Turner, Mrs., inventress of “yellow starch,” 181 _note_ Tyburn Gallows— probable number of persons executed at, 3, 75-8 methods of execution, 3, 4 superstition, 48 slang expressions, 48 burials from, 49-53 site of, 54-70 gallows, when first set up, not before Conquest, 54 probably about 1108, 56-7 first known as “The Elms,” 57 no evidence of supposed changes of site of royal gallows, 58, 60-1 Earl of Oxford has gallows here, 59 gallows in constant use, 61 permanent, 61 movable, 61, 69-70 why so far from city, 61-3 and gibbets, 62 original form of gallows, 63 triangular, 63-4, 67-8, 71 proposals to remove, 69 removed, 69-70 last execution at, 70, 72 chronology of, 71-2 Dryden on, 74 annals of meagre, 75 mention of, sometimes omitted, 91 _note_ first recorded execution, 79 mistake as to Roger Mortimer, 103 said to be hung with garlands, 182 Chidley nails his protest near, 187 whipping from Newgate to, 202, 208, 209 pillory at, 202 said to be hung in mourning, 214 reason of removal to Newgate, 267, 268 martyrs of, 268 Oratory near, 268 Tyburn Gate, 70 Tyburn ticket, 220 and _note_ Villon, François, poet of the gibbet, 63 Wallace— execution of, 31-2, 32 _note_, 99, 100 his head the first exposed on London Bridge, 100 Walpole, Horace— robbed by Maclean, 244-45 his account of execution of Earl Ferrers, 251 Wapping— execution of pirates at, 20 and _note_ Execution Dock, 63 Warbeck, Perkin, pretender, 120-21 Watling Street, 8, 17, 67 Waverley Abbey, reference to, 15 _note_ Weavers of Bethnal Green, 254-55 “Were” and “wite,” 55 Westbourne, gallows at, 16, 58 Westminster, Abbat of— has 16 gallows in Middlesex, 13, 15-16, 58 houses wrecked, 84-5 Westminster Abbey, Dean’s Yard, formerly “The Elms,” 58 Wharton, Mary, stolen, 209-11 Whitney, James, a noted highwayman, 211-13 Wild, Jonathan— director of a great system of robbery, 234-35 exploits celebrated by Fielding, 234 pelted on way to Tyburn, 235 William the Conqueror abolishes capital punishment, 56 substitutes other punishments, 56 William III.— Shoplifting Act, 78 Assassination Plot, 215-17 imprisons Bernardi without trial, 217 the first king who suspends habeas corpus, 218-19 William, the sacrist of Westminster Abbey, 11, 24-5 Winchester— roads near, unsafe, 9-10 Statute of, 10 _note_ Woman burnt for treason— Mrs. Gaunt, in 1685, the last, except for coining, 207 narrow escape of Mrs. Merewether, 207 Wren, Sir Christopher, 225 Wyatt, Sir Thomas— his rebellion, 151-52 beheaded, 152 “Yellow Starch,” 181 _note_