Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
Riley, Henry Thomas, quoted, 60 _note_
Riots—
in London in 1222, 84-6
in London in 1267, 95-7
in Norwich in 1271, 29-30
in London in 1668, 193-94
in Strand in 1749, 242-43
in Bethnal Green in 1769, 255
Rishton, Edward, condemned to death, 160-61
Robbery—
ancient forms of, crude and limited, 10, 13
modern improvement and extension, 10, 11
Rochester, Bishop of, attempt to poison, 21-2
Rocque, John, his maps, 68
Romilly, Samuel, law reformer, vi, 78, 257 _note_
Rose, Richard, boiled to death, 21, 22
Rotuli Hundredorum, 14, 15, 16
Royal Exchange, pillory at, 202, 203
Russell, Lord William,—
executed for Rye House Plot, 47, 206
and execution of Pickering, 205
Rye House Plot—
executions for, 205-6
and Elizabeth Gaunt, 206
Sadler, Thomas, steals Chancellor’s mace, 198-99
St. Alban’s—
Leofstan, Abbat of, _see_ Leofstan
highwaymen at, 211
St. George, Hanover Square—
map of Parish, 68
Dr. Dodd and the living of, 261
St. Giles-in-the-Fields—
“St. Giles’s bowl,” 4, 243
supposed site of royal gallows, 58-9, 58 _note_
Tangier tavern, lying in state of Claude Duval, 197
St. Hugh (Little) of Lincoln—
story of, 91-5
Chaucer’s “Prioress’s Tale,” 91
St. John of Jerusalem, Priory of, 49, 50
St. Margaret, Westminster, exhumed bodies buried in a pit, 192
St. Mary-le-Bow, occurrences at, 80-1, 97-8
St. Pancras (old church), Jonathan Wild buried at, 235
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 87
St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, 197
Saint Sepulchre’s—
burial in, refused, 50
burial in, 150
tolling of great bell established, 175-76
St. Thomas-a-Waterings—
gallows of, 61
executions at, 148, 180
Salisbury, a non-juring parson, forges to prejudice the Government, 220
Samson, Abbat of Bury St. Edmund’s, 137
Sandwich, Lord—
“protector” of Martha Ray, 264
invents the sandwich, 265
Saussure, César de—
quoted, iv
on benefit of clergy, 131
on peine forte et dure, 230 _note_
Savoy, custom of, 10
Scots, the first and last, on whom the full punishment for treason
inflicted, 33
Sessions—
at Newgate every 3 weeks in 1539, 142
at the Marshalsea every fortnight, 142
Shaftesbury, Earl of, directs the Popish Plot, 200-2
Shakespeare quoted, 64-5, 65 _note_, 116, 157, 170
Shard, Justice, strains the law, 28
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, poet, quoted, v
Sheppard, Jack—
a great prison-breaker, 230
story of his last escape, 231-33
re-captured and hanged, 233
life written by Defoe, 233
portrait by Thornhill, 233
inspired a sermon, 234
Shepperton, gallows at, 16
“Ship of Fools,” iv, 140 _note_
Shirley’s “Wedding” quoted, 67
Shoplifting Act, vi, 220, 246
denounced by Romilly, 220
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