20, 224 _note_ 25 Geo. II. (1752), c. 37, 247, 250 12 Geo. III. (1772), c. 20, 42 26 Geo. III. (1786), c. 49, 78 7 & 8 Geo. IV. (1827), c. 27, vi 7 & 8 Geo. IV. (1827), c. 28, 43, 131 5 Edw. VII. (1905), c. 13, 147 Acts suspending habeas corpus cited generally, 219 _See also under_ Æthelstan, Alfred, Henry I., Ina, William the Conqueror. Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames, opinion that we have gone too far in abolishing the penalty of death, 6 quoted, 12, 18, 36, 57, 129, 227 Stirling Castle, siege of, 99-100 Story, Dr. John— a bitter persecutor, 157 his execution memorable, 157 triangular gallows first used for, 157 his career, 159 kidnapped, 159 executed, 159 Stow, John, burial of executed persons, 49-50 Strangeways, Major, manner of his death, 39-40 Stumphius, an imported preacher, 142 Strype, John, historian, quoted, 51-2, 69 and _note_, 158 _note_ Surgeons and bodies of executed criminals, 239, 243, 244, 248-49, 249 Surgeons’ Hall, 223, 248 Hogarth’s “Stages of Cruelty,” 245 bodies of murderers to be given to, 247, 248-49 body of Earl Ferrers in, 250, 251 body of Mrs. Brownrigg, 253-54 Swift, Jonathan— on “Blueskin,” 234 _note_ on “Clever Tom Clinch,” 240 Tarlton, Richard— his “Jests,” 45, 64 _note_ his “Newes out of Purgatorie,” 64 Teddington, gallows at, 15 Temple Bar, heads exposed on, 33 Thieves and robbers pursued without mercy, 13 Thistlewood and four others, manner of execution, 33, 34 Throckmorton, Francis, alleged treason of, 163-64 and _note_ Thumbs, tying together, 42 Tilford, the oak of, 15 _note_ “Time is money,” 54 Tonge, Dr. Ezrael, 199 Topcliffe, Richard, the English Torquemada, 169 Torture— illegal, but practised, 35, 36 Hallam on use of, 35 use of, denied by Sir Thomas Smith, who practised it, 35 use of, defended by Lord Burghley, 35-6, 161-62, 162-63 and _note_ use of, defended by Sir R. Wiseman, 36 _note_ Jardine on, 36 _note_ last recorded case, 36 _note_ of Edmund Campion, 161-62 of Alexander Brian, 161-62 the Government’s defence of, 161-62 of Francis Throckmorton, 164 _note_ of Southwell, 169 used in ordinary cases, 169-70 Tower of London, place for exposing heads, 100 Townley, Francis, manner of execution, 33 “Trailbaston,” inquisition so called, 16 Travellers, murder of, 9 Treason, high— defined by Statute, 30-1 punishment of, 31-4 form of sentence, 31 later form, 31 last execution for, 33-4 Treason, petty, 28, 104, 105, 129 Treasury of king at Westminster robbed, 11, 24-5 Turberville, Sir Thomas de— drawn to gallows on an ox-hide, 28 _note_, 99 execution of, 31 _note_, 98, 99