Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
Hungerford, Lady Alice (Agnes)—
murders her first husband, John Cotell, 124, 126-27
hanged at Tyburn, 124
buried in Grey Friars Church, 125
second wife of Sir Edward Hungerford, 125
inherits all his goods, 126
indicted in Somerset, 126
trial removed to Westminster, 127
sentenced to be hanged, 127
Hungerford, Sir Thomas, 124
Sir Edward, 125, 126, 128, 129
Hungerford—
House, 125
Market, 125
Stairs, 125
Bridge, 126
Street, 126
Hurdle—
mitigates punishment of drawing, vi
first mention of, 29 and _note_
“hurdle” and “sledge,” words used indifferently, 29 _note_, 192
Hyde Park Corner, gallows erected at, 152
Ickneild Street, 17
Ina, Law of, 7
Ireton, Henry, body hanged at Tyburn, 190
Isabella, wife of Edward II., 101
Iveney, gallows at, 16
James I., 176
executions in reign of, 76
his “favourites,” 178, 181 _note_
correct attitude towards the “Bishop of Rome,” 178
gross immorality of his Court, 178
Was he an accomplice in the murder of Overbury? 181
or guilty of the death of Prince Henry? 181
Jardine, David, on torture, 36 _note_
Jeaffreson, John Cordy, “Middlesex County Records,” 76-7
Jeffreys, Lord Chancellor, 106
Jews accused of murder of boy at Lincoln, 91-5
eighteen hanged, 94
280 hanged in London and a multitude elsewhere, 97
lend money on relics, 138 and _note_
Johnson, Dr. Samuel—
on procession to Tyburn, 146
on Bernardi’s imprisonment, 217
and Dr. Dodd, 262
on murder of Miss Ray, 264-65
Johnson, Samuel (Rector of Corringham)—
writes against the Duke of York, 208
and the Government, 208
sentenced to be whipped to Tyburn, 208
degraded, 209
sentence annulled, 209
“John the Painter” hanged on gallows 60 feet high, 257
Jones, Mary—
her piteous story, 255-58
Sir W. Meredith on, 257-58
Judges, ferocity of, 28, 36, 40, 42, 166, 207
Judicial error, terrible in 1386, 105
“Juges sous l’orme,” 57
Jura regalia, 7
of the Most High, 248
Kennington Common—
execution on, 33, 48
gibbets on, (illustration)
Ketch, Jack, 207
a famous hangman, 46-7
beheads Lord William Russell and Duke of Monmouth, 47
his name becomes generic, 47
For other hangmen _see_ under Hangman
Knightsbridge, gallows at, 15
Laleham, gallows at, 16
Landlords, rapacity of, 139
Latimer, Hugh—
his father a typical yeoman, 138-39
his sermons quoted, 138-39, 141-42
on frequency of executions, 141-42
jests at the burning of Friar Forest, 158 and _note_
on commission to try heretics, 158
jeers at burning of Anabaptists, 158
Law-French, an exquisite jargon, 33 _note_
Lawyers, the object of resentment, 19
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