|
Executions at Tyburn 1765 – 1774. |
With special
thanks to Mr. Dave Mossop for allowing me to publish the results of his years
of painstaking research thus enabling this unique insight into 18th century
crime and punishment. If you would like more detail on some of these
cases or wish to view the trial transcripts, go to the Old Bailey on-line
website at http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
686 death
sentences were passed during this decade on 630 men and 56 women. Of
these, 282 men and 12 women were duly executed. Overall reprieve rate :
57.15%. Male reprieves : 55.24% Female reprieves : 78.57%.
A further 6
men who were condemned in 1774 were hanged in 1775 and are not included in the
executed figures, nor are people condemned at the Old Bailey but executed other
than at Tyburn.
1765
There were
7 “hanging days” at Tyburn with 24 men and 1 woman being hanged.
A total of
42 people were sentenced to death in this year, comprising of 35 men and 7
women.
6 men were
hanged in January 1765, who had been sentenced at the December 1764 Sessions.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 9th January (sentenced in 1764) |
John Morton |
Stealing in a warehouse |
|
Thomas Strong |
Stealing in a warehouse |
|
|
George Mitchell |
Horse theft |
|
|
William Witton |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
|
John Watkins |
Burglary |
|
|
John Weskett |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
The
Sessions held on the 16th of January resulted in 7 men being sentenced to
death, of whom 3 were reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 13th February |
Matthew James |
Uttering |
|
John Ward |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Edward Williams |
Robbery in a dwelling house |
|
|
John Rowson |
Burglary |
The February
Sessions that began on the 27th, resulted in a further 5 men being sentenced to
death, of whom 4 were hanged.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 17th April |
John Cooke (aka George Miln) |
Forgery |
|
Charles Sebrey |
Burglary |
|
|
Richard Perry |
Burglary |
|
|
John Taylor |
Burglary |
The April
Sessions resulted in one man receiving the death sentence.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 15th May |
Burglary |
The 22nd of
May Sessions also resulted in one death sentence – on Mary Edwards, who was
subsequently reprieved.
The
Sessions on the 10th of July saw 7 men and 1 woman get the death sentence, of
whom 3 of the men and the woman were reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 31st July |
Thomas Carr |
Perjury |
|
Francis Attaway |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Barney Carrol |
Cutting & maiming |
|
|
William King |
Cutting & maiming |
The next Sessions
began on the 18th of September and resulted in 5 men and 3 women being
sentenced to death. One man and 2 of the women were reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 23rd September |
Anthony Delaney |
Murder |
|
James Grief |
Murder |
|
|
Maria Jenkins |
Murder of bastard child |
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 9th October |
James Haines |
Highway robbery |
|
John M’Kenzie |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
Only 2 death
sentences were passed at the October Sessions on the 16th of that month with 1
man being subsequently reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 13th November |
Forgery |
The December
Sessions opened on the 11th and 8 men and 2 women received death sentences, of
whom 2 men and 1 woman were reprieved. 6 men and 1 woman were left for
execution in January 1766.
1766
31 men and
4 women were sentenced to death during this year. 18 men and 2 women were
executed at 6 “hanging days”.
The first
Sessions of 1766 were held on the 16th of January and resulted in 3 death
sentences.
2 men were reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 15th
January |
Stephen Wheat |
Stealing in a river |
|
Robert Tull |
Stealing in a river |
|
|
James Williams |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Robert Scott |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Edward Benson |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Mary Pyner |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
|
Thomas Reynolds |
Highway robbery |
4 men and a
woman were condemned at the February Sessions on the 19th, of whom 1 man and
the woman were later reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 19th March |
John Wilson |
Uttering |
|
Roger Bryer |
Personate |
|
|
John Jewster |
Personate |
|
|
William Barlow |
Highway robbery |
5 men and a
woman were condemned at the 9th of April Sessions, with 3 men being later
hanged.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 7th May |
William Crompton |
Personate |
|
John Slack |
Horse theft |
|
|
Robert Slack |
Horse theft |
The next
Sessions opened on the 14th of May and resulted in death sentences on 2 men and
2 women. 1 man and 1 woman were reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 18th June |
Edward Mc Ginnis |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
Jane Mc Ginnis |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
The
Sessions on the 2nd of July resulted in 4 men being condemned, of whom 3 were
definitely reprieved. Alexander Calton is not showing either as reprieved
or hanged.
