A
Act of Union,190
Act to Abolish Hanging the Bodies of Criminals in Chains 1834,14,165 Admiralty Court,13,14,18,78,84,
88,92,102,125,149 Africa,93
America,190,194 Amsterdam,57
Anatomy Act 1832,14,79,149,153 Anatomy Bill 1829,157
Anderson, Clare,190 Antigua,17
Archbishop of Canterbury,158 Assize Court records,80
Attorney General,119,140,142,185
B
Bank of England,148 Barrington, Daines,132 Bavaria,194
Beattie, John,8,29,34,142 Beccaria, Cesare,125,128 Bedfordshire,95
Bennett, Rachel,190 Bentham, Jeremy,153,157 Berkshire,96
Best, Judge,151
biblical arguments against the death penalty,62,128
Bill to Alter the Punishment of High Treason 1813,149
Black Acts,187 Blackburn,160
Blackstone, William,125,131,144 Blandy, Mary,55
Bloody Code,11,13,63,142,166, 187,192,197
Bristol,105
Brockman, William,45 Brougham, Henry,167
C
Caius College Cambridge,19 Cambridgeshire,90
capital punishments,1 beheading,15
boiling convicted poisoners to death, 16
breaking on the wheel,5,16,35,36, 39–41,43,46,49,50,53–55, 57,58,131,183,194
buried in a special malefactors burial place,131
burning alive,42,47,50,58,131, 183
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capital punishments (cont.)
burning at the stake,4,13,16,35, 38,39,42,49,55,78,84,140,194 burying alive,16
disembowelled and beheaded,54, 78
dissection,1,4,6,16,39,47,48, 50,56,60,78,83,86,93,99, 128–130,133,134,144,151, 184,186,187,195,198 drowning,15,16
fed to the lions and tygers in the Tower,36,131
gibbeting,4,6,16–18,29,43,44, 53,78,79,83,92,99,126,130, 134,144,147,148,150,151, 164,190,191
gibbeting alive,38,39,131 Halifax‘gibbet’,15
hand of condemned also cut off,16, 190
hanging,5,8,11,35,49,136,142 hanging in chains,1,5,46,60,86,
114,129,163,184,187,198 heads displayed on poles,17 Lex Talionis,37,47,50,53,54,131 peine fort et dure,37
skeleton hung in Surgeons' Hall, 121,134
starving to death,5,29,35 stoning the bodies of those just
executed,131
subjected to bite of a mad dog,36 whipping to death,36
Captain Kidd,19
Cato Street conspiracy,150 Chamberlayne, Edward,41 Charles, Jones,54
Cockburn, James,8,183 Congleton Cannibal,98,105 Connors, Richard,52
conservatism of the English people in relation to legal change,59 Cornish attitudes,82
Cornwall,90,95,102,191
Corpses made available to the surgeons, 94
cost of gibbeting,101 Covent Garden Journal,44 crime-scene executions,147 criminals attitudes to post-execution
punishments,104,139,185 Cumberland,90
Cumbria,95,191
D
Dagge, Henry,125 Daily Advertiser,53 Damiens,9,57 Davies, Owen,2
Dawes, Manasseh,125,128 Defoe, Daniel,33,48 Derby Mercury,32,49,77 Derbyshire,151
Devereaux, Simon,12,113,137,138, 141,168,191,193
Devon,88,95
Devon and Exeter Hospital,152 differentiation within capital
punishment system,35,61,63,127, 139,155,166,187
Disney, John,152
Dissection of Convicts Bill 1786,13, 137
Drury Lane Journal,54 duelists,32,134 Dundas, Henry,137 Durham,95
Durston, Gregory,18 Dyndor, Zoe,91
E
Earl Ferrers,116,118
Earl Grey,154,158,162,163, 166–168,186,187
Earl of Shaftesbury,165 East Indies,93
Eden, William,125,129,130,132 Edgware Road,92,102
Edinburgh,57
Edinburgh Guild of Surgeons and Barbers,19
