Executions at Tyburn 1715 – 1724.

 

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, have a look at the Old Bailey on-line website at http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

 

751 death sentences were passed during the decade on 587 men and 164 women. Of these 327 men and 24 women were duly executed. Overall reprieve rate : 56.4 %. Male reprieves : 44.3 % Female reprieves : 85.37%.  A further 7 men were executed as a result of trial by the King’s Bench under the newly introduced Black Acts in 1723.

 

In some case the defendant’s age or approximate age was recorded at the Sessions and where they are juveniles (18 or under) this is recorded.

Where women pleaded pregnancy, which a very large number did, they were examined by a panel of matrons and if found to be “quick with child” they were respited until after they had given birth.  If not “quick” they could be hanged.  Most of those respited were in fact reprieved.

 

1715

There were 10 “hanging days” at Tyburn with 38 men and 7 women being executed.

64 men and 23 women were sentenced to death at the Old Bailey during the year.

 

The Sessions held on the 14th of January resulted in 5 men and a woman being sentenced to death of whom 4 men were reprieved. 

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

Wednesday 2nd February

George Hines (Hales)

Housebreaking

Ann Wright

Robbery in a dwelling house

 

The 23rd of February Sessions resulted in a further 3 men being sentenced to death, of whom 1 was hanged in June.

 

12 men and 6 women were sentenced to death at the 27th of April Sessions. 4 men and 5 women were subsequently reprieved.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

 

Wednesday 11th May

John Carbonel

Stealing in a dwelling house

John Borde

Stealing in a dwelling house

Joseph Barbamino

Stealing in a dwelling house

John Stone

Stealing in a dwelling house

Matthew Cornwall

Housebreaking

Samuel Awdry (or Awdrey)

Privately stealing from a person

Mary Skip

Highway robbery

Francis Martin (Cushaw)

Stealing from a wagon

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

Friday 20th May

Nathaniel Perkhurst

Murder

 

11 men and a woman were condemned at the Sessions that opened on the 2nd of June. Of these 6 men and the woman were reprieved.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

Wednesday 22nd June

Guy Guy (sentenced in February)

Housebreaking

James Johnson (Fishpond)

Housebreaking

John Irish

Housebreaking

John Edwards

Housebreaking

Richard Dunham

Housebreaking

Henry Cockale

Housebreaking

 

The Sessions on the 13th of July saw 5 men and 2 women get the death sentence of whom 4 of the men were reprieved.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

Wednesday 3rd August

Sarah Glass

Stealing in a shop

Edward Dalton

Highway robbery

Margaret Jones

Stealing in a dwelling house

 

The next Sessions began on the 7th of September and resulted in 6 men and 5 women being sentenced to death. 2 of the men and 4 of the women were reprieved (3 of the women were found to be pregnant.)

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

Wednesday 21st September

Ralph Walker

Stealing in a shop

Alexander Murray

Stealing in a dwelling house

Trolly Lolly (female)

Housebreaking

Joseph Pewterer

Housebreaking

John Smith

Housebreaking

 

14 men and 3 women were condemned at the 12th of October Sessions, of whom 4 men were reprieved and the women found to be pregnant.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

Friday 28th October

Joseph Sullivan

High treason

Robert Whitty

High treason

Felix Hara

High treason

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

Wednesday 2nd November

Benjamin Payne

Theft

John Fairborne

Housebreaking

Daniel Blunt

Privately stealing from a person

John Stapleton (Stevenson)

Housebreaking

Edward Shaw

Housebreaking

James Blunt (Bonner)

Housebreaking

John Evans

Housebreaking

 

3 men were convicted of High Treason by the King’s Bench on the 22nd of November and were drawn to Tyburn for execution on the 7th of December. These 3 were sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered although there is no confirmation that the disembowelling took place.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

Wednesday 7th December

John Dorrell

High treason

Captain John Gordon

High treason

Captain William Kerr

High treason

 

The December Sessions opened on the 7th and 8 men and 5 women received death sentences of whom 2 men and 3 women were reprieved. The women had all pleaded pregnancy and 3 were found to be “quick with child”.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

Wednesday 23rd December

Thomas Smith

Stealing in a work house

John Wright

Stealing in a dwelling house

Richard Bowcher

Housebreaking

Richard Bell (Brown)

Stealing in a shop

Henry Howard (Powell)

Highway robbery

Mary Still (Steel & Hull)

Housebreaking

Ann Body

Housebreaking

 

1716

89 men and 24 women were sentenced to death during this year and 53 men and 4 women hanged at Tyburn on 9 “hanging days”. A further 5 men were hanged in Fleet Street for riot.

