Bigamy— a bar to benefit of clergy, 127-29 old meaning of word, 129 provisions as to, 131-32 bigamist put on footing of others, 132 Black Death, 49 Blake, Admiral, his body removed, 192 Bleackley, Horace— tells story of the Perreaus, 261 of W. W. Ryland, 266 “Blood-Bowl House”— in Hanging-Sword Alley, 241 figures in print by Hogarth, 241 Boiling to death, _see_ Executions Boleyn, Anne, 132-33 Bones discovered at corner of Edgware Road, 53 Borough Customs, 19-20 Bosgrave, James, condemned to death, 160-61 Bow Church, 80-1, 97-8 Bowel-burning— remarkable case, 109 at Charing Cross, 190 And _see_ Treason Boy martyr— of Lincoln, 91-4 of Norwich, 91 Brabant, merchants of, robbed, 9-10 Bradshaw, John, his dead body hanged on Tyburn gallows, 190 Breaking on the wheel— not in use in England, 23-4 adoption recommended, 246 Bréauté, Fawkes de, hangs Constantine Fitz-Athulf 85-6 Brembre, Nicholas, his misdeeds and fate, 107 Brentford, gallows at, 15 Brinklow Henry, on rapacity of landlords, 139 Briton, Ralph— a priest, imprisoned on false accusation, 87 released, 87-8 Bronchotomy, 225, 252 Brownrigg, Mrs., her cruelty to apprentices, 253-54 Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 181 _note_ 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 Gilbert, 204, 207 Burning— in hand 130-31 in cheek enacted in 1699, repealed in 1706, 221 of women, 4, 105, 207, 230, 235-36, 257 Bury St. Edmund’s— boy-martyr of, 91 monastery of, 137 Butler, Samuel— mentions Dun, the hangman, 46 Ode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