Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
Leofstan, Abbat, founds Wardenship of Chiltern Hundreds, 8-9
Limbs, lopping off of, 56, 86
Lincoln—
Jews of, accused of murder of boy, 91-5
18 hanged, 94
Cathedral and Little St. Hugh, 93
Lingard, Dr. John, historian, quoted, 168, 171 _note_
Lipsius, Justus, his “De Cruce,” v, 62
Llewellyn, brother of David III., head exposed on Tower of London, 100
Loftie, W. J., quoted, 62
Lombards, attack on, 116
London to be called “Little Troy,” 107
London Bridge, first heads exposed on, 100-1
Lopez Roderigo—
accused of designing to poison Elizabeth, 167-68
probably innocent, but executed, 168
Lorrain, Paul—
Ordinary of Newgate, 67
his loyalty, 227
his broadsheets, 228
his “saints,” 228
account of last scene, 240-41
Lundy Island, William Marsh establishes himself as a pirate there, 88-9
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, historian—
gives excellent account of highwaymen, 198
on Elizabeth Gaunt, 207
on Jeremy Collier, 216
on Major Bernardi, 216
on habeas corpus, 218-19
Machiavelli, Niccolò, his “Prince” quoted, 157
Machyn, Henry, value of his Diary, 151
Maclean, James—
“The Gentleman Highwayman,” 244-45
robs Horace Walpole, 244-45
not a free-thinker, 245
his skeleton in Surgeons’ Hall, 245
Magna Carta—
a conception of the thirteenth century, 218
derided by Cromwell, 218
the basis of habeas corpus, 218
Mails robbed, 195, 207
Manacles, a form of torture, 170
Mandeville, Bernard de, 78
describes an execution at Tyburn, 240
on supply of bodies for dissection, 248-49
Maps of London and of Middlesex, 65-8
Marble Arch—
gallows did not stand here, 61
improvements, 70
Marteilhe, Jean, 63
Martyrdom, held to atone for errors of persecutors, 158-59
Mary, Queen, 77, 151, 159, 177
Wyatt’s Rebellion, 151-52
conspiracy to rob Exchequer, 153-55
Menteith, Earl of, 104
Mercenaries, Foreign, 140 and _note_, 141
Meredith, Sir William—
law reformer, 78
on case of Mary Jones and another, 257-58
Middlesex County Records, 76
Mildmay, Sir Henry, drawn to Tyburn on a sledge, 192-93
Milksop, John, a thief, strange case of, 17
Milton, “Comus” quoted, 178
Minorite Friars—
plead for imprisoned Jews, 94-5
lose favour thereby, 95
Misson, Henri—
“Mémoires” quoted, 202 _note_
Monasteries—
Dissolution of, 136
results of, 137-43
destroys yeomanry, 139
Monks—
power to release thieves, 13-14
good landlords, 138, 139, 142
maintained the poor, 141
Monmouth, Duke of—
execution, 47
rebellion of, 206
Monson, Lord, drawn to Tyburn on a sledge, 192-93
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