British Executions - List Of Hangings In England

Crime: assault

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1738 John Jones (of the parish of Llanwareth ?, Radnor) in the parish of Llanlleonfel on 22 August 1737 assaulted Luke Gwynn with a knife with intent to murder (WALES 4/376/3). Guilty verdict.

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Thomas Carr
1738

Crime: robbery

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THOMAS CARR, AN ATTORNEY , AND ELIZABETH ADAMS Executed at Tyburn, 18th of January, 1738, for Robbery

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Elizabeth Adams
1738

Crime: robbery

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THOMAS CARR, AN ATTORNEY , AND ELIZABETH ADAMS Executed at Tyburn, 18th of January, 1738, for Robbery

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John Richardson
1738

Crime: piracy

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JOHN RICHARDSON AND RICHARD COYLE Pirates, hanged at Execution Dock, 25th January, 1738

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Richard Coyle
1738

Crime: piracy

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JOHN RICHARDSON AND RICHARD COYLE Pirates, hanged at Execution Dock, 25th January, 1738

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John Richardson
1738

Crime: murder

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HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY

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Richard Woodward
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Richard Woodward was executed for highway robbery.

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William Clifford
1738

Crime: burglary

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William Clifford guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Joseph Brotherton in the parish of Doddington on 7th November 1737: stealing therefrom a cloth great coat (valued at 5/-), a Holland shirt (valued at 4/-),…

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Thomas Fone
1738

Crime: murder

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1738 Lent assizes Thomas Fone (otherwise Woodford) guilty of the murder of Mary Wellbridge. Executed.

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James Brown
1738

Crime: At large

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At large

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John Sturabout
1738

Crime: Murder of Giles Blagrove

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Murder of Giles Blagrove

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William Walton
1738

Crime: unknown

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Saturday, 11 March 1738 Mount Pleasant. Oakham (Northampton Mercury)

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William Udall
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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WILLIAM UDALL A Profligate Apprentice, who turned Highwayman. Executed at Tyburn, 14th of March, 1738

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George Slater
1738

Crime: stealing

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Wednesday, 15 March 1738 (Northampton Mercury of Monday, 20 March)

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John Collins
1738

Crime: stealing

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Wednesday, 15 March 1738 (Northampton Mercury of Monday, 20 March)

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Thomas Dixon
1738

Crime: burglary

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Friday, 17 March 1738 (Stamford Mercury) (LDB records this under March 1737).

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William Marshall
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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William Marshall for a highway robbery

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John Boyd
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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John Boyd guilty of the highway robbery of Thomas Durmain: robbing him of a Portuguese gold coin (value 36/-) and other money.

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James Warwick
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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James Warwick guilty of stealing a grey mare (value 4 guineas), the property of Bartholomew Munday

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Mary Grote
1738

Crime: petty treason

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Mary Grote (aged 16) guilty of Petit Treason: murder by poison of her mistress, Justin Turner. Sentenced to be drawn to the place of execution and there burned.

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James Gilders
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 24 Mar 1738 (Derby Mercury)

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Thomas Hallam
1738

Crime: stealing

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Thomas Hallam reported as executed for the theft of a cow in “Nottingham - a place of execution by Terry Lambley” under 1738 but no other source. Derby Mercury reports 2 death sentences for each Assizes this year with 1…

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Samuel Davis
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Saturday, 25 March 1738 (Northampton Mercury)

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John Edwards
1738

Crime: house breaking

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John Edwards

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Henry Buller
1738

Crime: house breaking

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Henry Buller

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Richard Woodward
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Thursday, 30 March 1738

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John Ireland
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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Lent 1738

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Charles Cadman
1738

Crime: house breaking

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Charles Cadman guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of John Garmson in the parish of Norbury on 9th September 1737 with intent to steal.

