals seized, [140]
Hounslow Heath, [151], [259]
Howard, Catherine, [150]
Howard, Frances—
Countess of Essex, [179]
passion for Carr, [179]
poisons Overbury, [179]
procures divorce from Earl of Essex, [179-80]
marries Carr, [180]
pleads guilty to charge of murdering Overbury, [180]
is condemned and pardoned, [180]
her end, [180]
Howell, James, quoted, [177], [181 note]
Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, [80-1]
Hue and Cry—
described by Bracton, [12]
raised in a panic, [12]
raised, [17]
“Humeaux,” [60 note]
And see [“The Elms”]
Hungerford, Lady Alice (Agnes)—
murders her first husband, John Cotell, [124], [126-27]
hanged at Tyburn, [124]
buried in Grey Friars Church, [125]
second wife of Sir Edward Hungerford, [125]
inherits all his goods, [126]
indicted in Somerset, [126]
trial removed to Westminster, [127]
sentenced to be hanged, [127]
Hungerford, Sir Thomas, [124]
Sir Edward, [125], [126], [128], [129]
Hungerford—
House, [125]
Market, [125]
Stairs, [125]
Bridge, [126]
Street, [126]
Hurdle—
mitigates punishment of drawing, [vi]
first mention of, [29 and note]
“hurdle” and “sledge,” words used indifferently, [29 note], [192]
Hyde Park Corner, gallows erected at, [152]
Ickneild Street, [17]
Ina, Law of, [7]
Ireton, Henry, body hanged at Tyburn, [190]
Isabella, wife of Edward II., [101]
Iveney, gallows at, [16]
James I., [176]
executions in reign of, [76]
his “favourites,” [178], [181 note]
correct attitude towards the “Bishop of Rome,” [178]
gross immorality of his Court, [178]
Was he an accomplice in the murder of Overbury? [181]
or guilty of the death of Prince Henry? [181]
Jardine, David, on torture, [36 note]
Jeaffreson, John Cordy, “Middlesex County Records,” [76-7]
Jeffreys, Lord Chancellor, [106]
Jews accused of murder of boy at Lincoln, [91-5]
eighteen hanged, [94]
280 hanged in London and a multitude elsewhere, [97]
lend money on relics, [138 and note]
Johnson, Dr. Samuel—
on procession to Tyburn, [146]
on Bernardi’s imprisonment, [217]
and Dr. Dodd, [262]
on murder of Miss Ray, [264-65]
Johnson, Samuel (Rector of Corringham)—
writes against the Duke of York, [208]
and the Government, [208]
sentenced to be whipped to Tyburn, [208]
degraded, [209]
sentence annulled, [209]
“John the Painter” hanged on gallows 60 feet high, [257]
Jones, Mary—
her piteous story, [255-58]
Sir W. Meredith on, [257-58]
Judges, ferocity of, [28], [36], [40], [42], [166], [207]
Judicial error, terrible in 1386, [105]
“Juges sous l’orme,” [57]
Jura regalia, [7]
of the Most High, [248]
Kennington Common—
execution on, [33], [48]
gibbets on, [(illustration)]
Ketch, Jack, [207]
a famous hangman, [46-7]
beheads Lord William Russell and Duke of Monmouth, [47]
his name becomes generic, [47]
For other hangmen see under [Hangman]
Knightsbridge, gallows at, [15]
Laleham, gallows at, [16]
Landlords, rapacity of, [139]
Latimer, Hugh—
his father a typical yeoman, [138-39]
his sermons quoted, [138-39], [141-42]
on frequency of executions, [141-42]
jests at the burning of Friar Forest, [158 and note]
on commission to try heretics, [158]
jeers at burning of Anabaptists, [158]
Law-French, an exquisite jargon, [33 note]
