ii. 6-22, 245, 257, 294-304;

a capital crime, 6; effects of this on public feeling, 6; the Bank of England the most implacable prosecutor of forgers, 7; strong feeling against these prosecutions, 8; early forgers--Richard Vaughan, Bank of England notes, 9; Mr. Gibson, a Chancery deed, 9, 10; James Bolland, a bill, 10; the brothers Perreau, a bond for £7500, 11, 12; Dr. Dodd, a bond for £4200, 12-16; Charles Price, _alias_ Old Patch, bank-notes, 17-21; James Elliot and Joshua Crompton, bank-notes, 21, 22; Fauntleroy, 245; Fenn, Rev. Peter, 257; increase in the crime of, 294; career of Fauntleroy, banker, bonds, deeds, &c., 294-300; of Captain Montgomery, bank-notes, 301; of the Quaker, Joseph Hunton, bills of exchange, 302; of Richard Gifford, bank-notes, 304; and of Maynard, Custom House warrant, 304; the latter the last who suffered death for forgery, 304; conflicting legislation on the subject, 305; capital punishment for, finally abolished in 1832, 305, 306; passing fraudulent Exchequer bills by Beaumont Smith, 338; another clerical forger--Rev. W. Bailey, a promissory note, 341; forgery of wills by W. H. Barber, a solicitor, and Joshua Fletcher, a surgeon, 341-343; of false certificates, by Robson, 382-386; of fictitious stock, by Redpath, 386-390; of cheques, &c., by J. T. Saward, 395-398; of cheques and bills, by Wagner and Bateman and their confederates, 454-456; of Bank of England notes, by Burnett, Buncher, and Griffiths, 456-460; of wills, by William Roupell, 462-465; of forged acceptances on the Bank of England, by the Bidwells, Macdonell, and Noyes, 466-469.

FORREST, burning of a friar named, i. 73.

FORRESTER, a detective, his capture of Burgess and of Captain Ker, ii. 344, 347.

FORSTER, Mr., a Jacobite, in Newgate, i. 211; his escape, 214.

FOXE, references to, i. 71-92.

FRAUDS by Government officials, i. 348; ii. 321-325.

FRANCIS, John, attempts the life of the Queen, ii. 289-291.

FRANCIS, Mr., executed for murdering Dangerfield, i. 195.

FRANKLAND, William, case of, for shooting a magistrate, i. 329.

FREEMAN, Mr., in Newgate, i. 223.

FRY, Mrs., her labours in Newgate, i. 18; her first visit, ii. 132-134; her second visit, four years later, 134; first effects of her labours, 137-139; an association formed, work found, and rules drawn up for better regulation of the female prisoners, 138-142; marvellous results of her labours, 142-146.

GALLOWS, description of the new, first used at the Old Bailey, ii. 234, 235; and of the Dublin "engine of death," 235, 236.

GAMING, passion for, and effects of, in London in early part of 18th century, i. 332, _et seq._; gaming hells and their victims, 333-336.

GAOL ACTS, list of various, ii. 149, 154, 155.

GAOL CALENDAR, i. 317-374.

GAOL FEVER, i. 424-453; the result of the foul state of the gaols, 425, 426; condition of the cells, 426; often underground, 426; hardly any light, air, or water, and neither fireplace nor bed, 426, 427; meagre supply of wretched food, 427; debtors almost starved to death, 427; wretched state of prison buildings, 428; list of noblemen and bishops who owned private prisons, 428 _n._; state of Chesterfield Gaol, the property of the Duke of Portland, 428; and of that of Ely, the property of the bishop, 429; overcrowding the cause of gaol fever, 433, 434; nature and effects of, 434, 435; earliest mention of, 436; and of its ravages, 436, 437; Newgate, Oxford, King's Bench Prison, 436; seldom mentioned during the 17th century, 437; three fatal outbreaks during the first half of the 18th century, 437; the first, at Taunton, destroys the Lord Chief Baron, Sir J. Shepherd, J. Piggott, sheriff, and some hundreds besides, 437; the second, at Launceston, occasions the death of numbers, 438; and the third, at Newgate, sweeps away the Lord Mayor, Sir T. Abney and Baron Clark, the judges, Sir D. Lambert, and forty others, 438; the Corporation order an inquiry, 439; a new ventilator adopted, 440; fatal effects of the working of the ventilator, 441; fever still continues, 443; Mr. Akerman's account of its ravages, 443; statistics of, 443; Howard's views on the subject, 444; condemns the construction of the new (present) prison, 445; Dr. Smith reports and condemns the new prison, 445, 446; humanity, bravery, and presence of mind of the keeper, Mr. Akerman, 447-450.

