THE NEWGATE CALENDAR Edited by Donal Ó Danachair Volume 3
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THE NEWGATE CALENDAR Edited by Donal Ó Danachair Volume 3 Published by the Ex-classics Project, 2009 http://www.exclassics.com Public Domain -1- THE NEWGATE CALENDAR A View Of New Newgate Prison -2- VOLUME 3 CONTENTS HENRY COOK Notorious Horse-Stealer and Highwayman, executed at Tyburn, 16th of December, 1741.................................................................................................9 JONATHAN BRADFORD Executed at Oxford for a Murder he had contemplated but did not commit .......................................................................................................13 JOHN BODKIN, DOMINICK BODKIN AND OTHERS Executed in Ireland on 26th of March, 1742, for the Murder of Eleven Persons.............................................15 THOMAS LYELL AND LAWRENCE SYDNEY Swindlers, who cheated with Loaded Dice and were pilloried for Fraud, 2nd of June, 1742 ...................................16 ROBERT RAMSEY Highwayman, and a singular Cheat. Executed at Tyburn on the 13th of June, 1742........................................................................................................18 JOHN JENNINGS Executed at York, in the year 1742, on a charge of robbery, of which he was innocent. ................................................................................................21 ROBERT FULLER Convicted of shooting Mr Bailey, June Sessions, 1743, and pardoned because he was wrongly identified ..............................................................22 WILLIAM CHETWYND A Curious Case of a Schoolboy who killed another Boy during a Quarrel about a Cake, and was convicted of Manslaughter, October, 174324 LYDIA ADLER Burned in the Hand for killing her Husband, who had four Wives.27 PATRICK BOURKE AND GEORGE ELLIS Executed at Tyburn, 20th of February, 1745, for Sheep-Stealing..............................................................................................28 MARTHA TRACY Executed for a Street Robbery ...................................................30 MATTHEW HENDERSON Executed in Oxford Street, 25th of February, 1746, for murdering his Mistress, Lady Dalrymple, who was angry because he trod on her Toe. ......................................................................................................................................33 MARY HAMILTON A Woman who was imprisoned and whipped for marrying Fourteen Women, 1746................................................................................................35 THE SECOND REBELLION OF THE PRETENDER TO THE BRITISH THRONE in the year 1745. ..........................................................................................................36 CHARLES RATCLIFFE Who assumed the title of Earl of Derwentwater.................60 THOMAS CAPPOCK The rebel bishop of Carlisle. ..................................................64 THE ESCAPE OF THE PRETENDER After the Battle of Culloden..........................67 LORD LOVAT Beheaded for High Treason, at the age of Eighty, on 9th of April, 1747..............................................................................................................................71 FRANCIS TOWNLEY, JEMMY DAWSON AND OTHERS Lesser rebels against his Majesty ...................................................................................................................75 JOSEPH RAWLINS, alias GREAT JOE A daring and notorious Smuggler, executed at Winchester, October 10, 1748 for burglary.............................................................82 GEORGE LANCASTER Executed at Tyburn, 16th of November, 1747, for forging a Seaman's Will, in order to rob his Wife and Child ......................................................85 HOSEA YOUELL Executed at Tyburn, Nov. 16, 1747, for murder...........................87 -3- THE NEWGATE CALENDAR HENRY SIMMS The Extraordinary Career of a Youth, who was executed at Tyburn, 16th of November, 1747, after returning from Transportation, for Highway Robbery ......................................................................................................................................89 SERJEANT SMITH An English Deserter to the French, shot in the Park on the 11th day of December, 1747. ...............................................................................................93 WILLIAM WHURRIER Executed at Tyburn for murder, March 7, 1748, and his body hung in chains on Finchley common. (A Hard Case.) ........................................95 WILLIAM YORK "The Boy Murderer," convicted of the Murder of another Child in the Poorhouse of Eyke, in Suffolk, May, 1748 .............................................................97 GEORGE COCK A most Plausible Scoundrel, executed at Tyburn, 13th of June, 1748, for