Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
Philip, husband of Queen Mary, 154
“Piers Plowman” quoted, 130
Pike, Luke Owen, “History of Crime” quoted, 203 _note_
Pirates, numerous, where and how executed, 20 and _note_
Pits for burial at Tyburn, 51
Placita de Quo Waranto, 14, 15
Poaching affray, 148-49
Poisoning made high treason, 21-2
Act so making it repealed, 22
“Great Oyer of Poisoning,” 178-81
Poisons, administered to Overbury, 179
Pope—
advises Richard I., 81
Elizabeth’s quarrel with, 156-57
Bunyan describes his impotent railing, 156
Pope, Alexander—
his epitaph on Trumball, 216
“Tyburn’s elegiac lines,” 240 _note_
Pope, William, Memoirs of Du Val, 195-97
Popish Plot, 199-205
Sixteen persons executed for, 201
Population of England—
under Henry VIII., estimated at 5,000,000, 141
Prance, Miles, a perjurer, his punishment, 202-3
Preachers of new doctrines imported, 139-40, 142
Predatory Classes, civilisation has improved their opportunities of
plunder, 11, 12-13
Pretenders, adherents of, executed—
in 1715, 227
in 1718, 228
in 1746, 33
in 1753, 249
Pride, Thomas, 191
Princes Street, Hanover Square, gallows in, 42-3
Procession to Tyburn—
halts at St. Giles’s hospital, 4
great concourse, 145, 215, 243, 250, 261
Dr. Johnson on, 146, 267
not allowed to stop for drink, 243
grandest, 250
greatest known, 263
Dr. Dodd on, 263
Pym, John, his body removed, 192
Quartering, _see_ Treason
“Rageman,” statute so called, 14
Ray, Miss Martha—
murdered by Hackman, 263-64
mistress of Lord Sandwich, 264, 265
mother of Basil Montague, 265
Grub Street ballad on, 265
Rebellion—
of 1745, 33, 249
in Cornwall (1497) 121-22
in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (1536), 137; (1541), 149
in the West and Norfolk (1549), 150-51
in favour of Lady Jane Grey (1553), 151
Wyatt’s (1554), 151-52
in the North (1569), 155
Great, 185
Monmouth’s (1685), 206
Regicides, execution of, 190
Religious liberty not understood in the 16th century, 157-58
Reprieve, story of, 266
“Resources of civilisation,” 217-19
Revival after hanging, 221-27
John Smith, 221-23
Duel, 223-24
Chovet studies the question, 224
Gordon, 224
Reynolds, 224
two men at Bristol, 224
Patrick Redmond, 225
Anne Greene, 225-26
Margaret Dickenson, 226
Ivetta de Balsham, after hanging 12 hours, 226-27 and _note_
planned by Jack Sheppard, 233
of Dr. Dodd attempted, 263
Richard I.—
punishment ordered by, 19
his crusade, 79
imprisonment and ransom, 79-80
removes the justiciar, 81
Richard II., 106, 108, 109, 110
Richardson, Samuel, describes an execution at Tyburn, 50-1, 236-40
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