Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
Heads, strange discovery of, 51-2
Heiress—
stealing one made a felony, 209
case of Mary Wharton, 209-11
Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I., visit to Tyburn, 65, 66 and
_note_, 67, 182
print representing of no historical value, 67 _note_
Henry I., 17, 24, 56-7
Henry II., 24
Henry III.—
Attempt to assassinate, 30, 88, 89, 90
orders new gallows, 60 and _note_, 63
mentioned, 93-4
pardons woman who revives after hanging, 226-27 and _note_
Henry IV., 108, 109
Year Book of, 38
Henry VI., 112-15
pardons murderers of Duke of Gloucester after drawing and hanging,
116, 117
Henry VII., 119, 121, 122, 123, 141 _note_
Henry VIII., 77, 126, 132
divorces Catherine, 132
invests himself with supremacy of the Church, 133, 134
divorces Anne Boleyn, 136
procures dissolution of monasteries, 136
his order to kill man, woman, and child, 137
and Cardan, 142-43
his executions, 142-43, 146
and Catherine Howard, 150
Heretics—
Protestant, burnt under James I., 177
Heytesbury, a seat of the Hungerford family, 124, 125, 126
Highwaymen—
era of, 78
proclamations as to, 194-95
Hind and Hannum, 195
Duval, 195-98
rewards for capture of, 195
rob mail of £2,500, 195
Manchester carrier of £15,000, 195
mail of £5,000, 207
excellent account given by Macaulay, 198
The Golden Farmer, 211
Witney, James, 211-13
seven executed, 212
20 in Newgate (1693), 213
8 executed (1694), 213
“The Gentleman Highwayman,” 244
strange story of, 259
Highway robbery, an out-door sport, 258-59
Hinde, James, a noted highwayman, 194, 195
Hogarth, William—
representation of Tyburn gallows, 68, 72
print of Idle Apprentice, 241
“Blood-Bowl House,” 241
“Stages of Cruelty,” 245, 248
“Homors” of Canterbury Cathedral, corruption of “Ormeaux,” 58
Hope, A. J. B., on discovery of bones, 53
Hospitals seized, 140
Hounslow Heath, 151, 259
Howard, Catherine, 150
Howard, Frances—
Countess of Essex, 179
passion for Carr, 179
poisons Overbury, 179
procures divorce from Earl of Essex, 179-80
marries Carr, 180
pleads guilty to charge of murdering Overbury, 180
is condemned and pardoned, 180
her end, 180
Howell, James, quoted, 177, 181 _note_
Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, 80-1
Hue and Cry—
described by Bracton, 12
raised in a panic, 12
raised, 17
“Humeaux,” 60 _note_
And _see_ “The Elms”
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