Elias, Norbert,8,9,12 English Chronicle,165 Essex,95
European resurgence in execution levels,194
Execution Dock,19,93 Execution rates,11 Ewart, William,165
F
Fielding, Henry,44,51,52,61 Finchley Common,92
First Reform Act,166 Foucault, Michel,9,12,187
France,9,16,33,40,57,58,88,142, 165
Friedland, Paul,8 Friedrich II,57
G
Garland, David,10,11,195,196 Gatrell, Vic,3,11,148,150,192,193 gender, impact on post-execution
punishment,96 General Advertiser,77 General Evening Post,138
Gentleman’s Magazine,31,33,38,48, 124,131,146
Germany,16,40,57,58,184,194
gibbets, demolishing of,151 Glasgow,155
Grave robbery,135 Graves-End,19
H
Hangar Lane,92
Hanging Not Punishment Enough,5, 29
Hansard,163 Hanway, Jonas,125
Hay, Douglas,3,148,188,189 Hey, William,137
Highgate road,44
high treason,13,50,55,84,141,149 highway robbery,97
Holland,16,40,58,183,185,194 Hollowell Heath, Northamptonshire,
105
Home circuit,90 Home Secretary,137 Hounslow Heath,92,151 House of Commons Journals,46 Howard, John,125
Hume, Joseph,155
Hunt, Henry,160,161,163 Huntingdon,88,100
Hurren, Elizabeth,2,19,78,94,96, 101,117,118,152,159
I
impact of the character of the offender on punishment,96
interest in the skeletons of ethnic minorities,123
Ireland,184,190,194
J
Jacobite Rebellions,196
Jamaica,190 Jeffries, Elizabeth,55 Jodrell, Richard,140
Judges' role and attitudes,59,115, 139,185,187,189
juries' attitudes to murder indictments, 95
K
Kennington,92 Kensington,151 Kent,88,95 King, Peter,90,191 Kingsland,18
L
Lady’s Magazine,130 Lambeth,160
Lancashire,94,95,155 The Lancet,153,159 Leeds,155
Leicester Chronicle,187 Leicester Infirmary,152 Leicestershire,164 Lewisham,151 Lincoln’s Inn Fields,53 Lincolnshire,151
Linebaugh, Peter,20,104 Liverpool,155
London,5,6,18,19,34,45,49,60, 88,90,95,97,117,121,136,147, 192
London Burkers,159
London College of Physicians,20 London Company of Barbers and
Surgeons,19
London Evening Post,53,55 London Gazette,77
London Journal,44
London Magazine,33,39,58,59,61, 77,124,127,130
London Police Bill 1785,138 Lord Chancellor,59,148,161,188 Lord Chief Justice,188
Lord Eldon,148,188,189,192 Lord Ellenborough,148,188,189,
192
Lord Gordon,128
Lord Hardwicke,59,82,102,185,188 Lord Kenyon,162
Lord Lansdowne,154,155,157,168, 188
Lord Loughborough,137–139,141, 148,188
Lord Suffield,165 Lord Tenterden,154,186 Lord Wynford,160–162,164,166 Lucca,53
M
Madan, Martin,191 Manchester Mercury,77 Mandeville, Bernard,33 Matteoni, Francesca,2 McGowen, Randall,4,29,143 Meredith, William,127
Middlesex Journal,19,95,133,135 Mile End,18,19
modes of capital punishment,10 early modern mode,10,195 the long eighteenth-century mode,
198
modern mode,10 Misson, Henri,18 Montesquieu,125,143 moral panic,50,52,63,184 The Moral Reformer,160 Morning Chronicle,122,155 Morning Herald,163,165
Murder Act,4–7,30,56,63,77,93, 96,99,115,116,124,128,133, 139,153,154,169,183,186,194, 199
immediate reactions to,123 longevity of,184
the making of,51 repeal of,159 mutiny,84,93
N
Newgate Calendars,97 non-capital punishments,6
branding,11 castration,31
cutting off of hands,38 half-hanging,131 imprisonment,11,30,35
life imprisonment with hard labour, 6