On the 3rd
of September, 4 men were condemned, of whom 2 were reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Thursday 9th October |
Edward Brophy |
Rape |
|
Robert Lloyd |
Highway robbery |
3 men were
sentenced to death at the October Sessions on the 22nd of that month. One
man was reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 26th November |
John Clarke |
H/T Coining |
|
James Felton |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
6 men were
condemned at the December Sessions on the 17th of that month and as a result, 4
men were hanged on
1767
44 men and
3 women were sentenced to death during this year. There were 7 “hanging
days” at Tyburn this year with 20 men and 1 woman being hanged.
As a result
of the January Sessions on the 15th of the month, 6 men were sentenced to
death, of whom 3 were reprieved. John Williamson was hanged at Moorfields
on Monday, the 19th of January, for the murder of his wife and is not included
below.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 14th
January |
Samuel Orton |
Forgery |
|
William Thornbill |
Forgery |
|
|
William Johnson |
Highway robbery |
|
|
William Walker |
Highway robbery |
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Tuesday 17th February |
Timothy Iredale |
Highway robbery |
|
William Collinson |
Forgery |
3 men
received death sentences at the February Sessions and all were reprieved.
The April Sessions
on the 29th of that month resulted in 16 men and 1 woman being condemned, of
whom 6 men were executed.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 4th March |
Murder |
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 10th June |
William Elliott |
Housebreaking |
|
Samuel Knock |
Burglary |
|
|
Jacob Wood |
Burglary |
|
|
John McDonnell |
Forgery |
|
|
Lawrence Sweetman |
Highway robbery |
The June Sessions
opened on the 3rd and resulted in 3 men being condemned, all of whom were
reprieved.
The July
Sessions saw a further 3 men condemned, again all being reprieved.
7 men and a
woman were sentenced to hang at the September Sessions on the 9th of the month,
of whom 3 men were reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 14th September |
Murder |
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 14th October |
William Guest |
H/T coining |
|
Thomas Davis |
Burglary |
|
|
John Spires |
Highway robbery |
|
|
William Bryan |
Highway robbery |
7 men were
condemned at the October Sessions on the 21st of that month, with 3 reprieves.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 25th November |
Joseph Harvey |
Burglary |
|
Richard Bitter |
Burglary |
|
|
John Brass |
Robbery in a dwelling house |
|
|
William Edwards |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
The Sessions
held on the 9th of December resulted in death sentences being passed on 2 men
and 1 woman, 2 of whom were reprieved. There is no trace of either a
reprieve or an execution for the other man.
1768
There were
10 “hanging days” at Tyburn in 1768 with 18 men and 3 women being
executed. 51 men and 7 women were condemned during this year. A
further 7 men were hanged at Sun Tavern Fields, Shadwell for the crime of
“shooting at” Mr. John Green outside his house in St. Paul’s Shadwell.
These are not included in the Tyburn total.
