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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