[97] ‘The Punishment of Death in the Metropolis.’ E. Gibbon Wakefield, p. 139.
[98] It was the Rev. Peter Fenn.
[99] By 32 Henry VIII. cap. 42 (1540), surgeons were granted four bodies of executed malefactors for “anathomyes,” which privilege was extended in the following reign.—Haydn, ‘Dict. of Dates,’ p. 32.
[100] Sir Baptist Hicks also built Campden House, Kensington. In 1628 he was created Baron Hicks and Viscount Campden, with remainder to his daughter’s children. She was the wife of Lord Noel, ancestor of the present Earl of Gainsborough.
[101] ‘New Monthly Magazine,’ 1855, p. 376.
[102] This murder inspired De Quincey’s ‘Murder as one of the Fine Arts.’
[103] Dymond, ‘The Law on its Trial,’ p. 57.
[104] Dymond, ‘The Law on its Trial,’ p. 194.
[105] That of Roderick Maclean, 1882.
[106] See cap. i. p. 7.