GAOLS and gaolers in early times, i. 1-5; in the 13th century, 7-12; in 1813, 15-17; mode of appointing, and powers and privileges of the gaoler of Newgate, 46; appointments to these offices ultimately made by purchase, 47; Whiston's protest against this abuse, 47, 48; £3000 recorded as the price once paid for the office of keeper of Newgate, 47; and £5000 for that of the Fleet Prison, 47; this is ultimately forbidden by statute, 48; poor inmates of, wholly dependent on charity for support, 51; epidemics and riots in, 53; tortures used in, 74; Alexander of Newgate, type of a brutal gaoler, 80-84; interior of Newgate in Mary's time, 85; arraignment of gaolers for misconduct, 93; case of Crowder of Newgate, 94, 95; a fanatical gaoler, 120; description of the interior of Newgate in 1667, 147-161; two keepers of Newgate brought to book, 162, 163; extortions practised in, 196, 200-204, 207-212; deputy keeper of Newgate committed to the Fleet for allowing a prisoner to escape, 290; mode of obtaining gaolerships and recouping themselves, 431; the extortion of gaol fees, 432; in enforcing them the law openly evaded, 433. See under _Prisons_, _Philanthropy in Newgate_, _Gaol Fever_, &c.

GARDELLE, Theodore, murderer, i. 367-370.

GEE, Mr., a solicitor, the attempt to rob, ii. 314-317.

GENTLEMAN HARRY, two highwaymen so called, ii. 33.

GERARD, Colonel, attempted murder of, i. 140; is executed for conspiring to murder Cromwell, 141 _n._

GERMAN princess, a famous impostor, account of, i. 188-191.

GIBSON, Mr., executed for forging a Chancery deed, ii. 9, 10.

GIFFORD, Richard, executed for forging bank-notes, ii. 304.

GIGGER, the, a hall in Newgate, i. 153.

GILTSPUR STREET Compter, opening of the, i. 19.

GIRL for sale, offering a, ii. 50.

GLOUCESTER Penitentiary, one of the first improved prisons in England, ii. 109 and _n._

GOLD-DUST, clever robbery of, in 1839, ii. 325, 326.

GORDON, Lord George, i. 445 _n._; his birth and profession, 463 and _n._; heads the Protestant Association against the Catholics, 464; attends a gathering in St. George's Fields, 464; and heads a monster procession to present a petition at St. Stephen's, 464; is arrested and committed to the Tower, 474; his trial, 474, 475; declared not guilty, 476; publishes a pamphlet on the condition of the prisoners in Newgate, 476; for which he is indicted at the King's Bench, 477; conducts his own defence, 477-479; found guilty, 479; before sentence the court considers another libel, 479-482; fined and imprisoned in Newgate, 482; where he dies of gaol fever in 1793, 482.

GORDON, the Lord George, riots, i. 15; origin of, 463; the mob proceed to Newgate, 465; threaten the governor, 465; attack the prison and fire the gates, 466, 467; headed by the hangman, John Dennis, 467; they rush into the gaol and release the prisoners, 468-470; Crabbe's account of the attack, 470-472; nearly 500 persons killed and wounded, and fifty-nine rioters executed, 473.

GOW, Captain, a pirate, career of, i. 420-422.

GRIEVE, Harriet, her career as swindler, ii. 40.

GRIFFITHS, forger of bank-notes, ii. 456-460.

GUEST, William, executed for clipping, ii. 22-24.

GUILDFORD Prison, state of, ii. 157.

GUILLOTINE, the, i. 255, 256.

HABEAS CORPUS ACT, proof of how much it was needed, i. 106.

HACKMAN, Rev. James, executed for murder, i. 378-383; his testimony to the humane conduct of the keeper, Mr. Akerman, 450.

HAGGERTY, execution of, for murder, ii. 241.

HAKFORD, John de, punishment of, for false swearing, i. 35.

HALIFAX law, nature of, i. 256.

HALL, Justice, a Jacobite, in Newgate, i. 220.

HALL Ward, the, in Newgate, i. 150.

HANGING, instances of resuscitation after, i. 279-282.

HANGMAN, dialogue between the, and two other officials, i. 207.

HANGMEN and their office, i. 277; list of early--Derreck, Bull, Gregory Brandon, young Brandon, Squire Dun, Jack Ketch, Roose, Price, and Dennis, 278; instances of their bungling, 279; ii. 269-271; objections to Calcraft's method of hanging, 272; expense of obtaining a hangman, 273; account of Calcraft, his character, remuneration, &c., and how he came by the office, 411-415; and of Marwood, 415, 416.

