Montague, Basil— law reformer, 78 founds Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge upon the Punishment of Death, 258 son of the Earl of Sandwich, 265 Carlyle on, 265 More, Sir Thomas— quoted on title page on punishment for theft, 79 and Elizabeth Barton, 133 on numbers hanged, 142 Mortimer, Edmund— invades the franchise of Montgomery, 18 Mortimer, Roger— said in error to be the first executed at Tyburn, 103 his indictment, 104 _note_ Mourning-coach— allowed to “gentlemen” on their way to Tyburn, 202 and _note_ first recorded case, 202 _note_ a seat in one refused to a foot-pad, 254 Mute, prisoners standing— to be treated as guilty, 42 to be taken to plead “not guilty,” 43 And _see_ Peine forte et dure Necromancy, a story of, 112-15 Newbury, hundred of, fifteen gallows in, 7 Newgate— heads set on, 104, 107 the “drop,” 257, 267 transfer of executions to, 267 capacity of new gallows, 268 20 men hanged at a time, 268 Norden, map of Middlesex, 65, 67 Norwich, riot at, 29, 30 Oates, Titus— and Tonge invent the Popish Plot, 199-200 pilloried, whipped, and imprisoned, 202 last appearance in pillory, 203 re-established as Protestant champion, 203-4 his services rewarded, 204 Ordeal of water, 83 and _note_ Orton, Henry, condemned to death, 160-61 Overbury, Sir Thomas— murder of, 178-79 a poet, 178 Ox-hide used for “drawing,” 28, 99 “The common,” 104 Paddington, gallows at, 15 Pardon Churchyard, burials in, 49-50 Parliament— petitions for execution of priests, 157, 184 conflict on subject of Oates, 203 and _note_, 204 petitions for execution of Pickering, 205 Paston Letters, 10 Peasants, revolt of, in 1381, 106; in 1549, 150 Peine forte et dure— judge-made, 36 successive stages of growth, 36-40 writers mistaken as to results of, 36, 41 originally severe imprisonment to make accused plead, 37, 38 Clitherow, Margaret, 39 Strangewayes, Major, 39, 40 Harrison on, 38, 39 became a punishment worse than hanging, 40 Stanford, Sir William, on, 41 and _note_ Spiggott’s case, 41, 229-30 Hawes’s case, 41, 230 abolished in 1772, 42 Thorely’s case, 42 Mercier’s case, 42 Chidley’s remonstrance, 187 Penal Laws, defended by Elizabeth’s Government, 164 _note_ Pepys, Samuel— sees head of Cromwell and others on Westminster Hall, 192 sees Lord Monson and Sir H. Mildmay being drawn to Tyburn, 193 Perreau, Robert and Daniel— and Mrs. Rudd, 260-61 Mr. Bleackley’s account of, 261 and Dr. Dodd, 262 Persecution, religious, considered a duty by the Reformers, 157-58 Peterborough, Abbat of, kills some of his monks, 138 _note_