 

The first Sessions of 1736 were held on the 13th January and resulted in 5 men and 2 women receiving death sentences. 1 of the men and one woman who was “quick with child ”were reprieved.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

Friday 27th January

Edward Smith (Allcock)

Stealing in a dwelling house

John Hope

Stealing in a shop

James Bullock

Housebreaking

Thomas Help

Housebreaking

Mary Knight

Privately stealing from a person

 

The next Sessions opened on the 22nd of February and resulted in 17 male and 2 female death sentences. 6 men and the 2 women who were both “quick with child ” were reprieved. 

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

Monday 12th March

Joseph Hutton

Privately stealing from a person

William Williams

Stealing from a warehouse

David Long

Highway robbery

William Jennings (age 12)

Housebreaking

Robert Haynes

Housebreaking

Thomas Hunter

Housebreaking

John Onion

Housebreaking

John Wilkinson

Housebreaking

John Hurrell

Housebreaking

James Goodman

Highway robbery

Jonathan Robinson (age 17)

Housebreaking

 

12 men and 1 woman were condemned at the April 11th Sessions of whom 4 men were reprieved, and the woman found “quick”.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

Wednesday 25th April

John Hamson

Stealing in a dwelling house

John Stevenson (Wilson)

Theft

William King (Tibbs) (age 18)

Housebreaking

Edward Spencer

Highway robbery

John Smith

Highway robbery

Ralph Walker (Parker)

Housebreaking

Thomas Pyman

Housebreaking

Thomas Smith (Fink) (age 16)

Housebreaking

 

The 17th of May Sessions resulted in 8 men and 2 women receiving death sentences of which those on 3 men and 1 woman were commuted. 

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

Friday 8th June

William Hankerson

Housebreaking

William White

Housebreaking

Thomas Thurland

Highway robbery

John Chapman

Highway robbery

Priscilla Spencer

Housebreaking

Samuel Ellis

Privately stealing from a person

 

Details of 5 male death sentences being passed at the Sessions on 4th of July remain although there were said to be 8 in total.  There no reprieves for the 5 named defendants.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

Monday 23rd July

George Morgan

At large

John Keen

At large

Timothy Dunn

Highway robbery

William Davis

Housebreaking

Luke Pritchard

Highway robbery

 

The September Sessions on the 6th saw 21 men and 12 women condemned of whom 7 men and 10 women were reprieved.  John Love, Thomas Bean, George Purchase, Richard Price and William Price were hanged on Friday the 21st of September at the end of Salisbury Court, Fleet Street for riot and are not included in the Tyburn figures.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 19th September 

Elizabeth Slate

Robbery in a brothel

Mary Williams

Stealing in a shop

John Lloyd (age 17)

Housebreaking

Robert Evans

Burglary

Jacob Leatherson

Burglary

Richard Griffiths

Murder

Thomas Allen

Housebreaking

William Deverill

Housebreaking

Thomas Jackson

Housebreaking

Richard Scott

Stealing in a shop

Richard Worrall (Thomas Green) (age 16)

2 unspecified capital crimes

 

7 men were sentenced to death at the October Sessions on the 10th of that month, with 4 reprieved. 