HANSARD _versus_ STOCKDALE, celebrated libel case involving an infringement of the privileges of Parliament, account of, ii. 202, 203 _n._

HARRIS, Phoebe, burned to death before Newgate, ii. 236, 237.

HARROWBY, Lord, the Cato Street conspirators, and the house of, ii. 280.

HATFIELD, attempts the life of George III., ii. 284.

HATTON, Sir Christopher, on the case of Crowder, i. 95.

HAWES, Nathaniel, pressed to death, i. 253.

HAWKESBURY, Lord, allusion to, i. 480 and _n._

HAWKINS, John, butler and highwayman, i. 397-399.

HAWKSWORTH, William, executed for murder, i. 377.

HAYES, Catherine, account of her murder of her husband, i. 350-354.

HENRIETTA MARIA'S attachment to Romanism, i. 111.

HENRY III. and the citizens of London, i. 39-41.

HENRY IV. intrusts the citizens with the custody of Newgate and all other City gates, i. 43.

HENRY VIII.'S time, crime and criminals in, i. 61; he punishes the citizens who took part in the "Evil May-day" rising, 65-67; his religious persecutions, 71-92; his Six Articles, 73.

HICKS, Sir Baptist, notice of, ii. 266 and _n._

HIGH Hall, the, in Newgate, i. 155.

HIGHWAYMEN, number and exploits of, in the 17th century, i. 166-180; Whitney, 170-172; Jack Cottington, 172-175; Claude Duval, 175-177; William Nevison, 177-180; in the 18th century, 397-415; John Hawkins, 397-399; James Maclane, 400-403; William Page, 403; John Rann, 403-406; William Butler, 406; Sir Simon Clarke, 406; William Parsons, 407-410; Paul Lewis, 410; William Belchier, 411; Jonathan Wild, 412-415; Henry Sterne, ii. 33; Henry Simms, 33 _n._

HIGHWAY robbery, prevalence of, in the 17th century, i. 166-180; and in the 18th, ii. 36; suppression of, in the neighbourhood of the metropolis by the horse patrol, 36, 37.

HILL, Sir Rowland, mayor, in 1555, i. 94.

HOGAN, John, execution of, ii. 232.

HOGARTH and Mrs. Brownrigg, i. 374.

HOLLOWAY, execution of, for murder, ii. 241.

HOLLOWAY Prison, erection of, i. 21; ii. 491.

HOOPER, Bishop of Gloucester, persecution of, i. 79, 84.

HORSE patrol, suppression of highway robbery in the neighbourhood of the metropolis by the, ii. 36, 37.

'HOT GOSPELLER,' extract from, on Newgate in Mary's time, i. 84-86.

Houssart, Louis, murderer, i. 359-362.

HOWARD, John, his prison labours, i. 12, 425, 427-430, 432, 433, 436; on the condition of Newgate, 444, 445.

HOWARD, his attempt to rob Mr. Mullay, ii. 312, 313.

HOWELL, Lawrence, case of, for denouncing George I. as a usurper, ii. 55, 56.

HOWSE, butler, transported for robbing his master's plate-chest, ii. 345.

HUGGINS, John, pays £5000 for the keepership of the Fleet Prison for the life of himself and his son, i. 47.

HUNT, convicted for participating in the murder of Mr. Weare, ii. 328, 329.

HUNTON, Joseph, the Quaker, executed for forging bills of exchange, ii. 302, 303.

ILCHESTER Gaol one of the few worthy of commendation before prison reform, ii. 161.

INCONTINENCE and loose living, punishment for, i. 114-116.

INGS, one of the Cato Street conspirators, his reckless demeanour on the gallows, ii. 283.

IRONING prisoners, illegality and cruelty of, i. 429-431.

JACOBITE prisoners in Newgate, i. 207-226; preparations for them, 207, 209; their appearance and reception, 210-212; they live royally, 212-214; escapes, 214; keeper superseded and special officials appointed, 214, 215; a new _régime_ enforced and military guard mounted, 214, 215; attempts to corrupt the guard, and riotous conduct of the prisoners, 216-219; executions, 219-221; news of an amnesty, 224; pardon, 225; escapes of, 309-316.

JACQUES, Robert, account of his attempt to swindle, ii. 43-45.

JAMES, John, his account of the extortions practised in Newgate, i. 195.

JEBB, Sir Joshua, on Newgate, i. 20.

JENKINS, Judge, in Newgate, i. 139.

JESUIT emissaries in Newgate in 1602, i. 97; case of Richardson, 98; escape of seven, 99; more favourably treated under Charles I., 100; account of six Jesuit priests in Newgate, 111.

JOHNSON, a highwayman, shoots a turnkey, i. 329.