The first
Sessions of the New Year were held on the 14th of January resulting in 7 men
being condemned, of whom 4 were reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 18th January |
Murder |
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 10th February |
Patrick Swinney |
Highway robbery |
|
Timothy Crawley |
Highway robbery |
The
February Sessions led to another 4 men and 2 women being sentenced to death, of
whom 2 men and the women were reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Tuesday 23rd March |
James Gibson |
Forgery |
|
Benjamin Payne |
Highway robbery |
4 men and 1
woman were condemned at the April Sessions on the 13th, of whom 3 men and the
woman were reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 11th May |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
The May Sessions
on the 18th saw a further 3 men and a woman condemned. Of these, only the
woman was hanged.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 29th June |
Murder |
12 men were
sentenced to hang at the 6th of July Sessions. Of these, 2 were
reprieved. 7 were the ones condemned for shooting at John Green and hanged near
the scene of their crime at Sun Tavern Fields, Shadwell.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 11th July |
James Murphy |
Murder |
|
James Dogan |
Murder |
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 27th July |
Shot at |
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Tuesday 26th July |
John Grainger |
Shot at |
|
Daniel Clark |
Shot at |
|
|
Richard Cornwall |
Shot at |
|
|
Patrick Lynch |
Shot at |
|
|
Thomas Murray |
Shot at |
|
|
Peter Flaherty Nicholas |
Shot at |
|
|
Nicholas MacCabe |
Shot at |
8 men and 1
woman were condemned at the September Sessions which opened on the 7th. 3
men being subsequently reprieved and 1 died in gaol.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 12th October |
Hannah Smith |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
Richard Slocombe |
Personate |
|
|
Robert Paterson |
Highway robbery |
|
|
James Mace |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Richard Holt |
Forgery |
8 men were
condemned at the October Sessions on the 19th. Of these, 5 were executed.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 24th October |
Murder |
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 23rd November |
Edward Williams |
At large |
|
John Urquart |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Patrick Hanlon |
Highway robbery |
|
|
William Miller |
Highway robbery |
The final Sessions
of 1768 took place on the 7th of December with 5 men and 2 women being
sentenced to death. 4 of the men and 1 woman were reprieved. The man’s
execution was held over until 1769.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 21st December |
Murder |
1769
There were
10 “hanging days” at Tyburn in 1769 with 25 men and unusually no women being
executed. 63 men and 7 women were condemned during this year. A further
2 men, John Doyle and John Valentine, were hanged at Cock Lane, Bethnal Green
on Wednesday, the 6th of December for breaking looms.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 11th January (sentenced in 1768) |
Burglary |
The 4th of
January Sessions saw 10 men receive death sentences, of whom 5 were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 22nd February |
John Burrow |
Highway robbery |
|
John Casey |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
|
Jasper Webb |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Edward Williams |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Robert Davis |
Burglary |
Death
sentences were passed on 3 men at the February Sessions on the 22nd of that
month, only 1 of these being carried out.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 15th March |
Highway robbery |
5 men and 1
woman were condemned at the 5th of April Sessions, of whom 2 men were to hang.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Tuesday 9th of May
|
George Williams |
Highway robbery |
|
Richard Brace |
Forgery |
4 men and 3
women were condemned at the 10th of May Sessions and all reprieved.
A further
10 men received death sentences at the June Sessions on the 28th. 5 of
these were commuted.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 26th July |
Thomas Mellor (or Miller) |
Rape |
|
William Dunk |
At large |
|
|
Robert Merry |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Richard Belcher |
Highway robbery |
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 9th August |
Forgery |
The 6th of September
Sessions resulted in 15 men and 2 women being condemned. 8 men and the 2 women
were reprieved.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 11th September |
Murder |
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 18th October |
George Law |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
John Stackhouse |
Highway robbery |
|
|
William Litchfield |
Highway robbery |
|
|
John Anning |
Forgery |
|
|
Joseph Godwin |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Joseph Simpson |
Highway robbery |
10 men and 1
woman received death sentences at the 18th of October Sessions.
Only 3 were not commuted. Two of these were the men who were hanged at Bethnal
Green and the other was Richard Bransby at Tyburn.
|
Date of execution |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 8th November |
Richard Bransby |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
6 men were
condemned at the 6th of December Sessions, with 2 men being reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 20th of December
|
William Eastman |
Destroying looms |
|
William Horsfield |
Destroying looms |
|
|
Joseph Brown |
Burglary |
|
|
John Carmichael |
Burglary |
1770
There were
9 “hanging days” at Tyburn in this year with 44 men and 1 woman being executed.