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

Monday 19th October

John Chance (Walker)

Housebreaking

Humphrey Clements

Housebreaking

William Beaufort

Horse theft

 

A further 14 men and 5 women were condemned at the 5th of December Sessions with 8 men and 3 women being reprieved.  2 women and a man were called to former judgement at these Sessions and the man’s sentence carried out.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

 

Wednesday 19th December

William Hartley

Cattle theft

William Parker

Housebreaking

William Thompson

Highway robbery

James Hudson

Highway robbery

Anthony Rogers

Highway robbery

Thomas Hurd

Housebreaking

John Moony

Sheep theft

William Dane

Burglary

Richard Brookes

Burglary

 

1717

96 men and 18 women were sentenced to death during this year. There were 7 actual “hanging days” at Tyburn this year with 44 men and 3 women hanged.  An 8th day had to be aborted see below.

 

3 women and 17 men received death sentences at the January Sessions on the 11th, of whom 2 women and 13 men were reprieved and the rest hanged on the 1st of February. All 3 women pleaded pregnancy although only one was found to be “quick with child”.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

Friday 1st February

Mary Pearse

Stealing in a shop

William Farendine

Housebreaking

Johnson Burdet

Murder

Thomas Winchurst

Murder

Thomas Whitehead

Privately stealing from a person

 

23 men and 5 women were sentenced to death at the 27th of February Sessions of whom one woman and 14 men were subsequently hanged. 4 women pleaded pregnancy and all were found to be “quick with child”.  Joseph Still was hanged on Friday the 22nd of March for murder at Stamford Hill and afterwards hanged in chains.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 20th March

John Keys

Highway robbery

Abel Ball

Privately stealing from a person

William Stone

Housebreaking

Richard Chapman

Housebreaking

John Tomkins

Murder

John White

Burglary

Elizabeth Browne

Privately stealing from a person

Samuel Sherman

Stealing in a dwelling house

Arnold Powel

Housebreaking

Edward Elton (age 16)

Housebreaking

William Clark

Housebreaking

John Sweetbone

Highway robbery & murder

Matthew Adcock

Housebreaking

John Brush

Housebreaking

John Giles

Stealing in a shop

 

13 men and 2 women were sentenced to death at the 1st of May Sessions with one women and 5 of the men being reprieved. Both women pleaded pregnancy but were found not be “quick”.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

 

Monday 20th May

Martha Pillow (age 18)

Stealing in a shop

William Wells

Housebreaking

Thomas Price (age 17)

Housebreaking

Joseph Cornbach(age 18)

Housebreaking

Francis Williams

Highway robbery

Matthew Chester

Burglary

Christopher Ward (age 17)

Burglary

John Lemon

Burglary

 

1 women and 7 men were condemned at the 6th of June Sessions with 1 man and the woman who was found to be pregnant being reprieved.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

Wednesday 26th June

Samuel Freeman (John Dean)

Burglary

Gregory King

Burglary

John Jones

Highway robbery & h/breaking

Roger Moor

Housebreaking

George Morrice

Housebreaking

Henry Sewell

Housebreaking

 

2 men and 2 women were condemned at the 17th of July Sessions of whom the women were later reprieved.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

Monday 29th July

John Mather

Robbery in a dwelling house

James Owen

Assault and robbery

 

14 men and 1 woman were sentenced to death at the 11th of September Sessions of whom 8 men and the woman were reprieved.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

Wednesday 2nd October

George Hutchinson

Stealing in a dwelling house

John Mash

Highway robbery

Charles Powel

Theft

John Dickenson

Highway robbery

William Rose

Burglary

William Smith

Housebreaking

 

11 men and 2 women were condemned at the October Sessions on the 16th of that month of whom 8 men and the women were reprieved (both being found “quick with child).  The 3 men not reprieved were taken to Tyburn on Wednesday the 6th of November.  Passing along Holborn William Marvell the hangman was arrested and so at Tyburn the Under Sheriff asked for a volunteer from the crowd. One man volunteered but was set upon by the spectators.  In the end all 3 men had their sentences commuted.

 

The Sessions held on the 4th December resulted in 9 men and 2 women receiving death sentences. 4 men and the 2 women who were both “quick” being reprieved.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

 

 

Friday 20th December

Thomas Bingley

Highway robbery

Joseph Sherrier

Highway robbery

Edward Mott (Popham)

Highway robbery

James Dickenson

Housebreaking

Peter Monstieurs

Murder

 

1718

 

There were 5 “hanging days” at Tyburn in 1718 with 19 men and 4 women being executed. 61 men and 21 women were condemned during this year.