JOHNSON, Dr. on Mr. Akerman, the keeper of Newgate, i. 449.

JOINES, Edward, murderer, i. 365.

JONES, Mr. J. Gale, prosecuted by House of Commons, ii. 61, 62.

JONES, Mr. V., prosecuted for frauds on the Exchequer, ii. 63, 64.

JURY, illegal treatment of the, that tried Penn, i. 197.

JUVENILE depravity, general increase in, ii. 45, _et seq._; dens of young thieves, 47; moral contamination of the prison, 48; instances of juvenile precocity in crime, 49, 50.

KER, a sea captain, transported for a diamond robbery, ii. 347.

KERP, one of the Wagner and Bateman gang of forgers, ii. 454-456.

KETCH, Jack, his kitchen in Newgate, i. 155 and _n._

KIDD, Captain, pirate, career of, i. 416-420.

KING'S BENCH Prison, outbreak of gaol fever in, i. 437; state of, for debtors, ii. 78-80.

KING'S BENCH Ward, the, in Newgate, i. 151.

KONIGSMARK, Count, in Newgate, i. 8; account of the murder of Mr. Thynne at his instigation, 182-188.

LAMBETH Palace, burglary at, ii. 312.

LANCASTER, John, his conversion and execution, ii. 118, 119.

LEARY, a precocious juvenile thief, career of, ii. 49, 50.

LEWIS, Lieutenant Paul, execution of, i. 269.

LEWIS, Paul, highwayman, i. 410.

'Liber Albus,' penalties in, against brawling and breaking the peace, i. 28, _et seq._; its account of the procedure at the election of sheriffs, 45.

LILBURNE, Colonel, petition of, from Newgate, i. 134; his trial and acquittal, 136, 137; in the pillory, 237.

LINCOLN, John, a City broker, incites the citizens against foreign workmen, i. 64; for which he suffers death, 66.

'LIVES OF THE MOST REMARKABLE CRIMINALS,' i. 321.

LONDON, Old, Stowe's picture of the insecurity of life in, at the close of the 12th century, i. 26; penal statute of Edward I. against evil-doers in, 27; penalties in the 'Liber Albus' for brawling and breaking the peace in, 28-30; account of various punishments meted out to givers of false weight and short measure, false swearers, slanderers, &c., in, 30-39; Henry III. and the mayor and sheriffs of, 40, 41; a new charter granted to, by Edward III., 41; other privileges and charters granted by the same monarch, 42; dealings of Richard II. with, 43; a new charter granted by Henry IV., which gives the citizens the custody of Newgate and all other City gates, 43; powers and privileges of the sheriffs of, 45-48; dispute between the Corporation and the sheriffs of, regarding the right to appoint the gaoler or keeper of Newgate, 48-51; recapture out of sanctuary of an escaped prisoner by the sheriffs of, 52; the "Evil May-day" rising in, 64-67; religious persecutions in, 71-92; state of, in 1585, 88; mode of training cutpurses in, 88; coney-catching in, 123-129; turbulence of the mob in, 137.

LOTTERIES, State, evils of, i. 336.

LOWER Ward, Newgate, i. 157.

LUNSFORD, Edward, his escape from Newgate, i. 290, 291.

LUPTON, reference to his 'London Carbonadoed,' i. 5.

MACCLESFIELD, Earl of, his venal practices, i. 347.

MACDONELL, forger of acceptances, ii. 466-469.

MACKAY, Alex., executed for the murder of his mistress, ii. 422; the first privately executed at Newgate, ii. 422.

MACKLIN, Charles, the actor, found guilty of manslaughter, i. 390, 391.

MACLANE, James, highwayman, in Newgate, i. 9; account of his career, 400-403.

"MAIDEN, the," i. 255.

MAINE on capital punishment, i. 246.

MAISON DE FORCE, at Ghent, ii. 151.

MAITLAND on the site of Newgate, i. 23; on the "black waggon," or "Evil May-day" rising, 67; on the discovery of thieves, 88.

MALCOLM, Sarah, executed for murder, i. 354-356.

MALDEN, Daniel, his escapes from Newgate, i. 301-308.

MALE debtors' side of Newgate, ii. 68.

'MALEFACTOR'S BLOODY REGISTER,' the, i. 318.

MALPAS, Philip, sheriff of London, his gift to poor prisoners, i. 52; and recapture of an escaped prisoner, 52.

MANNINGS, the, murderers of O'Connor, ii. 359; their antecedents, 360; their victim, 359, 360; the murder, 361; its discovery, 362; their escape, 363; capture, 363; trial, 364, 365; condemnation and execution, 365-367.