Lawyers, the object of resentment, [19]
Leofstan, Abbat, founds Wardenship of Chiltern Hundreds, [8-9]
Limbs, lopping off of, [56], [86]
Lincoln—
Jews of, accused of murder of boy, [91-5]
18 hanged, [94]
Cathedral and Little St. Hugh, [93]
Lingard, Dr. John, historian, quoted, [168], [171 note]
Lipsius, Justus, his “De Cruce,” [v], [62]
Llewellyn, brother of David III., head exposed on Tower of London, [100]
Loftie, W. J., quoted, [62]
Lombards, attack on, [116]
London to be called “Little Troy,” [107]
London Bridge, first heads exposed on, [100-1]
Lopez Roderigo—
accused of designing to poison Elizabeth, [167-68]
probably innocent, but executed, [168]
Lorrain, Paul—
Ordinary of Newgate, [67]
his loyalty, [227]
his broadsheets, [228]
his “saints,” [228]
account of last scene, [240-41]
Lundy Island, William Marsh establishes himself as a pirate there, [88-9]
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, historian—
gives excellent account of highwaymen, [198]
on Elizabeth Gaunt, [207]
on Jeremy Collier, [216]
on Major Bernardi, [216]
on habeas corpus, [218-19]
Machiavelli, Niccolò, his “Prince” quoted, [157]
Machyn, Henry, value of his Diary, [151]
Maclean, James—
“The Gentleman Highwayman,” [244-45]
robs Horace Walpole, [244-45]
not a free-thinker, [245]
his skeleton in Surgeons’ Hall, [245]
Magna Carta—
a conception of the thirteenth century, [218]
derided by Cromwell, [218]
the basis of habeas corpus, [218]
Mails robbed, [195], [207]
Manacles, a form of torture, [170]
Mandeville, Bernard de, [78]
describes an execution at Tyburn, [240]
on supply of bodies for dissection, [248-49]
Maps of London and of Middlesex, [65-8]
Marble Arch—
gallows did not stand here, [61]
improvements, [70]
Marteilhe, Jean, [63]
Martyrdom, held to atone for errors of persecutors, [158-59]
Mary, Queen, [77], [151], [159], [177]
Wyatt’s Rebellion, [151-52]
conspiracy to rob Exchequer, [153-55]
Menteith, Earl of, [104]
Mercenaries, Foreign, [140 and note], [141]
Meredith, Sir William—
law reformer, [78]
on case of Mary Jones and another, [257-58]
Middlesex County Records, [76]
Mildmay, Sir Henry, drawn to Tyburn on a sledge, [192-93]
Milksop, John, a thief, strange case of, [17]
Milton, “Comus” quoted, [178]
Minorite Friars—
plead for imprisoned Jews, [94-5]
lose favour thereby, [95]
Misson, Henri—
“Mémoires” quoted, [202 note]
Monasteries—
Dissolution of, [136]
results of, [137-43]
destroys yeomanry, [139]
Monks—
power to release thieves, [13-14]
good landlords, [138], [139], [142]
maintained the poor, [141]
Monmouth, Duke of—
execution, [47]
rebellion of, [206]
Monson, Lord, drawn to Tyburn on a sledge, [192-93]
Montague, Basil—
law reformer, [78]
founds Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge upon the Punishment of Death, [258]
son of the Earl of Sandwich, [265]
Carlyle on, [265]
More, Sir Thomas—
quoted [on title page]
on punishment for theft, [79]
and Elizabeth Barton, [133]
on numbers hanged, [142]
Mortimer, Edmund—
invades the franchise of Montgomery, [18]
Mortimer, Roger—
said in error to be the first executed at Tyburn, [103]
his indictment, [104 note]
Mourning-coach—
allowed to “gentlemen” on their way to Tyburn, [202 and note]