privately stealing..........................................................................................99 THOMAS THOMPSON Executed at Tyburn, Oct. 24, 1748, for horse-stealing.....101 JOHN WHITMORE AND JEREMIAH DAWES of the University of Oxford. Convicted and punished for Sedition, 28th of November, 1748 ................................103 THE THIEF, THE PRIESTS, AND THE GREAT KING OF PRUSSIA An Anecdotal Fact, and a touch at Superstition...............................................................................105 JOHN YOUNG Executed for Forgery, at Edinburgh, 19th December, 1748..........106 BENJAMIN TAPNER, JOHN COBBY, JOHN HAMMOND, RICHARD MILLS, RICHARD MILLS THE YOUNGER, AND OTHERS Revengeful Smugglers, who were executed for a Diabolical Murder, 18th of January, 1749 ...............................109 USHER GAHAGAN AND TERENCE CONNER Erudite Men, who were executed for High Treason, in diminishing the Current Coin of the Realm, 28th of February , 1749............................................................................................................................115 BRIAN SEYMOUR Executed for murder, 2nd March, 1749...................................117 JOHN COLLINGTON A Man of extraordinary Violence and Inhumanity. Executed at Canterbury with his Accomplice, John Stone, for setting fire to a Barn ...................119 RICHARD COLEMAN Who was executed on Kennington Common, in Surrey, 12th of April, 1749, for a Murder he did not commit.........................................................123 THOMAS KINGSMILL, FAIRALL AND PERIN Three of the thirty Smugglers who broke open the Custom-House at Poole, and were executed at Tyburn, 26th of April, 1749............................................................................................................................126 SAMUEL COUCHMAN AND JOHN MORGAN, LIEUTENANTS OF MARINES, THOMAS KNIGHT, CARPENTER, AND OTHERS Part of the Crew of His Majesty's Ship Chesterfield, shot at Portsmouth, for mutiny, July 14, 1749. ............128 JOHN MILLS His Father and Brother were hanged, and he suffered a similar Fate on Slendon Common, Sussex, 12th of August, 1749 ..................................................131 THOMAS NEALE and WILLIAM BOWEN Highwaymen; (The former a most hardened Sinner, who died cursing the Spectators of his Execution, August 12, 1749.) ....................................................................................................................................134 BENJAMIN NEALE Executed at Surrey, August 12, 1749, for burglary................137 HUGH DAWSON and JOHN GAMMELL Executed on Kennington-common, August 22, 1749......................................................................................................................140 ROBERT COX Late Captain's Clerk of the Royal George Man-of-War. Executed at Winchester, 1st of September, 1749, for Forging Seamen's Tickets..........................142 ANN FLYNN A Sad Case with a Humorous Sequel.................................................143 -4- VOLUME 3 BOSAVERN PENLEZ Executed for rioting, 18th October, 1749...........................144 CAPTAIN CLARKE, R.N. Convicted and condemned to be hanged for the Murder of Captain Innis, in a Duel, and pardoned, 12th of June, 1750.....................................146 MARGARET HARVEY Executed for Privately Stealing .......................................148 JAMES COOPER Executed for murder, August 26th, 1750....................................150 JAMES MACLANE Called "The Gentleman Highwayman." Executed at Tyburn, 3rd of October, 1750, for Highway Robbery....................................................................155 WILLIAM SMITH A Captain's Clerk in the Royal Navy, Forger of Seamen's Tickets; Executed at Tyburn, October 3, 1750. .......................................................................158 AMY HUTCHINSON Executed at Ely, 7th of November, 1750, for Petit Treason, in the Murder of her Husband........................................................................................162 JOHN VICARS Executed at Ely, 7th of November, 1750, for the Murder of his Wife, after first witnessing the Strangling of a Woman for murdering her Husband .........164 JOHN CARR The Victim of Swindlers himself, he became a Pirate and Smuggler, and was executed at Tyburn, 16th of November, 1750, for Forgery .........................167 GEORGE ANDERSON ALIAS JOHN EVERETT Who picked Pockets at Newgate, became a Highwayman, and was executed for stealing Ribbons, 31st December, 1750 ....................................................................................................................................170 WILLIAM RILEY A young Soldier, whose Zeal for Sport led to a Murder, for which he was executed at Tyburn in 1750............................................................................172