MANSFIELD, Lord, his impartiality on the trial of Lord George Gordon, i. 475 and _n._; his opposition to pardoning Dr. Dodd, ii. 16 _n._

MANSLAUGHTER, eminent persons found guilty or acquitted of--James Quin, i. 388; Charles Macklin, i. 390; Joseph Baretti, i. 391-393.

MARLEY, Robert, executed for the murder of R. Cope, ii. 367-369.

MARROW, Ann, pilloried for passing as a man, i. 242.

MARSHAL of the King's Bench Prison, account of the office of, ii. 79.

MARSHALSEA Prison, and of the debtors in, ii. 82-84.

MARWOOD, the hangman, account of, ii. 415, 416.

MARYAN persecutions, i. 79, _et seq._

MASSEY, Captain, case of, tried and executed for involuntary piracy, i. 423.

MASTER felons' side, Newgate, ii. 70; price and privileges of, 98.

MAURITIUS, Bishop of London, preparations of, for building a new cathedral, i. 24.

MAY, a body-snatcher, narrowly escapes hanging, ii. 330-333.

MAYNARD, executed for forging a Custom House warrant, ii. 304; the last person who suffered death for forgery, 304.

MAYOR, Lord, mode of electing, settled, i. 44; an ancient, entertains four sovereigns, 44, 45.

MEAD, the Quaker, in Newgate, i. 196.

MEDIÆVAL NEWGATE, i. 22-59.

MEREDITH, John, case of, committed to Newgate, i. 103.

METEYARD, Mrs., execution of, i. 273.

METEYARDS, the, murderers, i. 370-372.

METROPOLIS, state of crime in the, in the early part of the 18th century, i. 324, _et seq._

MIDDLE Ward, the, Newgate, i. 157.

MIDDLE yard, Newgate, ii. 70.

MIDDLETON, Thomas, committed to Newgate for refusing to be sworn, i. 105.

MILLBANK Penitentiary, erection of i. 19.

MIST, Nathaniel, prosecuted for libel, ii. 56.

MOBBS, executed for murdering his wife, ii. 371.

MOCK trials in Newgate, ii. 96-98.

MODERS, Mary, a famous impostor, account of, i. 188-191.

MONMOUTH, the Duke of, witnesses an execution in Pall Mall, i. 264.

MONTGOMERY, Captain, forging bank-notes, poisons himself, ii. 301.

MONTGOMERY, Lord, a prisoner in Newgate, i. 161.

MORE, Sir Thomas, reference to his 'Utopia,' i. 62; his death, 72; on hanging for theft, ii. 5.

"MOSES, Money," a notorious receiver, conviction of, ii. 326, 327.

"MULLED sack." See _Cottington, Jack_.

MÜLLER, Franz, executed for the murder of Mr. Briggs, ii. 417-419, 448-452.

MUNDAY, Alderman Sir John, and the "Evil May-day" rising, i. 65.

MUTILATION, the punishment of, i. 233.

MURDERS and murderers in London, some of the principal--Richard Savage, i. 339; Major Oneby, 340-344; Marquis de Paleoti, 344, 345; Catherine Hayes, 350-354; Sarah Malcolm, 354-356; John Price (the hangman), 357-359; Louis Houssart, 359-362; Vincent Davis, 362; George Price, 363-365; Edward Joines, 365; John Williamson, 366; Theodore Gardelle, 367-370; the Meteyards (mother and daughter), 370-372; Mrs. Elizabeth Brownrigg, 372-374; Mr. Plunkett, 376; Mr. Edward Bird, 376; William Hawksworth, 377; Rev. James Hackman, 378-383; Governor Wall, 383-388; scene at his execution, and last moments, ii. 238-241; John Hogan, 232; John Sutherland, 233; Charles Palm, 233; Sam Tilling, 233; Holloway, 241; Haggerty, 241; Bellingham, 244; Courvoisier, 245, 262, 263, 348-353; Williams, 267, 268; Thurtell, Hunt, and Probert, 328, 329; Bishop and Williams (the "burkers"), 330-333; Greenacre, 333-336; Daniel Good, 354-356; Hocker, 356-359; the Mannings, 359-367; Marley, 367-369, 427; Mobbs, 371; Barthelemy, 371; Müller, 417-419, 448-452; Wainwright, 426, 470, 471; Catherine Wilson, 427, 441-443; Kate Webster, 427, 469, 471; Alexander Mackay, 422; Christian Sattler, 428, 453.

NEILD, Mr., his prison visitations, ii. 148.

NEVISON, William, highwayman, account of, i. 177-179.