first recorded case, [202 note]
a seat in one refused to a foot-pad, [254]
Mute, prisoners standing—
to be treated as guilty, [42]
to be taken to plead “not guilty,” [43]
And see [Peine forte et dure]
Necromancy, a story of, [112-15]
Newbury, hundred of, fifteen gallows in, [7]
Newgate—
heads set on, [104], [107]
the “drop,” [257], [267]
transfer of executions to, [267]
capacity of new gallows, [268]
20 men hanged at a time, [268]
Norden, map of Middlesex, [65], [67]
Norwich, riot at, [29], [30]
Oates, Titus—
and Tonge invent the Popish Plot, [199-200]
pilloried, whipped, and imprisoned, [202]
last appearance in pillory, [203]
re-established as Protestant champion, [203-4]
his services rewarded, [204]
Ordeal of water, [83 and note]
Orton, Henry, condemned to death, [160-61]
Overbury, Sir Thomas—
murder of, [178-79]
a poet, [178]
Ox-hide used for “drawing,” [28], [99]
“The common,” [104]
Paddington, gallows at, [15]
Pardon Churchyard, burials in, [49-50]
Parliament—
petitions for execution of priests, [157], [184]
conflict on subject of Oates, [203 and note], [204]
petitions for execution of Pickering, [205]
Paston Letters, [10]
Peasants, revolt of, in 1381, [106]; in 1549, [150]
Peine forte et dure—
judge-made, [36]
successive stages of growth, [36-40]
writers mistaken as to results of, [36], [41]
originally severe imprisonment to make accused plead, [37], [38]
Clitherow, Margaret, [39]
Strangewayes, Major, [39], [40]
Harrison on, [38], [39]
became a punishment worse than hanging, [40]
Stanford, Sir William, on, [41 and note]
Spiggott’s case, [41], [229-30]
Hawes’s case, [41], [230]
abolished in 1772, [42]
Thorely’s case, [42]
Mercier’s case, [42]
Chidley’s remonstrance, [187]
Penal Laws, defended by Elizabeth’s Government, [164 note]
Pepys, Samuel—
sees head of Cromwell and others on Westminster Hall, [192]
sees Lord Monson and Sir H. Mildmay being drawn to Tyburn, [193]
Perreau, Robert and Daniel—
and Mrs. Rudd, [260-61]
Mr. Bleackley’s account of, [261]
and Dr. Dodd, [262]
Persecution, religious, considered a duty by the Reformers, [157-58]
Peterborough, Abbat of, kills some of his monks, [138 note]
Philip, husband of Queen Mary, [154]
“Piers Plowman” quoted, [130]
Pike, Luke Owen, “History of Crime” quoted, [203 note]
Pirates, numerous, where and how executed, [20 and note]
Pits for burial at Tyburn, [51]
Placita de Quo Waranto, [14], [15]
Poaching affray, [148-49]
Poisoning made high treason, [21-2]
Act so making it repealed, [22]
“Great Oyer of Poisoning,” [178-81]
Poisons, administered to Overbury, [179]
Pope—
advises Richard I., [81]
Elizabeth’s quarrel with, [156-57]
Bunyan describes his impotent railing, [156]
Pope, Alexander—
his epitaph on Trumball, [216]
“Tyburn’s elegiac lines,” [240 note]
Pope, William, Memoirs of Du Val, [195-97]
Popish Plot, [199-205]
Sixteen persons executed for, [201]
Population of England—
under Henry VIII., estimated at 5,000,000, [141]
Prance, Miles, a perjurer, his punishment, [202-3]
Preachers of new doctrines imported, [139-40], [142]
Predatory Classes, civilisation has improved their opportunities of plunder, [11], [12-13]
Pretenders, adherents of, executed—
in 1715, [227]
in 1718, [228]
