British Executions - List Of Hangings In England

Crime: murder

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John Bell reports this as “In 1743 a local poacher, John Williamson, was convicted of the murder of gamekeeper Albert Partridge. He was sentenced to be gibbeted alive. Records describe how the man, slowly starving, was…

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Thomas Rounce
1743

Crime: high treason

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HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY

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Thomas How
1743

Crime: highway robbery

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Lent 1743

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John Hood
1743

Crime: burglary

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Lent 1743

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William Porter
1743

Crime: murder

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Friday, 11 March 1743

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Domingo Goodheart
1743

Crime: murder

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Domingo Goodheart guilty of the murder of John Hollingshead. After execution his body was hanged in chains near the spot where the murder was committed.

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William May
1743

Crime: rape

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William May guilty of the rape of Mary (?) Goodwin, spinster

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George Ripper
1743

Crime: horse stealing

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George Ripper guilty of stealing a black gelding, the property of James Yeoman

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Richard Loaten
1743

Crime: highway robbery

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Richard Loaten and William Moore guilty of the highway robbery of John Fleet: robbing him of 4 Portuguese gold coins (each with a value of 36/-) and 14/- in silver money.

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William Moore
1743

Crime: highway robbery

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Richard Loaten and William Moore guilty of the highway robbery of John Fleet: robbing him of 4 Portuguese gold coins (each with a value of 36/-) and 14/- in silver money.

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John Gale
1743

Crime: highway robbery

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John Gale guilty of the highway robbery of Charles Cripps in the parish of Shipton on 6th November 1742: robbing him of 24/- in money numbered.

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Milly Gray
1743

Crime: horse stealing

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Milly Gray guilty of stealing a brown gelding (valued at £8), the property of Henry Brooke; a brown mare (valued at £5), the property of John Baker; and a grey gelding (valued at £10), the property of James Shield, all…

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William Attleborough
1743

Crime: unknown

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Saturday, 26 March 1743

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Mark Nottingham
1743

Crime: highway robbery

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Mark Nottingham guilty of the highway robbery

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William Clutterbuck
1743

Crime: stealing sheep

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Tuesday, 29 March 1743 (Quarter Sessions papers)

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Richard Feltham
1743

Crime: horse stealing

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1743 Lent assizes

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Richard Reynolds
1743

Crime: murder

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Richard Reynolds guilty of the murder of Thomas Stringer, by striking him on the back of the head with a wooden mallet, in the parish of Alveley on 2nd August 1742.

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Ralph Bostock
1743

Crime: horse stealing

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Ralph Bostock guilty of stealing a black mare (valued at 20/-), the property of John Hampton, in the parish of Welsh Hampton on 17th December 1742.

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William Forster
1743

Crime: house breaking

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William Forster guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of John Edwards in the parish of Hodnet on 16th August 1742; and stealing therefrom a pair of lace sheets (valued at 10/-), a cloth coat (valued at 8/-), a…

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John Walker
1743

Crime: stealing sheep

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John Walker guilty of stealing 6 ewes, the property of James Whitaker

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Ananias Webber
1743

Crime: house breaking

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Ananias Webber guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of Samuel Wayland; and stealing therefrom 12 pairs of stays (valued at 10/-).

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Nicholas Adams
1743

Crime: horse stealing

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Nicholas Adams guilty of stealing a mare, the property of John Gascomb

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Edward Pery
1743

Crime: murder

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Edward Pery guilty of the murder of his wife Jane

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John Pegrose
1743

Crime: horse stealing

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Lent 1743

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William Goodward
1743

Crime: stealing

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William Goodward guilty of stealing in a dwelling house. Left for execution. No reprieve traced. No report of hanging seen.