 

The first Sessions of the of 1718 were held on the 10th of January resulting in 6 men and 5 women being condemned of whom all the women and 3 of the men were reprieved.

 

Date of execution

Name

Crime

Monday 27th January

Henry Chickley

Highway robbery

John Stone

H/T Coining

 

7 men and 5 women were sentenced to hang at the February Sessions on the 27th with 3 men and 4 women being later reprieved. All the women had pleaded pregnancy although only 3 were found to be.  James Shepard was condemned by the King’s Bench and would have been drawn to Tyburn.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Monday 17th March

 

Mary Lovelock

Housebreaking

Marquis Ferdinando Paleotti

Murder of his servant

Thomas Miller

Highway robbery

Charles Lodge (age 17)

Housebreaking

John Gill (age 16)

Burglary

James Shepard (age 17)

High treason

 

The April Sessions opened on the 23rd and led to 22 death sentences on 15 men and 7 women. 10 men and all of the women were reprieved.  John Price (the former hangman) was hanged on Saturday the 31st of May at Bunhill Fields for murder.  He was afterwards hanged in chains at Stonebridge.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Tuesday 27th May

 

William Culedin (Callendine)

Housebreaking

George Veal (Widgeon)

Housebreaking

William Haynes

Housebreaking

John Varney

Housebreaking

 

4 men were condemned at the 30th of May Sessions but were all reprieved.

 

3 men and 2 women were sentenced to death at the 9th of July Sessions, with 1 man being reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Wednesday 6th August

 

Mary Price

Murder

George Chambers

Housebreaking

Elizabeth Cave

Privately stealing from a person

 

13 men were condemned at the September Sessions which opened on the 10th,  9 of them being subsequently reprieved or receiving conditional pardons.

 

8 men and 1 woman were condemned at the 15th of October Sessions of whom 2 men were reprieved and 3 received conditional pardons. 

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

 

Friday 31st October

James Violet (Filewood)

Privately stealing from a person

John Brown

Housebreaking

Samuel Cole

Housebreaking (shop)

Henry Abbot

Burglary

George Brown

Stealing from a coach

John Multus (Colehurst)

Highway robbery

Sarah Brown (Giles)

Murder

William Awdley

Murder

 

The final Sessions of 1718 took place on the 5th of December with 3 men and a woman being sentenced to die, of whom 1 man was reprieved and the woman was found “quick” with child.  The other 2 men were hanged in February 1719.

 

1719

 

There were 6 “hanging days” at Tyburn this year with 25 men and no women being hanged. One other man may have been hanged for High Treason.  52 men and 18 women were condemned during this year.

 

12 men and 3 women received death sentences at 15th of January Sessions, of which 5 of the men’s and all of the women’s were commuted to conditional pardons. 

 

Date

Name

Crime

Friday 13th February
(sentenced in 1718)

Richard Spackman

Highway robbery

Ralph Emmery

Murder

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Friday 13th February
(sentenced in 1719)

Thomas Cinnamon (Mason)

Stealing in a dwelling house

Francis Parquet

Highway robbery

John Prior

Highway robbery

Robert Vickars

Highway robbery

William Ward

Housebreaking

Samuel Linne

Housebreaking Murder

 

Date

Name

Crime

Monday 23rd February

Edward Bird

Murder

 

10 men and 2 women were condemned at the February Sessions on the 25th of that month of whom 5 men and the women were reprieved.  One man, John Filewood, presumably escaped but was recaptured and was hanged in April 1721 for being at large.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Monday 23rd March

 

Christopher Bannister

Highway robbery

Thomas Draper

Housebreaking (shop)

Samuel Davis

Housebreaking (shop)

Isaac Smith

Murder of wife

 

4 men and a woman received death sentences at the April Sessions on the 8th of that month, with one man being subsequently hanged.