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Charles Winn
1738

Crime: unknown

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Charles Winn (otherwise Gwin) guilty of unlawfully, maliciously and feloniously breaking down the head and mound of the fishpond of Samuel Bagnall in the parish of Barlaston on 18th April 1737 whereby the fish in the…

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Michael Laky
1738

Crime: burglary

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Michael Laky and Carbery Egan guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Richard Griffith in the parish of Ellesmere on 39th November 1737: putting Mary Hughes, therein, in fear and stealing therefrom 8 gold guineas.…

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Carbery Egan
1738

Crime: burglary

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Michael Laky and Carbery Egan guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Richard Griffith in the parish of Ellesmere on 39th November 1737: putting Mary Hughes, therein, in fear and stealing therefrom 8 gold guineas.…

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Edward Jones
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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Edward Jones guilty of stealing a bay gelding (valued at 16/-), the property of Ellis Jones, in the parish of St Chad, Shrewsbury on 1st October 1737. Executed.

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Ann Williams
1738

Crime: murder

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Ann Williams, single, in the parish of ........ on 24 January 1738 gave birth to a female bastard child which she at once threw into a stream of water and the child died (WALES 4/812/4). The Indictment is marked with…

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Jennet Reynolds
1738

Crime: murder

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Jennet Reynolds in the parish of New Moat on the 20 March 1738 gave birth to

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Cornelius Weld
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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Lent 1738

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Thomas Smith
1738

Crime: house breaking

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March/April 1738

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Joseph Thompson
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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Saturday, 1 April 1738 (York Courant)&nbsp…

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John Frederick Edon
1738

Crime: stealing

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John Frederick Edon guilty of stealing money in the dwelling house of Jeffrey Fawcett.

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William Taylor
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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William Taylor (otherwise Charles Emerston) and Thomas Hill guilty of stealing a black gelding (valued at £4), the property of Edward Hollis, in the parish of Inkberrow on 31st August 1737.

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Thomas Hill
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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William Taylor (otherwise Charles Emerston) and Thomas Hill guilty of stealing a black gelding (valued at £4), the property of Edward Hollis, in the parish of Inkberrow on 31st August 1737.

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William Tink
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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William Tink and Jeoffrey Leakey (otherwise Leeks, More, Mown) guilty of the highway robbery of Ellis Branding.

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Jeoffrey Leakey
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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William Tink and Jeoffrey Leakey (otherwise Leeks, More, Mown) guilty of the highway robbery of Ellis Branding.

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Gill Smith
1738

Crime: murder

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Gill Smith, apothecary, of the parish of St Bridget (otherwise Brides) in the Ward of Farringdon Without, found guilty on an indictment for the murder of his wife, Elizabeth, by cutting her throat with a knife, in the…

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Daniel Moylon
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Daniel Moylon, Henry Kelly, John Riley and Timothy Cosgrave and George Green (otherwise Henry Greenwood) found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of William Clay in the parish of Camberwell on 13th July…

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Henry Kelly
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Daniel Moylon, Henry Kelly, John Riley and Timothy Cosgrave and George Green (otherwise Henry Greenwood) found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of William Clay in the parish of Camberwell on 13th July…

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John Riley
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Daniel Moylon, Henry Kelly, John Riley and Timothy Cosgrave and George Green (otherwise Henry Greenwood) found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of William Clay in the parish of Camberwell on 13th July…

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Timothy Cosgrave
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Daniel Moylon, Henry Kelly, John Riley and Timothy Cosgrave and George Green (otherwise Henry Greenwood) found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of William Clay in the parish of Camberwell on 13th July…

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George Green
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Daniel Moylon, Henry Kelly, John Riley and Timothy Cosgrave and George Green (otherwise Henry Greenwood) found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of William Clay in the parish of Camberwell on 13th July…

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Walter Conolly
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Walter Conolly and Oliver White found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Francis How in the parish of Camberwell on 21st September 1737: robbing him of 1 gold guinea.

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Oliver White
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Walter Conolly and Oliver White found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Francis How in the parish of Camberwell on 21st September 1737: robbing him of 1 gold guinea.

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Ann Goodson
1738

Crime: murder

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Ann Goodson found guilty on an indictment for the murder of her husband, Thomas, by stabbing him with a knife so that he instantly died, in the parish of St Olave, Southwark on 8th December 1737. She was strangled and…

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Mary Strecks
1738

Crime: murder

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Mary Strecks (?) murder by strangling of her female bastard. No reprieve found. Presume executed.