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David Gibbons
1743

Crime: murder

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Friday, 15 April 1743 (Sherbourne Mercury)

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Alice Stribbling
1743

Crime: murder

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Friday, 15 April 1743 (Sherbourne Mercury)

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John Lawford
1743

Crime: forgery

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Friday, 15 April 1743 (Sherbourne Mercury)

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Edward Perry
1743

Crime: return from transportation

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Edward Perry guilty of being found at large in the Kingdom having been tried at the Staffordshire Assizes on 5th August 1740 for stealing a black gelding (valued at 40/-) in the parish of Wolverhampton on 9th September…

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John Roberts
1743

Crime: murder

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Friday, 22 April 1743

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Hugh Bedward
1743

Crime: murder

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Friday, 22 April 1743

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Thomas Williams
1743

Crime: stealing sheep

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Thomas Williams (of Kings' Pyon, Herefordshire) in the parish of Glas..... on 1 March 1743 stole 21 sheep (value 40/-) belonging to James Lewis (WALES 4/519/8). Guilty verdict. No reprieve traced. Ossibly hanged. ?

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Thomas Dutton
1743

Crime: burglary

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Saturday, 30 April 1743 (Kentish Post)

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Sarah Barrett
1743

Crime: stealing

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Friday, 13 May 1743

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John Woods
1743

Crime: forgery

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Monday, 6 June

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Charles Taylor
1743

Crime: highway robbery

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Charles Taylor

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James Price
1743

Crime: highway robbery

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Summer 1743

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Samuel Macpherson
1743

Crime: unknown

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Corporal Samuel Macpherson 18/07/1743 S E wall of chapel Firing squad Desertion (Shot by 3rd Regiment of Guards)

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Malcolm Macpherson
1743

Crime: unknown

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Corporal Malcolm Macpherson 18/07/1743 S E wall of chapel Firing squad Desertion (Shot by 3rd Regiment of Guards)

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Farquhar Shaw
1743

Crime: unknown

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Private Farquhar Shaw 18/07/1743 S E wall of chapel Firing squad Desertion (Shot by 3rd Regiment of Guards)

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Mansole Sansbury
1743

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 22 July 1743 (Northampton Mercury)

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William Brown
1743

Crime: return from transportation

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Monday, 8 August 1743 - Westgate, Newcastle (Newcastle Journal)

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James Day
1743

Crime: murder

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James Day and Ann Hazard found guilty on an indictment for the murder of Simon Petell, by throwing him from a window in the dwelling house of James Day in the parish of Southwark (not specified) on 22nd May 1743, so…

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Ann Hazard
1743

Crime: murder

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James Day and Ann Hazard found guilty on an indictment for the murder of Simon Petell, by throwing him from a window in the dwelling house of James Day in the parish of Southwark (not specified) on 22nd May 1743, so…

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John Harris
1743

Crime: stealing

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John Harris (otherwise James Hazzard) found guilty on an indictment for stealing a dark gelding (valued at £10), the property of Abraham Goldsmith, in the parish of Kingston upon Thames on 13th May 1738.

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Richard Keeble
1743

Crime: return from transportation

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Richard Keeble found guilty on an indictment for being at large in the Kingdom having been tried at the Surrey Lent Assizes 1738 of stealing goods (valued at 10d) in the parish of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey on 31st…

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James Hunt
1743

Crime: sodomy

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James Hunt found guilty on an indictment for committing sodomy with Thomas Collins in a privy or necessary house in Pepper Alley stairs in the parish of St Saviour, Southwark on 3rd June 1743.

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Thomas Collins
1743

Crime: sodomy

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Thomas Collins found guilty on an indictment for permitting James Hunt to commit sodomy with him (as above).

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George Teague
1743

Crime: highway robbery

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Monday, 29 August 1743 (Leeds Mercury)

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Edward Seagrave
1743

Crime: murder

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Edward Seagrave guilty of the murder of Mary, wife of Daniel Azeland. No reprieve traced

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Edward Wollaston
1743

Crime: murder

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Edward Wollaston of Bishops Castle guilty of the murder of Richard Cadman, by putting a cord round his throat and choking and strangling him in the course of a robbery, in the parish of Norbury on 2nd May 1743. His body…

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George Gibson
1743

Crime: murder

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1743

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Peter Vine
1743

Crime: rape

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Wednesday, 5 October 1743

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Anne Thomas
1743

Crime: horse stealing

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The National Library of Wales: Crime and Punishment site on the Internet has, in addition to the above, two further death sentences and three guilty verdicts for crimes committed as follows:

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