British Executions - List Of Hangings In England

Crime: Riot

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Eckland, Simpson & Shelton tried by a Special Commission at Reading. Friday, 26 December 1766 (Jackson?s Oxford Journal) The above three were tried with others by a Special Commission which sat in Reading, Salisbury and…

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Daniel Long
1767

Crime: rioting

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Daniel Long (aged 46) guilty of a riot.

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John Hall
1767

Crime: rioting

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John Hall (aged 56) guilty of a riot

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Samuel Orton
1767

Crime: forgery

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SAMUEL ORTON Clerk to the Court of Requests, executed 14th of January,1767, for forging Two Letters of Attorney, in the Name of Captain Bishop, by means of which he received One Thousand Pounds from the Bank of England

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John Williamson
1767

Crime: murder

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JOHN WILLIAMSON A deliberate and cruel Murderer, who tortured and starved his Wife to Death. Executed in Moorfields, 19th of January, 1767

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John Winne
1767

Crime: murder

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HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY

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John Hale
1767

Crime: highway robbery

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Monday, 23 March 1767 (Sheriffs Cravings)

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Robert Rymes
1767

Crime: murder

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Saturday, 28 March 1767 (Jackson’s Oxford Journal)

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Richard Mihill
1767

Crime: murder

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Richard Mihill found guilty on an indictment for the murder of his brother Robert Mihill, by stabbing him in the left side of his breast, in the parish of Richmond on 23rd August 1766.

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Mary Morgan
1767

Crime: murder

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Mary Morgan, widow and Mary Roberts, single, in the parish of Little Newcastle on 24 August 1766 did beat, bruise and wound a new born male child of Mary Roberts and cast the child with force and violence upon the…

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Mary Roberts
1767

Crime: murder

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Mary Morgan, widow and Mary Roberts, single, in the parish of Little Newcastle on 24 August 1766 did beat, bruise and wound a new born male child of Mary Roberts and cast the child with force and violence upon the…

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Michael Allum
1767

Crime: murder

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Michael Allum (aged 36) for the murder of William Muddyman, his apprentice, striking and beating him..

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William Jordan
1767

Crime: burglary

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William Jordan

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John Jermy
1767

Crime: house breaking

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Saturday, 4 April 1767

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George Woodbine
1767

Crime: house breaking

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Saturday, 4 April 1767

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Richard Clark
1767

Crime: house breaking

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Richard Clark guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of Mark Hatterly in the parish of Ripon on 22nd August 1766; and stealing therefrom a purse (valued at 1d), 10 gold guineas, 14 gold half guineas, a gold 36/-…

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Matthew Young
1767

Crime: highway robbery

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Matthew Young guilty of the highway robbery of Barnet Frank in the parish of Allerton Mauleverer on 10th August 1766: robbing him of an oak box (valued at 2/-), 48 silver teaspoons (valued at £5), 8 other silver spoons…

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John Scott
1767

Crime: house breaking

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John Scott (otherwise Haines) guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of Joseph Boot in the parish of St Mary, Bridgnorth on 17th January 1767; and stealing therefrom a watch with silver cases (valued at £3), 11 gold…

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Phillip Phillips
1767

Crime: murder

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Wednesday, 22 April 1767

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William Bostock
1767

Crime: murder

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Friday,F 24 April 1767 a city execution ? (ACC)

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Henry Capes
1767

Crime: highway robbery

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Henry Capes for a highway robbery.