 

7 men and 3 women were condemned at the 14th of May Sessions with 2 men and all of the women being reprieved.  The women had all pleaded pregnancy although only 2 were found to be “quick”.

 

Date

Name

Crime

Monday 25th May

John Wheeler

Housebreaking

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Monday 8th June

 

Abraham Wood

Highway robbery

Henry Brown (Broom)

Burglary

Stephen Margrove

Highway robbery

John Wood

Highway robbery

Richard Williams

Robbery in a dwelling house

 

6 men and 4 women were sentenced to death at the July Sessions on the 8th.  3 men and the women were subsequently reprieved.  All the women pleaded pregnancy, with 3 being found “quick” and the 4th dying in Newgate.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Wednesday 22nd July

William (John) Johnson

Housebreaking

Charles Hurst

Housebreaking

William Hale

Stealing in a shop

 

The 3rd of September Sessions resulted in 2 men and 3 women being condemned. The women were all found to be pregnant.  It is probable that the men were reprieved as there is no record of their execution.

 

The 14th of October Sessions resulted in death sentences on 5 men and 2 women.  3 of the men and the 2 women were reprieved. John Matthews was hanged with these 2, having been convicted by the King’s Bench.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Friday 6th November

John Moor (Murray)

Stealing in a dwelling house

John Constable

Highway robbery

John Matthews (age 19)

H/T - publishing sedition

 

5 men were condemned at the December Sessions of whom only 1 was reprieved and the other held over for execution until February 1720.

 

1720

 

There were 6 “hanging days” at Tyburn in this year with 33 men and 3 women being executed.  44 men and 20 women were condemned during 1720. 

 

The January Sessions on the 15th of that month resulted in 5 men and 6 women receiving death sentences.  All but 1 woman was reprieved. All the women had pleaded pregnancy although only 1 was found to be so.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Wednesday 29th January
(sentenced in 1719)

 

Thomas Charnock

Stealing in a dwelling house

Richard Shepherd

Housebreaking

John Trippuck

Highway robbery

Roger Cane

Highway robbery

 

Date

Name

Crime

Wednesday 29th January
(sentenced in 1720)

Jane Griffin

Murder

 

9 men and 2 women were condemned at the 2nd of March Sessions.  4 men and the women were later reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Wednesday 13th April

Joseph Smith

Housebreaking

Godfrey Meakins

Highway robbery

Thomas Bishop

Privately stealing from a person

Samuel Snow

Highway robbery

Richard England

Highway robbery

James Shepherd

Highway robbery

 

8 men and 1 woman were sentenced to death at the April Sessions on the 27th, with 1 man being reprieved and the woman dying in prison.

 

2 men and a woman were condemned at the 2nd of June Sessions, of whom only 1 man was to hang. 

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

 

Monday 27th June

George Davis (Green)

Stealing in a dwelling house

John Kein

Murder of wife

John Ridge

Horse theft

William Jones (John Campbell)

Highway robbery

William Page

Horse theft

Lewis Vain

Horse theft

Lawrence Flower

Horse theft

John Lewis

Highway robbery

 

3 men and 3 women were condemned at the 13th of July Sessions, of whom all 3 women were reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Monday 15th August

Matthew Tompkins

Highway robbery

Morris Fitzgerald

Murder

David Lazenby

Housebreaking

 

9 men and a woman were sentenced to death at the September Sessions on the 7th of that month.  1 man and the woman were reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

 

Monday 19th September

James Wilson

Highway robbery

John Homer

Highway robbery

James Halliday

At large

James Norris

Stealing in a dwelling house

Robert Jackson

Highway robbery

John Tomlinson

Highway robbery

Anthony Goddard

At large

 

5 men and 4 women were condemned at the 12th of October Sessions, with 1 woman being reprieved and 1 found to be pregnant.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

 

Wednesday 26th October

 

William Fletcher

Highway robbery

Mary Granger

Privately stealing from a person

Martha Purdue

Privately stealing from a person

William Withall

Housebreaking

Richard Cecil

Housebreaking

John Harris

Housebreaking

Stephen Delforce

At large

 

3 men and 2 women received death sentences at the December 7th Sessions. 1 of the men and the women were reprieved with the other 2 men hanging in February of 1721.  Both women were found to be pregnant.