No less than 83 men and 8 women were condemned during this year.
The January
Sessions on the 17th of that month saw 11 men receive death sentences, of whom
6 were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 14th February
|
William Patterson |
Highway robbery |
|
John Chapman |
Highway robbery |
|
|
John Jones |
Burglary |
|
|
William Moody |
Burglary |
|
|
Thomas Dunk |
Highway robbery |
7 men were
condemned at the February Sessions on the 21st with 5 reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Thursday 19th April
|
Joseph Jarvis |
Burglary |
|
Benjamin Millicent |
Burglary |
24 men and
6 women were sentenced to death at the April Sessions held on the 25th.
13 of the men were hanged.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 16th May
|
William Lewis |
Highway robbery |
|
Samuel Clarke |
Highway robbery |
|
|
John Green |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Job Parker |
Housebreaking |
|
|
Thomas Gahagen |
Highway robbery |
|
|
William Ogilvie |
Burglary |
|
|
Stephen Strutton |
Burglary |
|
|
John Wood |
Burglary |
|
|
Thomas Bowers |
Highway robbery |
|
|
James Newman |
Highway robbery |
|
|
James Ford |
Burglary |
|
|
William Miller |
Burglary |
|
|
Thomas Crookhall |
Burglary |
13 men were
condemned at the May Sessions that opened on the 30th. 5 of these were
reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 4th June
|
Charles Stevens |
Murder |
|
William Holyoak |
Murder |
|
|
Henry Hughes |
Murder |
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 4th July
|
James Attaway |
Robbery in a dwelling house |
|
Richard Bailey |
Robbery in a dwelling house |
|
|
Frances Lutterell |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
|
John Reed |
At large |
|
|
Daniel Pfluyer |
Burglary |
7 men were
sentenced to death at the 11th of July Sessions with only 1 reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Thursday 19th July
|
John Purcell |
Murder |
|
Michael Richardson |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Peter Connoway |
Highway robbery |
It is
probable that Richardson and Connoway’s crime involved the death of the victim
as they were hanged so soon after sentence.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 1st August
|
William Sleight |
Burglary |
|
William Donaldson |
Housebreaking |
|
|
John Stretton** |
Highway robbery |
**
afterwards hanged in chains on Finchley Common as he had robbed the mail.
7 men and 2
women were condemned at the 12th of September sessions with 3 of the men and 1
woman being reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 10th October
|
Mary Ann Ryan |
Highway robbery |
|
James Simpson |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Joseph Josephs |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Charles M’Donald |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Henry Dixon |
Burglary |
A further 8
men were sentenced to death at the 24th of October Sessions with just 2
reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Tuesday 4th December
|
John Barton |
Horse theft |
|
Bartholomew Langley |
Bestiality |
|
|
Joseph Knight |
Robbery in a dwelling house |
|
|
Thomas Bird |
Robbery in a dwelling house |
|
|
William Payne |
Robbery in a dwelling house |
|
|
William Brent |
Burglary |
5 male death
sentences were passed at the December 5th Sessions, of which 4 were carried out
the following January.