NEWGATE--the first prison, i. 1; its antiquity, 1; its first inmates and their treatment, 1-4; original gate-house gaol part of City fortifications, 4; is restored and improved by Whittington's executors, 4; despotic power of chief gaoler, 5; is rebuilt in 1666, 6; Wren supposed to be the architect, 6; number of divisions in the interior, 6; the press yard and its privileges, 7, 9; prison life in the 17th century, 7-12; public executions and their surroundings, 10-12; the old prison is condemned, 13; the present prison was begun in 1770, 14; George Dance is the architect, 14; was fired by the Lord George Gordon rioters, 15; and afterwards repaired, 15; condition of the inmates in 1813, 15-17; Mrs. Fry's labours in, 18; report of the Government inspectors on, 19, 20; it undergoes various alterations, 21; and serves till 1880, when it was closed, 21; still the metropolitan place of execution, 21.

_Newgate, Mediæval_, i. 22-59; earliest mention of, 22; conjectures regarding its site, 23; and as to its being one of the four original gates of the City, 23; state of mediæval Newgate, 25; and of its inmates, 25; used as a prison for persons of rank before the Tower, 25; and for various offenders against City laws, 26-39; first recorded escape from, 40; consequences of, to the mayor and sheriffs, 40, 41; Henry IV. commits the keeping of Newgate to the citizens, 43; the sheriffs have the custody of the prisoners in, 45; privileges of the sheriffs in reference to prisoners, 45 and _n._; mode of appointing, and powers and privileges of, the gaoler or keeper of, 46; the appointment to the office ultimately becomes purchasable, 47; £3000 recorded as the price once paid for the office, 47; dispute between the sheriffs and the Corporation as to the right to appoint the gaoler of, 48-50; a royal nominee sometimes appointed, 50; dispute between the Lords of the Council and the Corporation on the subject, 50, 51; poor prisoners in, wholly dependent on charity for their support, 51-53; recapture of an escaped prisoner, 52; their wretched condition, 53; transference of all debtors to, 54; a Prayer-Book bequeathed to, 56; Wat Tyler and his followers break into, and set the prisoners free, 57; Whittington leaves money for rebuilding, 58; various repairs made at different times on the third edifice, 59.

_Newgate in the Sixteenth Century_, i. 60-95; starting-point for the promenade to the pillory, 63; the "Evil May-day" prisoners, 64-67; the murders of Roderigo the Spaniard, 69; poor debtors in, 69, 70; prisoners for conscience' sake in, 71-92; Alexander, keeper of Newgate in Mary's time, type of a brutal gaoler, 80-84; description of, in Mary's time, 85; nature of the prisoners in Edward's reign, 86-89; religious prisoners in Elizabeth's time, 89-92; and political prisoners, 92; condition of the prisoners during the 16th century, 92-95; inquiry into the conduct of Crowder, the gaoler in Elizabeth's time, 94.

_Newgate in the Seventeenth Century, down to the Great Fire_, i. 96-142; Jesuit emissaries in, in 1602, 97; license allowed to, 99; escape of seven, 99; favour shown to, by Charles I., 100; case of Thomas Coo, over twenty years in, 101; sufferings and petitions of other poor wretches in, 101-106; conditional pardons issued to certain prisoners, 106-108; petitions of others for release, 108, 109; Jesuit priests and Irish friars in, 112; prisoners for infringing sanitary laws, 113; and for incontinence and loose living, 114-116; for religious fanaticism, rioting, and forging, 116-119; condition of the prisoners, tyranny of the keeper, and extortion of the understrappers in, 119-123; the "Dogge Tavern" in, 121; petitions from prisoners in, during the Long Parliament, 130-138; Royalist prisoners in, 138-140; brother of the Portuguese ambassador in, 140; aristocratic prisoners in, 141.

_Newgate in the Seventeenth Century, after the Great Fire_, i. 143-198; refaced and refronted, 143; destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, 144; how rebuilt, 144; the façade, 144; description of the position and interior of the 1667 prison, 147-161; general divisions of, 148; the felons' cell, 150; the master debtors' side, 150-152; the master felons' side, 152; the common side for debtors, 153-157; Jack Ketch's kitchen, 155 _n._; the common felons' side, 157-159; the press yard and castle, 159-161; the chapel, 160; wretched condition of the inmates, 161; suicide frequent, 162; two keepers brought to book, 162, 163; clippers and coiners in, 164-166; highwaymen in, 166-180; abductors in, 180, _et seq._; Count Konigsmark and the German Princess in, 182-191; Titus Oates and Dangerfield, 192-195; extortion to which prisoners were subjected, 196; Quakers in, 196; Romish priests and laymen in, 198; the press yard, its extent, privileges, extortions, and inmates, 199-207; Jacobite prisoners in, 207-226; spotted fever in, 223; Rob Roy in, 226; executions from, and scenes at, 231-285; escapes from, 286-316; calendars of, 317-321; murderers confined in, 338-388; Quin, Macklin, and Baretti in, 388-393; highwaymen in, 397-415; pirates in, 415-423; gaol fever and its ravages in, 424-450; life in, 450; the sexes intermixed, 451; debauchery, gaming, drunkenness, moral contamination, 451; prisoners subjected to experiments, 452; they take military service to escape from, 453.

