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• James Hill
  1777

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  James Hill (otherwise Hinde, otherwise Actzen, also known as “John the Painter”) guilty of arson in that he maliciously set fire to and burned 20 tons of hemp (valued at £100), 10 cable ropes, each 100 fathoms long and…
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• James Hill
  1777

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  JAMES HILL Commonly called "John the Painter," an Incendiary, who aimed at the Destruction of the Nation. Executed at Portsmouth, 10th of March, 1777
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• Joseph Armstrong
  1777

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  JOSEPH ARMSTRONG Convicted of Murder, but cheated the Gallows by hanging himself, 17th of March, 1777
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• John Rye
  1777

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  Wednesday, 19 March 1777
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• James Lee
  1777

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  Friday, 21 March 1777
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• Thomas Burley
  1777

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  Thomas Burley (otherwise Burleigh) guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of William Wright in the parish of Hagley on 25th January 1777: stealing therefrom a bundle of Nailors iron (valued at 9/-), an iron grate…
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• Richard Carter
  1777

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  Richard Carter guilty of arson in that he maliciously set fire to and burned 2 stacks of hay (valued at £12), the property of Anthony Demezy
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• Edmund Eastoe
  1777

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  Edmund Eastoe, smuggler, guilty of the murder of Joseph Harpur at Lowestoft on 18th February: shooting him..
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• William Mee
  1777

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  Monday, 24 March 1777 William Mee for the murder of his wife, beating her to death.
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• William Newton
  1777

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  Shot at
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• William Hobens
  1777

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  William Hobens, a saddler’s ironmonger, guilty of the murder of Sarah Speed, by poisoning her with white arsenic mixed in ale which he gave her as a medicine, in the parish of Walsall on 2nd December 1776 so that she…
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• John Ellis
  1777

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  Friday, 4 April 1777
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• John Price
  1777

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  Friday, 4 April 1777
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• Richard Padgett
  1777

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  Friday, 4 April 1777
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• Stephen Player
  1777

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  Friday, 4 April 1777
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• Samuel Thoday
  1777

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  Thursday, 10 April 1777 (Shrewsbury Chronicle)
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• Jeffrey Williams
  1777

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  Jeffrey Williams guilty of stealing a black mare (valued at 40/-), the property of Richard Bagley, in the parish of Kinnerley on 13th October 1776.
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• Ann Hamlet
  1777

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  Ann Hamlet (otherwise Hamilton) guilty of being found at large in the Kingdom having been tried at the Quarter Sessions, held at Shrewsbury on 16th April 1776 for the theft of goods; found guilty and sentenced to…
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• John Manning
  1777

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  Saturday, 12 April 1777
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• Stephen Harris
  1777

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  Monday, 14 Apr 1777 probably at Bodmin
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• Thomas Banks
  1777

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  Thomas Banks found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of John Barnard in the parish of Streatham on 8th December 1777: robbing him of a watch (valued at 40/-), a watch seal (valued at 1/-), 1 gold half…
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• John Thomas
  1777

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  Monday, 21 April 1777
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• DODD, Rev Dr
  1777

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  Found guilty of forging a bond, in the name of Lord Chesterfiled for 4200l
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• Michael Burke
  1777

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  Michael Burke & Connor Cooney
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• Connor Cooney
  1777

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  Michael Burke & Connor Cooney
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• Henry Atkinson
  1777

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  Friday, 18 July 1777
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• Thomas Birch
  1777

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  Thomas Birch guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of Mary Grove, widow, in the parish of Hartlebury on 4th May 1777: stealing therefrom a silver tablespoon (valued at 2/-), a pair of silver tea tongs (valued at…
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• Thomas Ham
  1777

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  Friday, 25 July 1777
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• William Dodd
  1777

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  DR WILLIAM DODD
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• George Gillam
  1777

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  Friday, 1 August 1777
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• John Gorsden
  1777

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  Friday, 1 August 1777
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• John Martin
  1777

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  John Martin guilty of the murder of William Broome, his apprentice, by taking him from his bed at 10 o’clock at night, carrying him down to the cellar of his house and drowning him in the large quantity of water to be…
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• Arthur Hamill
  1777

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  Friday, 8 August 1777 (Exeter Flying Post)
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• Thomas Bartley
  1777

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  Friday, 8 August 1777 (Exeter Flying Post)
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• Thomas Lamb
  1777

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  Friday, 8 August 1777 (Exeter Flying Post)
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• John Rotchley
  1777

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  Saturday, 30 August 1777 (Manchester Magazine)
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• Sarah Sant
  1777

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  Friday, 11 September 1777 (Chester Chronicle)
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• Francis Mercier
  1777

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  FRANCIS MERCIER OTHERWISE LOUIS DE BUTTE Executed in Prince's Street, opposite Swallow Street, in the City of Westminster, 8th of December, 1777, for Murder
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• Benjamin Russen
  1777

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  THE REVEREND BENJAMIN RUSSEN, Executed for rape, 12th December, 1777
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