in 1746, [33]
in 1753, [249]
Pride, Thomas, [191]
Princes Street, Hanover Square, gallows in, [42-3]
Procession to Tyburn—
halts at St. Giles’s hospital, [4]
great concourse, [145], [215], [243], [250], [261]
Dr. Johnson on, [146], [267]
not allowed to stop for drink, [243]
grandest, [250]
greatest known, [263]
Dr. Dodd on, [263]
Pym, John, his body removed, [192]
Quartering, see [Treason]
“Rageman,” statute so called, [14]
Ray, Miss Martha—
murdered by Hackman, [263-64]
mistress of Lord Sandwich, [264], [265]
mother of Basil Montague, [265]
Grub Street ballad on, [265]
Rebellion—
of 1745, [33], [249]
in Cornwall (1497) [121-22]
in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (1536), [137]; (1541), [149]
in the West and Norfolk (1549), [150-51]
in favour of Lady Jane Grey (1553), [151]
Wyatt’s (1554), [151-52]
in the North (1569), [155]
Great, [185]
Monmouth’s (1685), [206]
Regicides, execution of, [190]
Religious liberty not understood in the 16th century, [157-58]
Reprieve, story of, [266]
“Resources of civilisation,” [217-19]
Revival after hanging, [221-27]
John Smith, [221-23]
Duel, [223-24]
Chovet studies the question, [224]
Gordon, [224]
Reynolds, [224]
two men at Bristol, [224]
Patrick Redmond, [225]
Anne Greene, [225-26]
Margaret Dickenson, [226]
Ivetta de Balsham, after hanging 12 hours, [226-27 and note]
planned by Jack Sheppard, [233]
of Dr. Dodd attempted, [263]
Richard I.—
punishment ordered by, [19]
his crusade, [79]
imprisonment and ransom, [79-80]
removes the justiciar, [81]
Richard II., [106], [108], [109], [110]
Richardson, Samuel, describes an execution at Tyburn, [50-1], [236-40]
Riley, Henry Thomas, quoted, [60 note]
Riots—
in London in 1222, [84-6]
in London in 1267, [95-7]
in Norwich in 1271, [29-30]
in London in 1668, [193-94]
in Strand in 1749, [242-43]
in Bethnal Green in 1769, [255]
Rishton, Edward, condemned to death, [160-61]
Robbery—
ancient forms of, crude and limited, [10], [13]
modern improvement and extension, [10], [11]
Rochester, Bishop of, attempt to poison, [21-2]
Rocque, John, his maps, [68]
Romilly, Samuel, law reformer, [vi], [78], [257 note]
Rose, Richard, boiled to death, [21], [22]
Rotuli Hundredorum, [14], [15], [16]
Royal Exchange, pillory at, [202], [203]
Russell, Lord William,—
executed for Rye House Plot, [47], [206]
and execution of Pickering, [205]
Rye House Plot—
executions for, [205-6]
and Elizabeth Gaunt, [206]
Sadler, Thomas, steals Chancellor’s mace, [198-99]
St. Alban’s—
Leofstan, Abbat of, see [Leofstan]
highwaymen at, [211]
St. George, Hanover Square—
map of Parish, [68]
Dr. Dodd and the living of, [261]
St. Giles-in-the-Fields—
“St. Giles’s bowl,” [4], [243]
supposed site of royal gallows, [58-9], [58 note]
Tangier tavern, lying in state of Claude Duval, [197]
St. Hugh (Little) of Lincoln—
story of, [91-5]
Chaucer’s “Prioress’s Tale,” [91]
St. John of Jerusalem, Priory of, [49], [50]
St. Margaret, Westminster, exhumed bodies buried in a pit, [192]
St. Mary-le-Bow, occurrences at, [80-1], [97-8]
St. Pancras (old church), Jonathan Wild buried at, [235]
St. Paul’s Cathedral, [87]
St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, [197]
Saint Sepulchre’s—