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Thomas Boon
1738

Crime: rioting

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Friday, 14 April 1738

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Robert Mans
1738

Crime: burglary

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Saturday, 15 Aptril 1738 Castle Hill, Norwich

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George Phillips
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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George Phillips guilty of stealing a black mare (valued at £3), the property of James Bambury in the parish of Martock.

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Richard Hobbs
1738

Crime: stealing

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Richard Hobbs (otherwise Hales) guilty of stealing a dun gelding (valued at £4), the property of Obadiah Gough near Bristol.

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Nathaniel Whayman
1738

Crime: petty treason

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Nathaniel Whayman (otherwise Wethyman) guilty of Petit Treason in that he murdered his master, Richard Trott of Ashill. Sentenced to be drawn to the gallows.

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Henry Murral
1738

Crime: murder

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guilty of the murder. Initially ordered for execution on 28th April

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John Toon
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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JOHN TOON AND EDWARD BLASTOCK

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Edward Blastock
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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JOHN TOON AND EDWARD BLASTOCK

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John Taylor
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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Summer 1738

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Zachariah Mann
1738

Crime: return from transportation

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Summer 1738

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Joseph Johnson
1738

Crime: forgery

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JOSEPH JOHNSON Pickpocket and "Esquire," who swindled many Farmers and was executed at Tyburn, 19th of July, 1738, at the Age of Sixty

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John Crabb
1738

Crime: murder

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1738 Summer assizes John Crabb guilty of the murder of John Collingdon. Executed.

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Henry Clarke
1738

Crime: murder

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Saturday, 29 July 1738

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Thomas Baker
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Thomas Baker guilty of the highway robbery of Mary, wife of William Baggs: robbing her of 5/6. Dieted 18 days before execution.

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Daniel Hooker
1738

Crime: house breaking

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Daniel Hooker guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of Matthew Vidler; and stealing therefrom 2 cloth coats (valued at 50/-) and other goods. Dieted 18 days before execution.

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Rees Price
1738

Crime: return from transportation

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Rees Price guilty of being found at large in the Kingdom having been tried at the Salop Assizes held on 15th March 1733 for uttering counterfeit coinage in the parish of Clunbury on 7th January 1733; found guilty and…

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William Asleby
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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William Asleby guilty of stealing a brown mare (valued at 40/-), the property of William Fox, in the parish of Shifnal on 12th November 1737. Executed.

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Henry Parnell
1738

Crime: murder

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Friday, 4 August 1738

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Robert Robertson
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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Wednesday. 9 or 16 August 1738 Robert Robertson for the theft of a horse.

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Robert Milloway
1738

Crime: Highway robbery

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Highway robbery

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William Parrott
1738

Crime: Highway robbery

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Highway robbery

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William Cutts
1738

Crime: horse stealing

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Saturday, 19 August 1738 Castle Hill, Norwich

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Richard Kilburn
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Richard Kilburn found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of John Gotobed in the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark on 13th May 1738: robbing him of a silver watch (valued at 50/-), a pair of silver…

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William Hoare
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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William Hoare found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Joseph Collyer in the parish of Merton on 2nd May 1738: robbing him of a metal watch (valued at 40/-), a silver seal (valued at 2/-), an enamelled…

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William Cooper
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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William Cooper found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of James Trymmer in the parish of Wandsworth on 23rd May 1738: robbing him of 6 gold guineas.

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Stephen Sutton
1738

Crime: highway robbery

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Stephen Sutton found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of John Row in the parish of Banstead on 12th May 1738: robbing him of 20/- in money numbered.

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William Newington
1738

Crime: forgery

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WILLIAM NEWINGTON A Writer, who forged a Draft for One Hundred and Twenty Pounds and was executed at Tyburn on 26th of August, 1738

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John Hobbs
1738

Crime: high treason

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Monday, 18 September 1738

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John Totterdale
1738

Crime: murder

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JOHN TOTTERDALE

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George Price
1738

Crime: murder

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GEORGE PRICE Sentenced to Death for murdering his Wife, but died of Jail Fever, 22nd of October, 1738

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Jas Buchanan
1738

Crime: murder

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HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY

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