Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
Coke, Lord Chief Justice—
on punishment for high treason, 32, 33 _note_
on torture, 36
busy in discovery of murder of Overbury, 181 _note_
Collier, Jeremy—
outlawed for absolving Friend and Perkins, 216
Common Prayer, Book of—
Commission to try those who reject, 158
death to write against, 177
Commonwealth, executions under, 77, 187-88
Cony—
refuses to pay illegal tax, 186
Cromwell imprisons him, 186
Cornelius, John, story of his head, 51-2
Cornishmen, revolt of, 121-22
Cotell, John, murdered by his wife, afterwards Lady Hungerford, 126-27
Courts—
multiplicity of, 16-19
conflicts between, 16-19
petty, in France, 57 _note_
Cranmer, Thomas—
pronounces divorce of Catherine, 132
of Anne Boleyn, 136-37
Crimes—
extraordinary accumulation of, 213
Criminal begged of the King by 18 maids, 208
Cromwell, Oliver—
bones found (?), 53
guilty of the blood of Southworth, 185
Why has he a statue? 185-86
his military despotism, 186, 187 and _note_
throws into prison Cony, and his counsel, 186
removes judge from bench, 186
greatest recorded number of executions at one time during
Commonwealth, 187-88
arrests 500 persons, 187 _note_
and Don Pantaleon Sa, 189
his last executions, 190
his body hanged on Tyburn gallows, 190-92
legends on this subject, 192
body of his mother and of others removed from Westminster Abbey, 192
his mother’s body removed, 192
Cromwell, Thomas, calls Tyburn “Thyfbourne,” 137
Cunningham, Peter, “Handbook of London,” 45, 46, 47, 64 _note_
Dangerfield, Thomas, perjurer—
pilloried and whipped, 202
killed by Francis, 202
Daniel, P. A., on references to Triple Tree, 64
David, Prince of Wales, execution of, 31
David II., of Scotland, 104
David III., of Wales, head exposed on Tower of London, 100
Death—
Penalty of, for relieving a priest, 166
for being reconciled to Roman Church, 165-66
“Decay of England,” 141 and _note_
Defoe, Daniel, 67
biographer of Jack Sheppard, 233
his grandson, 258
Derrick, a kind of crane, said to be named after a hangman, 45
Dickens, Charles—
against public executions, 4
Dennis, the hangman in Barnaby Rudge, 48
in Hungerford Street, 126
Hanging-Sword Alley, 242
Dictionary of National Biography, 44
Disembowelling, _see_ High Treason
Dissection—
enacted, to add terror to death-sentence, 247
of Earl Ferrers, 251
of Mrs. Brownrigg, 253-54
Dodd, Dr., 261-63
intercession of Dr. Johnson, 262
Dow, Master Robert, makes provision for tolling bell of St.
Sepulchre’s, 175-76
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