_Newgate--the New Gaol_, i. 454-474; ii. 2-64; preliminary proceedings, i. 455, _et seq._; density of prison population, 455 _n._; destruction of the press yard by fire, 459; and two of the inmates burned, 459; preparations for the erection of a new gaol, 460; estimate of the cost, 461, 462; foundation stone laid by Lord Mayor Beckford, 463; the Lord George Gordon riots, 463; the mob proceed to Newgate, 465; threaten the governor, 465; attack the prison, and fire the gates, 466, 467; they are headed by the hangman, John Dennis, 467; they rush into the gaol and release the prisoners, 468-470; Crabbe's account of the attack, 470-472; some of the released prisoners voluntarily return, 473; others are recaptured, 473; keys of, found in St. James's Square, 483; £10,000 voted by Parliament for repairing damage done by the rioters, 483; state of crime at the opening of the new gaol, ii. 2-4; forgers in, 6-22; clippers and coiners in, 22-27; street robbers and pickpockets, 31-36; swindlers and sharpers, 38-44; juvenile criminals, 44-50; victims of the Press laws, 54-62; Government officials, 62-64; the Marquis of Sligo in, 64.

_Newgate down to 1818_, ii. 66-230; still overcrowded, 67; statistics as to the number of prisoners in, at given times, 67; description of the interior as it was occupied in 1810, 68; the male debtors' side, 68; the female debtors' side, 69; the chapel yard, 69; the middle yard, 70; the master felons' side, 70; the state side, 71; the press yard, 71; the female felons' side, 72; sanitary and other conveniences, 73; description of the debtors' side and of their daily life there, 68-91; of the criminal side, 92, _et seq._; classification of inmates, 92-94; contaminating influences of indiscriminate association, 94-96; mock trials in, 96, 97; cost and privileges of the master's side, 98; and of the state side, 99-101; lunatics in, 99 and _n._; the female felons' wards, 101; the new press yard the receptacle for male condemned prisoners, 101; number, treatment, and accommodation of the condemned, 101-104; ill-treatment of prisoners in, 104-106; visitors to Newgate searched, 106 _n._; "bad money," explanation of the phrase, 107; indiscriminate admission leads to frightful consequences, 106-108; the Corporation make inquiries regarding improvements in, 109; and propose certain stringent reforms in, 110-113; absence of any religious or moral instruction in, 114; and indifference of the ordinaries generally, 115; philanthropic labours of outsiders on behalf of the prisoners in, 116-126; specimen of a Newgate ordinary, 127-130; efforts of the Philanthropic Society and other institutions on behalf of the prisoners in, 130-132; Mrs. Fry's labours amongst the female prisoners in, 132-142; and its wonderful results, 142-146; improvements introduced into, 162; visits of the prison inspectors to, and their report on, 191; general condition of, 191-196; the power and tyranny of the wardsmen, 196-198; incompetency of the governor, Mr. Cope, 199; a nursery of crime, 201; literature of, 202; drinking, feasting, and fighting in, 204-207; indiscriminate admission of visitors, 208; abuses on the female side, 208-212; labours of the Ladies' Association, 211; condition of the condemned, 213-215; indiscriminate association and brutal callousness of, 215; Newgate tokens and their value in the eyes of the criminal classes, 215 and _n._; lunatics in, 217-219; abuses of the state side revived, 220, 221; utter lack of discipline in, 221-224; severity of the inspectors' remarks on the state of, 224, 225; some improvements introduced, 225-227; inspectors still complain, 227-230; becomes the place of public execution, 233; first executions, 233; description of the new gallows at, 234; Phoebe Harris burned to death at, 236; scene at the execution of Governor Wall, 238-241; shocking catastrophe and loss of life at the execution of Holloway and Haggerty, 241; executions of Bellingham, 244; Fauntleroy, 245; and Courvoisier at, 245; scenes at, and description of an execution at, 245-249; treatment of the condemned after sentence and up to execution, in, 249-252; account of the Sunday service in, when the condemned sermon was preached, 255-260; and of another religious service, the formal thanks of the reprieved, 260-262; crowded and fashionable congregation at, to hear Courvoisier's condemned sermon, 262; and dense crowd at his execution, 263; shocking exhibitions at executions at, 269-272.