 

1721

 

There were 8 “hanging days” at Tyburn in 1721 with 35 men and 2 women being hanged and 1 woman burned.  49 men and 22 women were condemned during this year.  A new Act of Parliament was brought in this year for “the more effectual Transporting of Felons, &c.”, hence the sudden rise in the number of executions for being at large.

 

7 men were condemned at the January Sessions on the 13th of that month with 2 reprieves.

 

Date

Name

Crime

Wednesday 8th February

(sentenced in 1720)

Edward Ely

Murder

Othrinton Wrathan

Stealing in a warehouse

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Wednesday 8th February

(sentenced in 1721)

William Bond

At large

Thomas Knight

Stealing in a shop

Thomas Butler (Beckett)

Highway robbery

William Spigot

Highway robbery

Thomas Phillips (Cross)

Highway robbery

 

11 men and 6 women were given death sentences at the March Sessions on the 1st of that month.  5 of the men and all of the women being reprieved. 5 of the women had been found to be pregnant.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Monday 3rd April

John Cobidge

Highway robbery

John Filewood (Violet) std Feb 1719

At large

Henry Davis (Woodford)

At large

Charles Hinchman

At large

Samuel Whittle

At large

Martin Gray

At large

The 5 men convicted of being at large had all returned from sentences of transportation before their due time.

 

3 men and 3 women were condemned at the April Sessions on the 19th.  2 men and 2 women were reprieved. The other woman was found to be pregnant.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Friday 12th May

John Thompson

Taking reward for stolen goods without evidence of theft

William Barton

Highway robbery

 

4 men and 4 women were condemned at the May Sessions on the 25th.  2 men and 3 women were reprieved. 23 year old Barbara Spencer was burned at the stake.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Wednesday 5th July

 

Thomas Rogers (Cane)

Privately stealing from a person

Robert Godfrey (Perkins)

At large

Jane Worsley

Highway robbery

Barbara Spencer (Dawling)

H/T coining

 

7 men and 5 women were sentenced to death at the July Sessions on the 12th, with 2 men and 4 women being reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Friday 28th July

 

William Gosling

Stealing in a dwelling house

John Winship

Highway robbery

Mary Inman

Murder of bastard child

Matthew Clarke

Murder

Robert Hunter

Stealing in a dwelling house

George Post

Stealing in a dwelling house

 

4 men were condemned at the 30th of August Sessions of whom all were hanged.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

11th September

James Reading

Highway robbery

John Wigley

Highway robbery

William Casey

Highway robbery

John Merth (Meff) std Oct. 1719

At large

 

5 men and a woman were condemned at the October Sessions on the 11th, only the woman was reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Monday 23rd October

John Trantum

Housebreaking

John James

Highway robbery

William Courtney

Housebreaking

John Dikes

Highway robbery

Phillip Storey

Housebreaking

 

8 men and 3 women received death sentences at the 6th of December Sessions. 3 men and the women were reprieved.  The other man was respited until January 1722.  It is not known whether he was subsequently hanged.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Friday 22nd December

 

John Jones

Highway robbery

Nathaniel Haws

Highway robbery

George Baker

At large

James Wright

Highway robbery

 

1722

 

There were 8 “hanging days” at Tyburn in this year with 41 men and no women executed.  62 men and 8 women were condemned during this year. 

