British Executions - List Of Hangings In England

John Wells
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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March 1737

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Richard Mortimore
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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March 1737

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Rd Coyle
1737

Crime: murder

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HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY

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Edward Johnson
1737

Crime: mutiny

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HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY

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Nicolas Williams
1737

Crime: mutiny

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HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY

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Lawrence Sennett
1737

Crime: mutiny

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HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY

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John Thompson
1737

Crime: burglary

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Friday, 18 March 1737 (Stamford Mercury)(LDB records this under March 1736).

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John Hoy
1737

Crime: burglary

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Friday, 18 March 1737 (Kentish Post)

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John Middleton
1737

Crime: burglary

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Friday, 18 March 1737 (Kentish Post)

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Richard Lilley
1737

Crime: horse stealing

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Lent 1737 (probably hanged Saturday, 19 March)

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Thomas Thirley
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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Saturday, 19 March 1737 Thomas Thirley (otherwise Wiseman) guilty of the highway robbery of Richard Clarke. Dieted in gaol for 11 days after conviction.

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Joseph Wright
1737

Crime: burglary

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Joseph Wright guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Owen Coles. Dieted in gaol for 11 days after conviction.

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Henry Proud
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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Saturday, 19 March 1737

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William Edmonds
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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Saturday, 19 March 1737

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Michael Morey
1737

Crime: murder

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Michael Morey guilty of the murder of James Dew. After execution his body was hanged near the murder place on the Isle of Wight.

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James Brookes
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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James Brookes guilty of the highway robbery of William Binstead: robbing him of goods and money valued at £8.5.6½. No reprieve traced. No longer in gaol at time of Summer Assizes. No indication of execution.

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John Painter
1737

Crime: horse stealing

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John Painter (otherwise Hall), aged 35, guilty of stealing a horse

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John Johnson
1737

Crime: horse stealing

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John Johnson, aged 41, guilty of stealing a horse

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William Wright
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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William Wright guilty of the highway robbery of a female at Dickelburgh in about 1730.

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Richard Coulter
1737

Crime: arson

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Saturday, 26 March 1737 (Newcastle Courant)…

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Edward Pillen
1737

Crime: murder

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Murder of his wife, Elizabeth

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John Bicker
1737

Crime: burglary

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John Bicker guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Samuel Girling

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John Wallage
1737

Crime: burglary

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John Wallage guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of John Offard(?).

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Thomas Garner
1737

Crime: burglary

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Lent 1737

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William Richards
1737

Crime: horse stealing

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William Richards (otherwise John Laby) guilty of stealing a black mare, the property of John Lucas, in the parish of Berrington on 6th August 1736. Cost of dieting before execution 10/- i.e. 4 weeks. Executed.

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Andrew Berry
1737

Crime: high treason

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1737

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Alexander Screwens
1737

Crime: horse stealing

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March/April 1737

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John Kitchen
1737

Crime: burglary

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John Kitchen and Barrell Kitchen guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Edmund Beding.

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Barrell Kitchen
1737

Crime: burglary

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John Kitchen and Barrell Kitchen guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Edmund Beding.

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John Jones
1737

Crime: fornication

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John Jones guilty of bestiality with a she-ass in (parish illegible) on 31st October 1736. On 4th April his execution was respited for 6 weeks. No reprieve traced.

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Robert Purdy
1737

Crime: murder

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Robert Purdy found guilty on an indictment for the murder of his wife, Susannah, by beating her with a wooden staff so that she instantly died, in the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark on 7th August 1736.

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Rowland Rowley
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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Rowland Rowley and George Goswell found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Richard Evans in the parish of Barnes on 21st December 1736: robbing him of a silver watch (valued at 40/-), a bottle straw…

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George Goswell
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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Rowland Rowley and George Goswell found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Richard Evans in the parish of Barnes on 21st December 1736: robbing him of a silver watch (valued at 40/-), a bottle straw…

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John Cox
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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John Cox found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Thomas Tourle in the parish of Godstone on 10th January 1737: robbing him of a silver watch (valued at £3) and 3 gold guineas.

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Thomas Savage
1737

Crime: murder

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Thomas Savage for a murder. After execution hanged in chains 12 miles from Warwick.

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William Spurrier
1737

Crime: house breaking

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William Spurrier guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of Christopher Hellam; and stealing therefrom 23/- in money of Sarah Lipham.

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Benjamin Turner
1737

Crime: burglary

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Benjamin Turner guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Benjamin Butler in (parish illegible) on 8th December 1736: stealing therefrom a pair of boots (valued at 2/-).

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John Collins
1737

Crime: murder

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JOHN COLLINS Executed for murdering Jane Upcot, and exposing her head on a spike, 1737

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Mary Bird
1737

Crime: murder

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Mary Bird guilty of Petit Treason: the murder of her husband, John, by feeding a hasty pudding in which she had mixed a quantity of arsenic, at Mepal on 5th November 1736 of which he died on 8th November.

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William Smith
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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William Smith guilty of the highway robbery of John Rowman: robbing him of a grey stone horse (value 20 guineas) and a brown gelding (value (20 guineas), the property of Edmund Thomas Williamson. Dieted 10 days before…

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Thomas Lockyer
1737

Crime: horse stealing

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Thomas Lockyer guilty of stealing a grey mare (valued at 10 guineas), the property of John Hookes. Executed.

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John Guppy
1737

Crime: stealing

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John Guppy guilty of stealing 10/-, the money of Ann Sampson, in the dwelling house of James Bidlecombe. Executed.

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Humphrey Staple
1737

Crime: horse stealing

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Humphrey Staple guilty of stealing a black mare (valued at £5), the property of John Cranden. Executed

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Edward Daw
1737

Crime: house breaking

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August 1737

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Roger Bicker
1737

Crime: burglary

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Roger Bicker guilty of a burglary, with John Bicker (see above) in the dwelling house of Samuel Girling

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John Unkle
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 5 August 1737

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Jacob Mendlicoate
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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Jacob Mendlicoate for a highway robbery

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Henry Doggs
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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Henry Doggs for a highway robbery

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John Smith
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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Saturday, 13 August 1737 (Newcastle Courant)

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Benjamin Baker
1737

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 26 Aug 1737 (Northampton Mercury)

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John Collins
1737

Crime: murder

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Friday, 26 Aug 1737 (Northampton Mercury)

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Thomas Prince
1737

Crime: murder

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Friday, 26 Aug 1737 (Northampton Mercury)

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Charles Glimmer
1737

Crime: horse stealing

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Saturday, 27 August 1737 Castle Hill, Norwich

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William Allford
1737

Crime: horse stealing

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William Allford guilty of stealing a bay mare (valued at £7), the property of John Bragg. Dieted to 31/8.

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John Johnson
1737

Crime: arson

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John Johnson guilty of arson in that he maliciously set fire to the house of James Wood. Dieted to 14/9.

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James Freeman
1737

Crime: murder

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Friday 28 September 1737

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