[154] ‘Calendar,’ i. 146.
[155] The husband of the Lady Macclesfield, who was mother to Richard Savage. See ante, p. 340.
[156] ‘Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke,’ by George Harris, i. 176.
[157] Where Lambeth Suspension Bridge now stands.
[158] The crime of petty treason was established when any person out of malice took away the life of another to whom he or she owed special obedience—as when a servant killed his master, a wife her husband, or an ecclesiastic his superior. The wife’s accomplices in the murder of a husband were not deemed guilty of petty treason.
[159] The infamous Judge Jeffries in 1685 sentenced Elizabeth Gaunt to be burnt alive at Tyburn, for sheltering persons concerned in Monmouth’s rebellion.
[160] As barristers often preferred to do business at their own homes, chambers in the Temple were rather at a discount just then, and their landlords, “preferring tenants of no legal skill to no tenants at all, let them out to any that offered, ...” consequently many private people creep about the Inns of Court.—‘Newgate Calendar,’ i. 470.
[161] ‘Newgate Calendar,’ i. 189.
[162] “Beau” Fielding, who was tried at the Old Bailey in 1706 for committing bigamy with the Duchess of Cleveland, is one of the most remarkable instances of this. See ‘Celebrated Trials,’ iii. 534. Also see the trial of the Duchess of Kingston, ‘Remarkable Trials,’ 203. She was tried by the House of Lords, found guilty, but pleaded her peerage and was discharged.
[163] Hackham was present at Dr. Dodd’s execution a short time previously. His remarks on the subject will be found in vol. ii. chap. i.