 

5 men were sentenced to death at the 12th January Sessions of whom just 1 man was reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Thursday 8th February

John Burgess

Burglary

William Colthouse

Highway robbery

James Shaw

Highway robbery

John Smith

Murder

 

13 men received death sentences at the 28th of February Sessions, with 7 being reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Wednesday 14th March

 

Reynolds Winter

Stealing in a shop

John James (Eaton) (Age 18)

Highway robbery

Thomas Pickett (Age 18)

Highway robbery

James Appleby (Appleton)

Housebreaking

John Roberts (Lee)

Highway robbery

William Burridge (Berridge)

Horse theft

 

7 men and 2 women were condemned  at the 4th of April Sessions of whom 3 men and 2 women received conditional pardons and were thus reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Wednesday 4th May

James Tims

Highway robbery

John Thompson

Highway robbery

Thomas Reaves

Highway robbery

John Hartley

Highway robbery

 

8 men and 1 woman received death sentences at the 10th of May Sessions, with 2 men and the woman being reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Monday 21st May

James Booty (Age 15)

Rape of 5 year old girl

Jeremy Rand

Highway robbery

Thomas Smith

Housebreaking

John Hawkins

Highway robbery

George Simpson

Highway robbery

Richard Whittingham

Highway robbery

 

7 men were sentenced to hang at the 4th of July Sessions, with 2 men receiving conditional pardons and thus being reprieved. 

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Wednesday 18th July

 

Thomas Rice

Stealing in a shop

John Maloney

Highway robbery

James Carrick

Highway robbery

Thomas Butlock

Stealing in a dwelling house

Nathaniel Jackson

Highway robbery

 

15 men and 3 women were condemned at the 7th September Sessions.  Of these 3 men and 2 women were reprieved. Ann Morris who had been convicted of the murder of her bastard, died in Newgate on the 16th of September.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 24th September

Richard Oxer (Oxly)

Housebreaking

Matthias Brinsden

Murder of wife

William Sladden

At large

Benjamin Shambler

Receiving forged notes

Thomas Milksop

Highway robbery

Arthur Hughes

Highway robbery

John Casey (Age 18)

Highway robbery

Thomas Wilson

Highway robbery

Robert Wilkinson

Highway robbery & murder

James Lincoln

Highway robbery

Charles Palmer

Highway robbery

Edward Mires (Miles)

At large

 

4 men were condemned at the 10th October Sessions of whom 2 were reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

Friday 9th November

William Marr

Highway robbery

John Quin

Highway robbery

 

2 women and 3 men were condemned at the December Sessions on the 5th. 1 man and 1 woman were definitely reprieved and there is no record of the other woman being hanged. 

 

Date

Name

Crime

Monday 31st December

Edmund Neal

Highway robbery

William Pincher

Highway robbery

 

1723

 

There were 9 “hanging days” at Tyburn with 19 men being hanged.  31 men and 4 women were condemned during this year. 

 

5 men and 2 women were condemned at the January Sessions on the 16th of that month, of whom 1 man and the women were reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Friday 8th February

Charles Weaver

Murder

Richard Oakey

Highway robbery

John Levee (Junks)

Highway robbery

Matthew Flood

Highway robbery

 

3 men were condemned at the February Sessions on the 27th of that month, with 2 being later reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

Monday 8th April

William Burk

Highway robbery

 

The next Sessions opened on Wednesday the 24th of April with 2 men and 1 woman being condemned.  The woman was reprieved.  Christopher Layer was sentenced by the King’s Bench.  He was quartered and his head placed upon Temple Bar.

 

Date

Name

Crime

Friday 17th May

Christopher Layer

High treason

 

Date

Name

Crime

Saturday 25th of May

Richard Trantham

Burglary

Luke Nunny

Murder

 

6 men were condemned at the May Sessions on the 30th, although there are only names for 4 of these.  2 were subsequently reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

Monday 17th June

William Hawksworth

Murder

John Tyrrel

Horse theft

 

3 men were condemned at the 10th July Sessions although there are only names for 2 of these and they were not reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

Monday 5th August

William Duce

Highway robbery

James Butler

Highway robbery

 

5 men received death sentences at the 28th of August Sessions of whom 2 were to hang.

 

Date

Name

Crime

Monday 9th September

Humphrey Anger

Highway robbery

Joseph Middleton

Housebreaking

 

4 men were sentenced to hang at the October Sessions on the 16th, with only 1 being subsequently reprieved. 