burial in, refused, [50]
burial in, [150]
tolling of great bell established, [175-76]
St. Thomas-a-Waterings—
gallows of, [61]
executions at, [148], [180]
Salisbury, a non-juring parson, forges to prejudice the Government, [220]
Samson, Abbat of Bury St. Edmund’s, [137]
Sandwich, Lord—
“protector” of Martha Ray, [264]
invents the sandwich, [265]
Saussure, César de—
quoted, [iv]
on benefit of clergy, [131]
on peine forte et dure, [230 note]
Savoy, custom of, [10]
Scots, the first and last, on whom the full punishment for treason inflicted, [33]
Sessions—
at Newgate every 3 weeks in 1539, [142]
at the Marshalsea every fortnight, [142]
Shaftesbury, Earl of, directs the Popish Plot, [200-2]
Shakespeare quoted, [64-5], [65 note], [116], [157], [170]
Shard, Justice, strains the law, [28]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, poet, quoted, [v]
Sheppard, Jack—
a great prison-breaker, [230]
story of his last escape, [231-33]
re-captured and hanged, [233]
life written by Defoe, [233]
portrait by Thornhill, [233]
inspired a sermon, [234]
Shepperton, gallows at, [16]
“Ship of Fools,” [iv], [140 note]
Shirley’s “Wedding” quoted, [67]
Shoplifting Act, [vi], [220], [246]
denounced by Romilly, [220]
Shoreditch, Sir John of, his murder, [103-4]
Sidmouth, Viscount, [vi]
Sieveking, Mr. Herbert, [vi], [65 note], [68]
Sisamnes, story of, [24]
“Sixteen-string Jack,” [260]
Slavery, re-established in England, [140]
Sledge, “sledge” and “hurdle,” words used indifferently, [192]
Smith, Sir Thomas—
“De Republica Anglorum,” quoted, [35]
tortures, [35]
on benefit of Clergy, [130-31]
Smithfield—
“The Elms” of, the civic gallows, [57], [58], [59]
burnings here for heresy, [59 and note]
single combat in, [115]
“Fires of Smithfield,” not extinguished by death of “bloody Mary,” [177]
Sir W. Meredith on, [257-58]
execution of highwayman at, [213]
execution of bankrupt at, [227]
Society, for the Diffusion of Knowledge upon the Punishment of Death, [258]
Sorcery, a story of, [112-15]
Southwell, Robert—
tortured, [36]
poet and martyr, [168-69]
Spalding, hanging at, [19]
Spaniards, rumour that Philip has brought in 12,000, [154]
Spiggott, ⸺, put in the Press, [41], [229-30]
Stafford, Thomas, his rebellion and execution, [154]
Staines, gallows at, [16]
Stanford, Sir William, “Les Plees del Coron,” [33 note], [40], [41 and note]
Stanley, Dean, quoted, [25], [58 note]
States General—
surrender Regicides, [190]
and Sir Thomas Armstrong, [206]
Statute Book, 200 capital offences on, [6]
Statutes cited—
3 Edw. I. (1275), c. 12, [37]
4 Edw. I. (1276) (“Rageman”), [14]
4 Edw. I. (1276), c. 1, 2, [131]
6 Edw. I. (1278) (Statute of Gloucester), [14]
13 Edw. I. (1285) (Statute of Winchester), [10 note]
18 Edw. III. (1344), St. 3, c. 2, [132]
25 Edw. III. (1352), St. 5, c. 2, [30-1]
25 Edw. III. (1352), St. 6, c. 4, [129]
3 Henry VII. (1487), c. 3, [209]
4 Henry VII. (1488-9), c. 19, [141 note]
22 Henry VIII. (1530-1), c. 9, [21 and note]
23 Henry VIII. (1531), c. 1, [129]
26 Henry VIII. (1534), c. 1, [133]
27 Henry VIII. (1535-6), c. 25, [143]
32 Henry VIII. (1540-1), c. 16, [147]
1 Edw. VI. (1547), c. 3 (Slave Act), [140]
1 Edw. VI. (1547), c. 12, 22, [132]
