British Executions

John Guest

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: stealing

Date Of Execution: 27 Apr 1799

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Lancaster Moor

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/lanc1735.html

John Guest guilty of stealing 60 yards of cotton cloth called Dimity (valued at £3) and 80 yards of cotton Dimity (valued at £ 3) from the drying house of James Lomax, bleacher, in the parish of Bury on 1st December 1798.