 

Date

Name

Crime

Wednesday 6th November

Richard Whiteing

Stealing in a dwelling house

James Mackey

Stealing in a dwelling house

James White

Stealing in a dwelling house

 

7 men were tried at the King’s Bench Session which opened on the 13th of November.

Date

Name

Crime

Wednesday 4th December

Henry Marshall

Going armed and blacked and killing deer.
First London executions under the Black Act.

Edward Elliott

Robert Kingshell

James Ansell

John Pink

Edward Pink

Richard Parvin

 

3 men and 1 woman received death sentences at the Sessions on the 4th of December, of whom only the woman was reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Monday 23rd December

John Stanley

Murder

John Harrington

Highway robbery

Thomas Saunders

Stealing in a dwelling house

 

1724

 

There were 7 “hanging days” at Tyburn in this year with 20 men and no women executed.  39 men and 6 women were condemned during the year. 

 

5 men were sentenced to death at the 17th January Sessions of whom 3 were reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

Monday 3rd February

Stephen Gardiner

Housebreaking

John Allen

Highway robbery

 

5 men and a woman received death sentences at the 26th of February Sessions, with 2 men being reprieved. Mary Morgan who had been convicted of murder died in Newgate.

 

5 men were condemned  at the 15th of April Sessions of whom 2 were reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Wednesday 29th April

 

William Witherington

Privately stealing from a person

Thomas Williams

Burglary

Frederick Schmidt

Forgery

Thomas Burden

Robbery in a dwelling house

Edward Joyce

Highway robbery

 

3 men and 1 woman received death sentences at the 21st of May Sessions, with 1 man and the woman being reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

Monday 15th June

Peter Curtis

Housebreaking

William Parkinson

Highway robbery

 

5 men and 2 women were sentenced to hang at the 8th of July Sessions. The 2 women were found to be “quick with child”, thus being reprieved. 

 

5 men and a woman were condemned at the 11th of August Sessions of whom 2 men and the woman were reprieved.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

 

Friday 28th August

 

John Merry (Reynolds)

Fraud

Anthony Walraven

Forgery

John (James) Harman

Highway robbery

John Davis (Thomas Lumley)

Highway robbery

John Horn

Highway robbery

 

Date

Name

Crime

Friday 4th September

Anthony Upton

Burglary

Joseph Ward

Highway robbery

 

7 men and a woman were condemned at the 14th October Sessions of whom 2 men and the woman were reprieved.  Lewis Houssart was convicted of the murder of his wife but was not sentenced until the 30th of November.  He was hanged at Swann Alley, Shoreditch on Monday the 7th of December.

 

Date

Name

Crime

 

Wednesday 11th November

Julian (a negro lad age about 16)

Stealing in a dwelling house & arson

Joseph Blake (“Blueskin”)

Burglary

Abraham Deval

Forgery

 

Date

Name

Crime

Monday 16th November

John Sheppard

Burglary

 

4 men were condemned at the December Sessions on the 4th. 2 were reprieved and the other 2 hanged in 1725.  Charles Towers was hanged near the New Mint in Wapping Wall on the 4th of January 1725 and William Anderson was executed at Tyburn on the 5th of January 1725.

 

Analysis by year.

Year

Men

Women

 

Sentenced to death

Hanged

Sentenced to death

Hanged

Burnt

1715

64

38

23

7

0

1716

89

53

24

4

0

1717

96

44

18

3

0

1718

61

19

21

4

0

1719

52

25

18

0

0

1720

44

33

20

3

0

1721

49

35

22

2

1

1722

62

41

8

0

0

1723

31

19

4

0

0

1724

39

20

6

0

0

Totals

587

327

164

23

1

 

Analysis by crime.

Murder

24

Murder bastard child

1

P/T murder

0

Highway robbery

104

Housebreaking

89

Burglary

21

Horse theft

12

Sheep theft

2

Stealing in a dwelling house

25

Rape/sodomy

1

H/T and H/T coining offences

11

Arson

0

Forgery

3

Robbery in a dwelling house

6

Privately stealing from a person

15

Stealing in a shop/warehouse

15

At large

16

Riot

0

Other crimes

6

Total executed

351

 

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