1771
There were
10 “hanging days” at Tyburn this year with 34 men and 2 women being
hanged. 62 men and 6 women were condemned during the year.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 2nd January (sentenced in 1770) |
Mark Marks |
Highway robbery |
|
Thomas Hands |
Shot at |
|
|
John Clarke |
Highway robbery |
|
|
John Joseph Defoe |
Highway robbery |
The January
Sessions on the 16th of that month saw 2 men and a woman receive death
sentences. 1 man and the woman were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 13th February |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
7 men were condemned
at the February Sessions on the 20th of that month. Of these, only 2 of
them were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 27th March
|
Richard Martin |
Shot at |
|
Thomas Peake |
At large |
|
|
John Sidey |
Burglary |
|
|
Luke Canon |
Burglary |
|
|
George Burch |
Burglary |
The April
Sessions saw 5 men condemned, of whom only 1 was reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 8th May
|
Benjamin Isaacs |
Housebreaking |
|
John Haynes |
Housebreaking |
|
|
Richard Hewitt |
Murder |
|
|
William Charlton |
Burglary |
The next
Sessions opened on the 15th of May and 11 men were sentenced to hang, 6 men
being subsequently executed.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 26th June
|
Robert King |
Burglary |
|
William Jackson |
Highway robbery |
|
|
John Suttle |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Robert Connor |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
|
John Hatton |
Burglary |
|
|
Edward Vaughan |
H/T Coining |
9 men and 2
women were condemned at the 3rd of July Sessions, of whom 5 men and 1 woman
were reprieved. Henry Stroud and Robert Campbell were hanged at Bethnall
Green for murder on Monday, the 8th of July.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 7th August
|
Thomas Jones |
Housebreaking |
|
Matthew Poland |
Housebreaking |
|
|
Frances Allen |
Housebreaking |
8 men and 2
women were condemned at the September Sessions which opened on the 11th. 4 men
and 1 woman being reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 16th October
|
James Allen |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
Mary Jones |
Stealing in a shop |
|
|
William Penn |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Richard Thompson |
Highway robbery |
|
|
John Hughes |
Highway robbery |
7 men and a
woman were condemned at the October Sessions on the 23rd, of whom 3 men
and the woman were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Friday 1st November |
Frederick Wilkie |
Murder |
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 27th November |
Michael Murray |
Stealing in a shop |
|
John Freel |
Stealing in a shop |
|
|
John Donaldson |
Forgery |
13
men/women received death sentences at the December Sessions on the 4th, of whom
6 were reprieved, 4 hanged immediately for murder and 3 held over for execution
until the following January.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 9th December
|
Asher Weil |
Murder |
|
Levi Weil |
Murder |
|
|
Hyam Lazarus |
Murder |
|
|
Solomon Porter |
Murder |
1772
There were 8
“hanging days” at Tyburn this year with 32 men and no women being hanged.
88 men and 4 women were sentenced to death in this year.
The first
set of executions took place on the 2nd of January when those not reprieved
from the December 1771 Sessions were hanged.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Thursday 2nd January (sentenced in 1771)
|
Robert Powell |
Forgery |
|
Edward Burch |
Forgery |
|
|
Matthew Martin- |
Forgery |
The January
Sessions on the 9th of that month saw 10 men and 1 woman receive death sentences.
3 men and the woman being reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 5th February
|
William Smith (aka Thumper) |
Housebreaking |
|
Charles Burton |
Burglary |
|
|
Francis Phoenix |
Burglary |
|
|
William Owen |
Burglary |
|
|
Edward Flanaghan |
Burglary |
|
|
William Parker |
Burglary |
|
|
John Burn |
Burglary |
6 men were
condemned at the February Sessions on the 19th of that month and all but 1
subsequently reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 18th March |
Forgery |
7 male
death sentences were passed at the April Sessions, of which 4 were carried out.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 27th May
|
Peter M’Cloud |
Housebreaking |
|
Richard Morgan |
Stealing in dwelling house |
|
|
Samuel Roberts |
H/T Coining |
|
|
Thomas Bacchus |
H/T Coining |
Death
sentences were passed on 14 men and 1 woman at the June Sessions on the 3rd. 8
of the men and the woman were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 8th July
|
William Siday |
Housebreaking |
|
William Paris |
Housebreaking |
|
|
John Adshead |
Burglary |
|
|
Benjamin Alsworth |
Burglary |
|
|
Joseph Guyant |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Joseph Allpress |
Highway robbery |
Guyant and
Allpress were afterwards hanged in chains on Finchley Common.