1 Eliz. (1559), c. 1, [163]
23 Eliz. (1581), c. 1, [164]
27 Eliz. (1584), c. 2, [175]
1 James I. (1603), c. 15, [227 note]
21 James I. (1623), c. 6, [77]; c. 19, [227]
13 Charles II. (1661), c. 15, [192]
4 & 5 Will. and Mary (1692), c. 8, [195]
7 & 8 Will. III. (1695-6), c. 1, [214]; c. 19, [215]
8 & 9 Will. III. (1696-7), c. 2, c. 8, c. 26, [215]; c. 5, [217]
9 Will. III. (1697), c. 2, c. 21, [215]; c. 4, [217]
10 Will. III. (1698), c. 12,[215] [vi], [78], [220-21], [246]
10 Will. III. (1698), c. 19, [217]
1 Anne (1701), St. 1, c. 29, [217]
4 & 5 Anne (1705), c. 4, [227]
5 & 6 Anne (1706), c. 6, [221]
1 Geo. I. (1714), st. 2, c. 7, [217]
1 Geo. II. (1727), st. 1, c. 4, [218]
5 Geo. II. (1732), c. 30, [227]
8 Geo. II. (1735), c. 20, [224 note]
25 Geo. II. (1752), c. 37, [247], [250]
12 Geo. III. (1772), c. 20, [42]
26 Geo. III. (1786), c. 49, [78]
7 & 8 Geo. IV. (1827), c. 27, [vi]
7 & 8 Geo. IV. (1827), c. 28, [43], [131]
5 Edw. VII. (1905), c. 13, [147]
Acts suspending habeas corpus cited generally, [219]
See also under [Æthelstan], [Alfred], [Henry I.], [Ina], [William the Conqueror].
Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames, opinion that we have gone too far in abolishing the penalty of death, [6]
quoted, [12], [18], [36], [57], [129], [227]
Stirling Castle, siege of, [99-100]
Story, Dr. John—
a bitter persecutor, [157]
his execution memorable, [157]
triangular gallows first used for, [157]
his career, [159]
kidnapped, [159]
executed, [159]
Stow, John, burial of executed persons, [49-50]
Strangeways, Major, manner of his death, [39-40]
Stumphius, an imported preacher, [142]
Strype, John, historian, quoted, [51-2], [69 and note], [158 note]
Surgeons and bodies of executed criminals, [239], [243], [244], [248-49], [249]
Surgeons’ Hall, [223], [248]
Hogarth’s “Stages of Cruelty,” [245]
bodies of murderers to be given to, [247], [248-49]
body of Earl Ferrers in, [250], [251]
body of Mrs. Brownrigg, [253-54]
Swift, Jonathan—
on “Blueskin,” [234 note]
on “Clever Tom Clinch,” [240]
Tarlton, Richard—
his “Jests,” [45], [64 note]
his “Newes out of Purgatorie,” [64]
Teddington, gallows at, [15]
Temple Bar, heads exposed on, [33]
Thieves and robbers pursued without mercy, [13]
Thistlewood and four others, manner of execution, [33], [34]
Throckmorton, Francis, alleged treason of, [163-64 and note]
Thumbs, tying together, [42]
Tilford, the oak of, [15 note]
“Time is money,” [54]
Tonge, Dr. Ezrael, [199]
Topcliffe, Richard, the English Torquemada, [169]
Torture—
illegal, but practised, [35], [36]
Hallam on use of, [35]
use of, denied by Sir Thomas Smith, who practised it, [35]
use of, defended by Lord Burghley, [35-6], [161-62], [162-63 and note]
use of, defended by Sir R. Wiseman, [36 note]
Jardine on, [36 note]
last recorded case, [36 note]
of Edmund Campion, [161-62]
of Alexander Brian, [161-62]
the Government’s defence of, [161-62]
of Francis Throckmorton, [164 note]
of Southwell, [169]
used in ordinary cases, [169-70]
Tower of London, place for exposing heads, [100]
Townley, Francis, manner of execution, [33]
“Trailbaston,” inquisition so called, [16]
Travellers, murder of, [9]
Treason, high—