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Samuel Turner
1767

Crime: house breaking

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Samuel Turner guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of Thoams Aspey in the parish of Acton Beauchamp on 19th July 1766; and stealing therefrom 6 linen shirts (valued at 12/-), 4 linen handkerchiefs (valued at 2/-),…

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Lewis Morgan
1767

Crime: stealing

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Lent 1767

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Richard Smith
1767

Crime: highway robbery

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Richard Smith (otherwise Richard Davis) found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Henry Marsh in the parish of Putney on 18th July 1766: robbing him of a watch (valued at 40/-), 2 gold guineas and 6/- in…

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Sarah Addington
1767

Crime: murder

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Monday, 3 August 1767( Execution ordered for 3/8 Cambridge Chronicle)

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Ann Strawbridge
1767

Crime: murder

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Murder of her female bastard

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Mary Newton
1767

Crime: murder

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Saturday, 8 August 1767 (ACC)

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William Timbrell
1767

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 27 March 1767

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Robert Downe
1767

Crime: murder

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Robert Downe for the murder of Thomas Greenwood (a deaf and dumb boy aged 13) by stabbing him. After execution he was hanged in chains near the murder spot at the Gravel Pits, Lichfield Lane end near Mansfield.

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Ann Sowerby
1767

Crime: petty treason

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Ann Sowerby guilty of Petit Treason: the murder of her husband, Timothy, by poisoning him with arsenic mixed in milk in the parish of …….. on 9th July 1767. She was ordered to be drawn to the palace of execution and…

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John Baker
1767

Crime: house breaking

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Friday, 14 Aug 1767 (LDB)

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William Bryant
1767

Crime: Highway robbery

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Saturday 15 August 1767 (Northampton Mercury) William Bryant and Thomas Bryant indicted for the highway robbery of Francis Steptoe in the parish of Chieveley on 5th January 1767: robbing him of a gold quarter guinea and…

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Thomas Bryant
1767

Crime: Highway robbery

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Saturday 15 August 1767 (Northampton Mercury) William Bryant and Thomas Bryant indicted for the highway robbery of Francis Steptoe in the parish of Chieveley on 5th January 1767: robbing him of a gold quarter guinea and…

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Thomas Reynolds
1767

Crime: burglary

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Wednesday, 19 August 1767 (Leicester and Nottingham Journal)

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Thomas Goodeve
1767

Crime: horse stealing

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Friday, 21 August 1767 (Ipswich Journal)

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John Butcher
1767

Crime: horse stealing

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Friday, 21 August 1767 (Ipswich Journal)

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John Hockaday
1767

Crime: return from transportation

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Friday, 28 August 1767 (Exeter Flying Post)

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Thomas Nicholson
1767

Crime: murder

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Monday 31 August 1767 (Newcastle Courant (Courier))

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Joseph Metford
1767

Crime: burglary

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Joseph Metford found guilty on an indictment for a burglary in the dwelling house of John Finch in the parish of Epsom on 9th August 1767: stealing therefrom a silver tea kettle and lamp (valued at £15), 2 silver…

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Elizabeth Brownrigg
1767

Crime: murder

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ELIZABETH BROWNRIGG Executed at Tyburn, 14th of September, 1767, for torturing her Female Apprentices to Death

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BROWNRIGG, Elizabeth
1767

Crime: unknown

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Murder of her apprentice

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Mathieu Maraux
1767

Crime: highway robbery

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Mathieu Maraux, aged about 25, found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of William Moss in the parish of Cobham on 28th December 1766: robbing him of a watch (valued at £4), 1 gold half guinea and a foreign…

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William Guest
1767

Crime: coining

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WILLIAM GUEST Executed at Tyburn, 14th of October, 1767, for High Treason, in diminishing the Current Coin of the Realm

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Thomas Boys
1767

Crime: highway robbery

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Thomas Boys, aged 27, and Richard Boys, aged 24, guilty of the highway robbery of Abraham Earnshaw in Halifax: robbing him of a purse (valued at 1d), 8 gold guineas and 5/- in other money.

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Richard Boys
1767

Crime: highway robbery

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Thomas Boys, aged 27, and Richard Boys, aged 24, guilty of the highway robbery of Abraham Earnshaw in Halifax: robbing him of a purse (valued at 1d), 8 gold guineas and 5/- in other money.

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William Pearse
1767

Crime: stealing

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Monday, 5 or 19 October 1767 Launceston (Western Flying Post)

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Edward Higgins
1767

Crime: burglary

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Saturday, 7 November 1767

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Evan Morgan
1767

Crime: horse stealing

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Autumn 1767

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