10 male
death sentences were recorded at the July Sessions and at least 8 were
reprieved. George Lovell is said to have been hanged on the 14th of
October but this cannot be confirmed.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 5th August |
Highway robbery |
14 men and
2 women were condemned at the September Sessions with 10 men and the 2 women
being reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 14th October
|
John Jones |
Housebreaking |
|
John Sunderland |
Housebreaking |
|
|
John Chapman |
Housebreaking |
|
|
John Creamer |
At large |
The 21st of
October Sessions were equally busy with another 15 men being sentenced to
death. 9 were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 18th November
|
Henry Duffield |
Highway robbery |
|
Benjamin Murphy |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Thomas Murphy |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Charles Earle |
Highway robbery |
|
|
William Wiggins |
Highway robbery |
|
|
John Savage |
Highway robbery |
12 men were
condemned at the December Sessions that opened on the 9th, of whom 5 were
hanged in January 1773.
1773
There were
10 “hanging days” at Tyburn, this with 36 men being hanged and 1 woman being
burned at the stake. 87 men and 4 women were condemned during this
year.
10 men were
condemned at the January Sessions on the 13th of that month with 6 reprieves.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 20th
January
|
William Simpson |
Highway robbery |
|
George Turner |
Highway robbery |
|
|
William Griffiths |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Benjamin Bird |
Forgery |
|
|
Nathaniel Bayley |
Highway robbery |
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 24th February
|
Matthew Doyle |
Highway robbery |
|
Joseph Richardson |
Burglary |
|
|
Samuel Male |
Highway robbery |
|
|
William Brannan |
Housebreaking |
12 men and
a woman were condemned at the February Sessions on the 17th of that month. Only
2 of the men being subsequently hanged.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Friday 16th April
|
Joseph Piddick |
H/T coining |
|
James Sheridan |
Highway robbery |
The next
Sessions opened on Wednesday, the 21st of April and 12 men were condemned, of
whom 7 were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Friday 18th June
|
John Duffy |
Burglary |
|
Richard Bolton |
Burglary |
|
|
William Collins |
Burglary |
|
|
Thomas Oates |
Burglary |
|
|
Thomas Spooner |
Burglary |
15 men and a
woman received death sentences at the Sessions which commenced on the 26th of
May. 10 of the men and the woman being subsequently reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 30th June
|
James Monk |
Housebreaking |
|
William Boyde |
Shot at |
|
|
Edward Delaney |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Joseph Cooper |
Burglary |
|
|
John Johnson |
Forgery |
10 men and
a woman were condemned at the 7th of July Sessions, of whom 3 men and the woman
were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 11th August
|
Thomas Younger |
Burglary |
|
Thomas Grant |
Burglary |
|
|
James Holmes |
Burglary |
|
|
Maurice Murray |
Burglary |
|
|
Thomas Plunkett |
Highway robbery |
|
|
William Emes |
Forgery |
|
|
John Lennard |
Rape |
The September
Sessions, which opened on the 8th, led to 14 men being sentenced to hang and 1
woman being sentenced to be burned at the stake. 9 of the men were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 13th September |
Elizabeth Herring (burnt) |
P/T murder of husband |
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 27th October
|
John Sterling |
Forgery |
|
Thomas Ashby |
Burglary |
|
|
Edward McDonald |
Burglary |
|
|
William Cox |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
|
Emmanuel Poole |
Housebreaking |
7 men were
condemned at the 20th of October Sessions, of whom 4 were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 25th October |
Murder |
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 24th November |
Holdsworth Hill |
Housebreaking |
|
James Child |
Highway robbery |
7 men
received death sentences at the Sessions on the 8th of December, of whom 5 were
reprieved and the other 2 men hanged the following January.
1774
There were 10
“hanging days” at Tyburn, this with 31 men and a woman being hanged. 86
men and 7 women were condemned during this year.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 19th January (sentenced in 1773) |
Robert Johnson |
Forgery |
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Thursday 27th January (sentenced in 1773) |
Robert Leigh |
Forgery |
10 men and
a woman were condemned at the 12th of January Sessions, of whom 6 men and the
woman were reprieved. Those not reprieved were hanged in March.