defined by Statute, [30-1]
punishment of, [31-4]
form of sentence, [31]
later form, [31]
last execution for, [33-4]
Treason, petty, [28], [104], [105], [129]
Treasury of king at Westminster robbed, [11], [24-5]
Turberville, Sir Thomas de—
drawn to gallows on an ox-hide, [28 note], [99]
execution of, [31 note], [98], [99]
Turner, Mrs., inventress of “yellow starch,” [181 note]
Tyburn Gallows—
probable number of persons executed at, [3], [75-8]
methods of execution, [3], [4]
superstition, [48]
slang expressions, [48]
burials from, [49-53]
site of, [54-70]
gallows, when first set up, not before Conquest, [54]
probably about 1108, [56-7]
first known as “The Elms,” [57]
no evidence of supposed changes of site of royal gallows, [58], [60-1]
Earl of Oxford has gallows here, [59]
gallows in constant use, [61]
permanent, [61]
movable, [61], [69-70]
why so far from city, [61-3]
and gibbets, [62]
original form of gallows, [63]
triangular, [63-4], [67-8], [71]
proposals to remove, [69]
removed, [69-70]
last execution at, [70], [72]
chronology of, [71-2]
Dryden on, [74]
annals of meagre, [75]
mention of, sometimes omitted, [91 note]
first recorded execution, [79]
mistake as to Roger Mortimer, [103]
said to be hung with garlands, [182]
Chidley nails his protest near, [187]
whipping from Newgate to, [202], [208], [209]
pillory at, [202]
said to be hung in mourning, [214]
reason of removal to Newgate, [267], [268]
martyrs of, [268]
Oratory near, [268]
Tyburn Gate, [70]
Tyburn ticket, [220 and note]
Villon, François, poet of the gibbet, [63]
Wallace—
execution of, [31-2], [32 note], [99], [100]
his head the first exposed on London Bridge, [100]
Walpole, Horace—
robbed by Maclean, [244-45]
his account of execution of Earl Ferrers, [251]
Wapping—
execution of pirates at, [20 and note]
Execution Dock, [63]
Warbeck, Perkin, pretender, [120-21]
Watling Street, [8], [17], [67]
Waverley Abbey, reference to, [15 note]
Weavers of Bethnal Green, [254-55]
“Were” and “wite,” [55]
Westbourne, gallows at, [16], [58]
Westminster, Abbat of—
has 16 gallows in Middlesex, [13], [15-16], [58]
houses wrecked, [84-5]
Westminster Abbey, Dean’s Yard, formerly “The Elms,” [58]
Wharton, Mary, stolen, [209-11]
Whitney, James, a noted highwayman, [211-13]
Wild, Jonathan—
director of a great system of robbery, [234-35]
exploits celebrated by Fielding, [234]
pelted on way to Tyburn, [235]
William the Conqueror abolishes capital punishment, [56]
substitutes other punishments, [56]
William III.—
Shoplifting Act, [78]
Assassination Plot, [215-17]
imprisons Bernardi without trial, [217]
the first king who suspends habeas corpus, [218-19]
William, the sacrist of Westminster Abbey, [11], [24-5]
Winchester—
roads near, unsafe, [9-10]
Statute of, [10 note]
Woman burnt for treason—
Mrs. Gaunt, in 1685, the last, except for coining, [207]
narrow escape of Mrs. Merewether, [207]
Wren, Sir Christopher, [225]
Wyatt, Sir Thomas—
his rebellion, [151-52]
beheaded, [152]
“Yellow Starch,” [181 note]
Yeomen, English—
a prosperous class, [138]
helped to maintain poor, [139], [141]
destroyed, [139], [140], [141]
Yonge, Justice—
his methods, [166]

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