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in cheek enacted in 1699, repealed in 1706, 221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”