12 men were
condemned at the February Sessions on the 16th of that month and 7 were
reprieved. The other 5 were hanged in April.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 2nd March
|
Thomas Clift (aka Murrell) |
Burglary |
|
John Osborne |
Housebreaking |
|
|
Robert Simmonds |
Highway robbery |
|
|
James Bishop |
Highway robbery |
The 13th of
April Sessions led to 12 men and 3 women being condemned, of whom 9 0f the men
and all 3 women were subsequently reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Friday 22nd April
|
William Harley |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
George Browne |
Burglary |
|
|
Robert Anderson |
Burglary |
|
|
Dennis Doyle |
Housebreaking |
|
|
Thomas Ives |
H/T coining |
The May Sessions
opened on the 18th and resulted in death sentences on 8 men and 1 woman.
6 of the men were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 23rd May |
Murder of her bastard child |
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 25th May
|
George Little |
Burglary |
|
William Rice |
Housebreaking |
|
|
James Mullins |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Friday 1st July
|
William Jones |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
William Hawke |
Highway robbery |
7 men were
sentenced to hang at the July Sessions that opened on the 6th, 5 of the men
being reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Friday 19th August
|
Levi Barnet |
Housebreaking |
|
William Wayne |
Housebreaking |
16 men and 1
woman were condemned at the 7th of September Sessions, of whom 7 of the men
were to hang.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Monday 7th November
|
Charles Nagle |
Forgery |
|
William Hughes |
At large |
|
|
Charles Mills |
Highway robbery |
|
|
John Pugh |
Highway robbery |
|
|
William Griffiths |
Burglary |
|
|
John Holden |
Stealing in a dwelling house |
|
|
Abraham Abrahams |
Forgery |
The next
Sessions began on the 19th of October and resulted in 8 men and 1 woman being condemned.
2 of the men and the woman were reprieved.
|
Date |
Name |
Crime |
|
Wednesday 30th November
|
John Coleby |
Burglary |
|
Charles Jones |
Burglary |
|
|
William Lewis |
Forgery |
|
|
William Lane |
Highway robbery |
|
|
Samuel Trotman |
Highway robbery |
|
|
John Rann (16 string Jack) |
Highway robbery |
13 men were
sentenced to hang at the 7th of December Sessions, of whom 7 were
reprieved. The rest suffered on the 10th of January 1775.
Analysis
by year.
|
Year |
Men |
Women |
||
|
|
Sentenced to death |
Hanged |
Sentenced to death |
Executed |
|
1765 |
35 |
24 |
7 |
1 |
|
1766 |
31 |
18 |
4 |
2 |
|
1767 |
44 |
20 |
3 |
1 |
|
1768 |
51 |
18 |
7 |
3 |
|
1769 |
63 |
25 |
7 |
0 |
|
1770 |
83 |
44 |
7 |
1 |
|
1771 |
62 |
34 |
6 |
2 |
|
1772 |
88 |
32 |
4 |
0 |
|
1773 |
87 |
36 |
4 |
1 |
|
1774 |
86 |
31 |
7 |
1 |
|
Sub totals |
630 |
282 |
56 |
12 |
|
Total death sentences 686 |
Total executed 294 |
|||
|
|
(293 hanged and 1 burnt) |
|||
Analysis
of executions by crime.
|
Murder |
22 |
|
Murder bastard child |
2 |
|
P/T murder |
1 |
|
Highway robbery |
85 |
|
Housebreaking |
25 |
|
Burglary |
62 |
|
Horse theft |
3 |
|
Stealing in a dwelling house |
25 |
|
Rape |
3 |
|
H/T coining offences |
7 |
|
Arson |
0 |
|
Forgery |
25 |
|
Robbery in a dwelling house |
7 |
|
Uttering |
2 |
|
Stealing in a shop/warehouse |
3 |
|
At large |
5 |
|
Other (inc. shot at) |
17 |
|
Total |
294 |
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