British Executions - List Of Hangings In England

George Jennings
1757

Crime: burglary

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Monday, 17 January 1757 George Jennings and Thomas Hardy for a burglary in the house of Richard Fryre.

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Thomas Hardy
1757

Crime: burglary

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Monday, 17 January 1757 George Jennings and Thomas Hardy for a burglary in the house of Richard Fryre.

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John Gatward
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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Comment At the Assizes for Hertfordshire opened in Hertford on Monday, 11th April 1757, John Gatward (otherwise John Gard Green) was found guilty of the highway robbery of John Pink in the parish of West Hill on 4…

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Nathaniel Alman
1757

Crime: murder

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Nathaniel Alman guilty of the murder of his wife, Sarah, by mixing white arsenic into pills and feeding them to her, in the parish of Swynnerton on 14th September 1756.

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John Byng
1757

Crime: unknown

Location: Battle of Minorca

John Byng became the only British admiral executed, by firing squad by the Royal Navy. His crime was to have failed to "do his utmost" at the Battle of Minorca during the Seven Years War.

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Thomas Pearciful
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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Thomas Pearciful guilty of the highway robbery of Joseph Cartwright in the parish of Womborn on 17th November 1756: robbing him of a silver watch (valued at 40/-), a cloth coat (valued at 10/-), 2 woollen cloaks (valued…

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John Philips
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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John Philips & Bernardo Cerda

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Bernardo Cerda
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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John Philips & Bernardo Cerda

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Daniel Scrivenbrow
1757

Crime: house breaking

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Daniel Scrivenbrow

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Samuel Fletcher
1757

Crime: house breaking

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Samuel Fletcher and Samuel Capper guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of William Boot in the parish of Market Drayton on 11th November 1756; and stealing therefrom 4 yards of cloth (valued at 10/-)

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Samuel Capper
1757

Crime: house breaking

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Samuel Fletcher and Samuel Capper guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of William Boot in the parish of Market Drayton on 11th November 1756; and stealing therefrom 4 yards of cloth (valued at 10/-)

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Roger Llewellyn
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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Roger Llewellyn and Daniel Llewellyn guilty of the highway robbery of Hugh Jones in the parish of Oswestry on 22nd December 1756: robbing him of a canvas purse 9valued at 1d), 26 gold guineas, 2 gold half guineas, 6…

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Daniel Llewellyn
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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Roger Llewellyn and Daniel Llewellyn guilty of the highway robbery of Hugh Jones in the parish of Oswestry on 22nd December 1756: robbing him of a canvas purse 9valued at 1d), 26 gold guineas, 2 gold half guineas, 6…

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Mary Ellah
1757

Crime: murder

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Mary Ellah guilty of the murder of her husband, Thomas (Petit Treason), in the parish of South Cave on 1st February 1757 by striking him with an axe and giving him a mortal wound on the right temple. The punishment for…

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John Mason
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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April 1757

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Hugh Rees
1757

Crime: horse stealing

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1757

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John Bates
1757

Crime: burglary

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Friday, 1 April 1757 (Quarter Sessions papers)

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Samuel Hunt
1757

Crime: burglary

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Friday, 1 April 1757 (Quarter Sessions papers)

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James Atkins
1757

Crime: stealing

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Friday, 1 April 1757 (Quarter Sessions papers)

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Isabella Haines
1757

Crime: murder

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Isabella Haines was indicted for the murder of her male bastard, which she strangled soon after birth on 11th April 1757. She was ordered for execution on Saturday 13 August on the Town Moor. Not recorded in newspapers…

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Esau Davis
1757

Crime: murder

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Esau Davis guilty of the murder of his wife Dorothy.

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Edward Morgan
1757

Crime: murder

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EDWARD MORGAN Executed and hung in Chains at Glamorgan, 6th of April, 1757, for murdering a Family and burning down their House

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Daniel Thrustlecock
1757

Crime: house breaking

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Daniel Thrustlecock guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of William Parton in the parish of Wellington on 11th November 1756; and stealing therefrom 34 cheeses (valued at £7.10/-).

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William Hayward
1757

Crime: stealing

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William Hayward guilty of stealing 14 cheeses (valued at 40/-), 30 pounds of bacon (valued at 12/-), 10 pewter plates (valued at 10/-), an iron stock lock (valued at 12d), an iron key (valued at 6d), a pair of compasses…

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Edward Morgan
1757

Crime: murder

Location: —

Wednesday, 6 April 1757

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Benjamin Holt
1757

Crime: horse stealing

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Benjamin Holt guilty of stealing a dark brown mare (valued at £5), the property of Philip Kinsey in the parish of Pontefract on 21st September 1756.