lifetime sentences to the galleys,35 live amputation experiment on
criminal,132 public chain gangs,35 solitary confinement,6 transportation,6,11,47 whipping,11
work in dockyards,35 Norfolk,16,88
Northampton,119 Northumberland,90 Nourse, Timothy,29,46
O
occupation, impact on post-execution punishment,97
Offences against the Person Act 1828, 154
Old Bailey,19,92,97,100,104,140, 148
Old Bailey Sessions Papers,48 Old England, or The National Gazette,
54
Ollyffe, George,29,41,48 Ordinary of Newgate,123
P
Paley, William,131,143,146 pardon rates,81,83,147 Parke, Judge,164
Parliamentary Select Committee on Anatomy 1828,156
parricide,52,131,152
Peel, Robert,154,158,166,168,187, 192
Pelham administration,52 penal dissection as spectacle,117 penal dissection giving anatomy bad
publicity,157,159 Pentrich Rising,150
petty treason,13,42,55,78,116,141 Pierce, Thomas,132
piracy,13,84,93,105
Pitt, William (the younger),137,142, 145,191
Poole, Steve,147,191
popular aversion to dissection,39 popular hostility to gibbeting,90 post-execution punishment
chronology,84
extended to other offences apart from murder,133
geography,88 Post-Master General,44 Post Office,97
privatization of dissection,152 Professor Guthrie,160
Prussia,194
Q
Quarterly Review,159 Queen Anne,58
R
Radcliffe Highway murders,81 Radzinowicz, Leon,29,104 Rawlings, Philip,13,185 Raynor, Julian,97 Read’s Weekly Journal,53 Recorder of London,126,130 Red Barn murderer,152
Richardson, Ruth,8,21,105,117,157 Riot Act,21
Rogers, Nicholas,51 Romaine, William,124
Romilly, Samuel,143,148–150,189 Royal College of Physicians,19 Royal College of Surgeons,155,160 Royal Cornwall Gazette,164 Rutland,88,100
S
Salford,124
Samuel Whitbread,150,151 Sawday, Jonathan,20,21,117 Scotland,16,41,57,190,195 Scot's Magazine,77
Sedgly, B.,61 Sergeant Adair,140 Shepherd’s Bush,92 Sheriff’s assize calendars,80 Sheriff’s cravings,14,96,98 sheriff’s officers role,21 Sheriff of Cornwall,82 Sibthorpe, Colonel,161 Sir Astley Cooper,156,157
Sir James Mackintosh,156 Sir Richard Vyvyan,161 Sir Robert Inglis,157 smugglers,79,91,105 Solicitor General,144 solitary confinement,145
Spierenburg, Pieter,8,9,12,16,57, 194
St James's Chronicle,144 St. Thomas’s Hospital,21 Suffolk,88,105
suicide,81,133
Surgeons’Hall,39,40,120,129 surgeons' role,82,100,116,121,123,
129,152,153,168
surgeons refusing to dissect,118 Surrey,20,95
Sussex,91
T
Tarlow, Sarah,2,17,78,92,97,101, 103,105
Thames,93
The Times,128,131,135,140,143, 146
Thompson, Commodore,136 Tilbury,19
torture,58
Townsend, John,151 Transportation Act 1717,47 treason,196
Treason Act 1814,150
Tyburn,20,31,38,39,129,131,141, 151
Tyburn riots against the surgeons,20, 51
W
Wales,17,90,95,191,198
Warburton, Henry,154,155,157,158
Ward, Richard,2,9,34,51,52,56,90, 135,137,185,191,193,194 Warwickshire,95
Wellcome Trust,1 Wesley, John,134 West Indies,93,190 Westminster Journal,58 Westmoreland,90 Whichwood Forest,102
Wilberforce, William,6,135,137,140, 152,161
Wild Goose Lodge outrages,190
Wilf, Steven,145 Wilkite riots,134 Wimbledon,151
Wimbledon Common,144 Worcester,154
Wurttemberg,194 Wye’s Letter,35
Y York,120
Yorkshire,88,95,130,137
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