- Paisley, books burnt, [170];
- Parish registers at Halifax, [125]
- Paulmy, pillory at, [145-146]
- Peine forte et dure, [87-94]
- Pendleton Moor, gibbet at, [51-53]
- Pentrich, plot planned at, [80]
- Pepys, S., [148]
- Pillory, the, [143-158]
- Pirate gibbeted at Hornsea, [55]
- Plymouth ducking-stools, [266-268]
- Popish plot, [149]
- Prayer Book burnt, [163]
- Prayers at St. Sepulchre's Church, [13]
- Pressing to death, [87-94]
- Preston brank, [286];
- pillory, [152]
- Prynne, W., [163]
- Public executions, [38]
- Public penance, [227-238]
- Punishing Authors and Burning Books, [159-170]
- Pythagoras, [159]
- Raleigh, Sir Walter, [113]
- Ratcliff Highway, [247]
- Refusing to plead, [87-94]
- Repentance stool, [239-242]
- Riddle, a grim, [58]
- Riding the stang, [299-306]
- Ridware Beaudesart brank, [287]
- Rioting at executions, [14-16]
- Rizzio, murder of, [131]
- Rochester, Bishop of, [106-111]
- Rochford, Viscountess, [111]
- Rome, books burnt at, [159]
- Romilly, Sir Samuel, advocates humane reforms, [86]
- Roose boiled to death, [106]
- Ross, Sir William, [9]
- Rothesay, [179]
- Roxby, penance at, [233]
- Rugby ducking-stool, [254]
- Rushmere Heath, burning to death on, [103]
- Rye, gibbeting at, [48];
- pillory [154]
- Sabbath-breaking, [190]
- Sack-cloth, [239]
- Saddler of Bawtry, [12]
- Salisbury, Countess of, [112]
- Sancton, penance at, [237]
- Sandwich, drowning at, [96];
- ducking-stool, [248]
- Scarborough ducking-stool, [262-263]
- Scotch pedlars whipped, [216]
- [311]Scotland, drowning, [96];
- Scottish Maiden, [128-133]
- Scrooby, gibbet at, [59]
- Second statute of labourers, [187]
- Selby ducking-stool, [258]
- Servants, whipping, [224-226]
- Seymour, Lord, [112]
- Shakespeare and the stocks, [188-189]
- Shelley on an execution, [84]
- Shooting at a gibbeted man, [59]
- Shore, Jane, penance of, [230-232]
- Shrewsbury brank, [296]
- Shropshire Assizes, [136];
- gibbet, [46]
- Shrouds of condemned criminals, [34]
- Silken rope, [17-18]
- Sixteen-string Jack, [14]
- Skimmington-riding, [303]
- Skipton ducking-stool, [260];
- stocks, [198]
- Slaves branded, [138]
- Slight offences, executions for, [30]
- Somerset, Duke of, [112]
- Southam ducking-stool, [251]
- Splicing the rope, [25]
- St. Andrews, boy punished, [178];
- brank, [298]
- St. Paul's Churchyard, books burnt in, [160]
- St. Giles's bowl, [11]
- Stafford, Viscount, [114]
- Staffordshire branks, [287]
- Stanfield, Philip, [43]
- Stanningley stocks, [196]
- Stockport brank, [282];
- stocks, [200]
- Stocks, the, [186-200]
- Stokesley, penance at, [235-237]
- Stow, penance at, [241]
- Strafford, Earl of, [114]
- Strangeways, Major, [92-93]
- Stubbs, [161]
- Suffolk, Duke of, [112]
- Surrey, Earl of, [112]
- Sutton, riding stang at, [301]
- Swimming a witch, [50]
- Taylor on Halifax law, [122];
- on whipping-posts, [211]
- Thewe, [245]
- Thurlow, Lord, on the pillory, [155]
- Tolbooth, Edinburgh, [129]
- Tower of London, [110]
- Tring, gibbet at, [50-51]
- Tudor manners, [177]
- Tumbrel, [268]
- Tutor's Assistant, drawing by Cruikshank, [226]
- Tyburn, [11]
- Tyrwhitt, Robert, [9]
- Wakefield ducking-stool, [258];
- Wallingford pillory, [244]
- Walsall brank, [287], [288]
- Waltham Abbey whipping-post, pillory and stocks, [211-214]
- Walton-on-Thames, brank at, [278]
- Wardlow, gibbet at, [71]
- Warrington brank, [285];
- museum, [67]
- Warton, [165]
- Warwick, tumbrel at, [270]
- Wedding clothes, executed in, [17]
- Welsh customs, [305]
- West Calder, [239]
- Whip-cord, torturing with, [89]
- Whipping Act, [210]
- Whipping and Whipping-Posts, [209-226]
- Whiston stocks, [192]
- Whitchurch brank, [297]
- Whitfield, notorious highwayman, [58]
- Wigtown, hangman at, [18];
- William the Conqueror introduces beheading, [108]
- Williams, bookseller, [169-170]
- Wilson, Alexander, [170]
- Winchester, coiners punished at, [135]
- Wirksworth, penance at, [233]
- Witchcraft, [50];
- burning to death for, [99]
- Wolsey, Cardinal, in the stocks, [193]
- Women drowned, [95];
- whipped, [218]
- Wootton Bassett, tumbrel at, [268-269]
- Worcester, [115], [217-218], [296]
- Worsborough ducking-stool, [259]
- Yarmouth, pirate gibbeted at, [67]
"Mr. Andrews' books are always interesting."—Church Bells.