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William Short
1757

Crime: Sacrilege

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Saturday, 16 April 1757 (Reading Mercury) William Short indicted for sacrilege: stealing a velvet table cloth (valued at ?5) and a velvet valence (valued at ?3), the property of the parishioners, in the parish church of…

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Robert Plank
1757

Crime: Highway robbery

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Saturday, 16 April 1757 (Reading Mercury) Robert Plank indicted for the highway robbery of William Child in the parish of Speen on 9th December 1756: robbing him of 3/6 in money numbered.

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John Barnet
1757

Crime: Burglary

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Saturday, 16 April 1757 (Reading Mercury) John Barnet indicted for a burglary in the dwelling house of John Butler in the parish of Remenham on 20th November 1756: stealing therefrom a linen bag (valued at 1d), 3…

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John Franklin
1757

Crime: murder

Location: —

Trial Thursday 21 Apr 1757 John Franklin murder of his wife, Alice. He was executed on Saturday 23 April 1757 at Green Ditch.

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John Gatward
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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Wednesday, 27 April 1757 at Colliers End (Cambridge Journal)

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Thomas Hulley
1757

Crime: return from transportation

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Friday, 29 April 1757

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Thomas Heritage
1757

Crime: stealing sheep

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Thomas Heritage for the theft of sheep.

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William Adams
1757

Crime: forgery

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WILLIAM ADAMS A Custom-House Officer in London, executed at Tyburn on 18th of May, 1757, for Forgery

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Richard Hughes
1757

Crime: forgery

Location: —

RICHARD HUGHES

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Elizabeth Newman
1757

Crime: murder

Location: —

Murder of her female bastard

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William Staines
1757

Crime: murder

Location: —

Thursday, 28 July 1757

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Stephen Tudear
1757

Crime: murder

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Stephen Tudear guilty of the murder of Ellen Applegarth in the parish of Wetherby. He was sentenced also to be hanged in chains on Clifford Moor, Wetherby.

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William Heugh
1757

Crime: murder

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Monday, 8 August 1757 (Newcastle Journal)

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Thomas Saunders
1757

Crime: house breaking

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Thomas Saunders

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William Simmonds
1757

Crime: house breaking

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William Simmonds

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William Dozel
1757

Crime: horse stealing

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William Dozel

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Matthew Snatt
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 12 August 1757 (Kentish Post)

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Stephen Hill
1757

Crime: stealing

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Thursday, 18 August 1757 (Western Flying Post)

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Roger Rowe
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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Thursday, 18 August 1757 (Western Flying Post)

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George Swanscombe
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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Thursday, 18 August 1757 (Western Flying Post)

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Joseph Butler
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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Joseph Butler for a highway robbery.

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John Clarkson
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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John Clarkson for a highway robbery

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Richard Collett
1757

Crime: horse stealing

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Richard Collett guilty of stealing a horse, the property of

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Joseph Brettall
1757

Crime: stealing

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Joseph Brettall guilty of stealing 4 iron vices (valued at 25/-) from the warehouse of James Wright in the parish of Dudley on 17th October 1756.

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Luke Cobb
1757

Crime: horse stealing

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Luke Cobb found guilty on an indictment for stealing a black mare (valued at £8), the property of John Balchin, in the parish of Shalford on 4th June 1757

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Richard Chapman
1757

Crime: burglary

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Richard Chapman found guilty on an indictment for a burglary in the dwelling house of John Inglefield in the parish of Cheam on 29th February 1757 (sic): stealing therefrom 3 scarlet cloaks (valued at £1), 6 shifts…

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Alexander Cartwright
1757

Crime: highway robbery

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Alexander Cartwright guilty of the highway robbery of Henry Heighes: robbing him of a silver watch (valued at 40/-) and other goods. Executed

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Mary Williams
1757

Crime: stealing

Location: —

Mary Williams (otherwise Mary Jones, otherwise Mary Printe) guilty of stealing 1½ yards of ribbon (valued t 3d) and £39.18/- in money numbered in the dwelling house of George McDaniel. Executed

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Richard Sturgees
1757

Crime: robbery

Location: —

Tuesday, 20 Septermber 1757 (Derby Mercury)

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Silas Stower
1757

Crime: uttering

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Silas Stower guilty of forging and uttering a Receipt.

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Richard Taylor
1757

Crime: house breaking

Location: —

Friday, 30 September 1757

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John Freeman
1757

Crime: murder

Location: —

John Freeman guilty of the murder of Joseph Stott, shooting him in the parish of Wisbech St Peter on 12th March 1757 of which wounds received he died on 13th March.

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