| Bristol 1735 - 1799 | ||
| Although Bristol was included on the Western Assize Summer Circuit, | ||
| trials for capital offences took place at the Quarter Sessions. | ||
| At least 196 people received death sentences of which 57 were carried out. | ||
| Trial dates are not available. | ||
| Executions took place at Gallows Acre, at the top of St. Michael's Hill. | ||
| Name | Crime | Execution Date |
| Joshua Harding | Housebreaking | Friday, 3 September 1736 |
| John Vernon | Stealing from a shop | Friday, 3 September 1736 |
| Both of these revived after execution | ||
| Vernon died that same evening but Harding lived to be reprieved for transportation. | ||
| James Covey | Stealing from a warehouse | Friday, 15 April 1737 |
| James Freeman | Stealing from a dwelling house | Friday 28 September 1737 |
| Thomas Boon | Riot | Friday, 14 April 1738 |
| John Hobbs | H/T coining | Monday, 18 September 1738 |
| John Kimberley | Murder of James Burgess | Friday, 4 May 1739 |
| John Phillips | Housebreaking | Friday, 4 May 1739 |
| William Roe | Stealing from a shop | Friday, 19 September 1740 |
| Jane Williams | Murder of her bastard | Friday, 17 April 1741 |
| Samuel Goodere, | Murder of Sir John Dinely Goodere | Friday, 17 April 1741 |
| Matthew Maloney | on board his ship | Friday, 17 April 1741 |
| and Charles White | in the Port of Bristol | Friday, 17 April 1741 |
| William Curtis | At large | Thursday, 8 April 1742 |
| Sarah Barrett | Stealing from a dwelling house | Friday, 13 May 1743 |
| John Woods | Forgery | Monday, 6 June 1743 |
| John Barry | Forgery | Friday, 16 May 1746 |
| Matthew Daly | Murder of William Sullivan | Friday, 26 September 1746 |
| William Nicholas | Murder of Anne Logan | Friday, 22 April 1748 |
| Jeremiah Hays | Murder of Eleanor Dillar | Friday, 25 Aug 1749 |
| John Jones | Highway robbery | Friday 24 Apr 1752 |
| Nicholas Mooney | Highway robbery | Friday 24 Apr 1752 |
| William Cudmore | At large | Friday 24 Apr 1752 |
| William Critchett | Sodomy | Wed, 12 September 1753 |
| Richard Arnold | Sodomy | Wed, 12 September 1753 |
| William Price | Not known | Wednesday, 27 March 1754 |
| Elizabeth Hind | Highway robbery | Friday, 27 September 1754 |
| Thomas Larey | Highway robbery | Friday, 27 September 1754 |
| Catherine Gardner | Murder of her female bastard | Monday, 18 August 1755 |
| William Williams | Forgery | Friday, 3 October 1755 |
| John Hobbs | Murder of Nathanial Hobbs | Thursday, 24 August 1758 |
| John Price | Stealing from a shop | Friday, 8 September 1758 |
| William Saunders | Stealing on the river | Friday, 8 September 1758 |
| William Dilon Shepherd | Sodomy | Monday, 1 June 1761 |
| Patrick Ward | Murder of Henry Morgan | Tuesday, 20 October 1761 |
| After execution his body was hanged in chains at Broad Pitt near Kingsroad. | ||
| John Cope | At large | Friday, 6 November 1761 |
| James Rendall | Burglary in a dwelling house | Friday, 24 June 1763 |
| William Dawson | Robbery in a dwelling house | Monday, 16 April 1764 |
| Thomas Usher | Stealing in a dwelling house | Monday, 14 May 1764 |
| Robert Slack | Horse theft | Friday, 9 June 1769 |
| Jonathan Britain | Uttering forged Bill of Exchange | Friday, 15 May 1772 |
| Isaac Barrett | Highway robbery | Friday, 22 April 1774 |
| Daniel Haynes | Burglary in a dwelling house | Friday, 22 September 1775 |
| Thomas Crewys | Forged Bill of Exchange | Friday, 15 May 1778 |
| Benjamin Loveday | Sodomy | Friday, 12 October 1781 |
| John Burke | Sodomy | Friday, 12 October 1781 |
| William Morley | Uttering forged Bill of Exchange | Friday, 23 May 1783 |
| William Shutler | Burglary in a dwelling house | Friday, 23 May 1783 |
| John Collins | Murder of Rebecca Butler | Friday, 8 April 1785 |
| Ambrose Cooke | Highway robbery | Friday, 6 October 1786 |
| Edward Macnamara | Uttering forged Bill of Exchange | Friday, 7 May 1790 |
| William Hungerford | Stealing in a dwelling house | Friday, 9 July 1790 |
| Robert Hamilton | Stealing in a shop | Friday, 3 May 1793 |
| Benjamin Smith | Uttering a forged Promissory Note | Friday, 24 April 1795 |
| James Baber | Uttering a forged Promissory Note | Friday, 26 April 1799 |
| James Powell | Uttering a forged Promissory Note | Friday, 26 April 1799 |
| John Dugan | Uttering a forged Promissory Note | Friday, 26 April 1799 |