NEWGATE NOTORIETIES, ii. 274-473; the Cato Street conspirators in, and their execution in front of it, 278-284; criminals in, for attempts on the life of the sovereign, 284-293; for forgery, 294-304; for abduction, 306-311; for robbery, 312-317; Ikey Solomons, a notorious receiver, in, 317-321; for bullion robberies, 321-325; for diamond robberies, 322-325; for that of gold-dust, 325-327; murderers in--Thurtell, Hunt, and Probert, 328; Bishop and Williams, 330-333; Greenacre, 333-336; the Wallaces for wilful shipwreck, 338-341; forgers--Rev. W. Bailey, LL.D., 341; W. H. Barber and Joshua Fletcher, 341-343; Burgess, a clerk in the Bank of England, for defrauding it of £8000, 343-345; Howse, for robbing his master's plate-chest, 345; Ker, for robbing diamonds, 347; murderers--Courvoisier, 348-353; Daniel Good, 354-356; Hocker, 356-359; the Mannings, 359-367; Robert Marley, 367-369; Cannon, for a murderous attack on a constable, 370; Mobbs, for murder, 371; and E. Barthelemy for murder, 371; perpetrators of gigantic frauds--W. Watts, 371-375; commits suicide in, 375; R. F. Pries, 376; J. W. Cole, Maltby and Co., and Davidson and Co., 377-379; Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Bates, 379-382; Robson, 382-386; L. Redpath, 386-390; the perpetrators of the great gold robbery on the South-Eastern Railway, 386-390; J. T. Saward, the forger, and his confederates, 395-398; various successful and unsuccessful attempts at escape from, 339-409; suicides in, 409, 410; demeanour of condemned murderers in, 424-429; poisoners in, 431-443; pirates and murderers, 444-453; of forgers, 454-469; the 'Lennie' mutineers, 472; a few lesser celebrities, 473.

NEWGATE REFORMED, ii. 475-503; movement for prison reform, 475; Pentonville 'model' prison built, 476; the reform movement extends to the provinces, 477; cost of prison erection, 478; views as to prison discipline--silence _versus_ separation, 478-480; difference of treatment in different prisons, 481; Mr. Pearson's committee on uniformity of discipline, 482; his system explained, 483; attention again attracted to Newgate, 485; old evils still prevalent, 486; minor improvements introduced, 487; Lord John Russell's suggestion as to the reconstruction of Newgate, 488; new City prison erected at Holloway, 491; Newgate rebuilt internally, 492; last inquiry into the condition of prisons by the Lords Committee in 1863, 493; diversity of treatment still the rule, 494; the question of beds, 495; objectionable condition of the minor borough prisons, 495-497; provisions of the Prisons Act of 1865, 497-500; penalties of the Act against local authorities seldom enforced, 501; the Bill of 1877 transfers the prisons to the Government, and Newgate is closed, 502.

NEWGATE Calendars, i. 317; their editors and publishers, 318; compiled from sessions papers, 319; demand for, caused by prevalence of crime, 321.

NICHOLSON, Margaret, attempts the life of George III., ii. 284.

"NIGHT-WALKERS," laws and ordinances against, in old London, i. 28, 29.

NOBLEMEN, list of, who owned prisons, i. 428 _n._

NORTON, William, captures a highwayman, i. 411.

NOYES, forger of acceptances, ii. 466-469.

OATES, Titus, the informer, account of, i. 192-194.

OGLE, Captain, burned to death in Newgate, i. 459.

OGLE, Lady, i. 182, 187.

OLD BAILEY becomes the place of public execution, i. 283.

ONEBY, Major, case of, for murder, i. 340-344.

ORDINARY of Newgate, duties and privileges of the, i. 273, _et seq._; general indifference of ordinaries to the welfare of the prisoners, ii. 115; specimen of an, 127-130.

ORFORD, Lord, and the suppression of piracy, i. 417-420.

OVERTON, Richard, petition for the release of, from Newgate, i. 133.

OXFORD, attempts the life of the Queen, ii. 285-289.

OXFORD, outbreak of gaol fever at, i. 436; the Black Assize at, 436.

PAGE, William, highwayman, i. 403.

PAINE, Tom, imprisoned for his rationalistic writings, ii. 56.

PALEOTI, the Marquis de, case of, for murdering his servant, i. 344.

PALL MALL, execution of the murderers of Mr. Thynne in, i. 264.

PALM, Charles, execution of, ii. 233.

PALMER, trial of, for poisoning Cook, ii. 432-439.

PANTALEON SA, Don, in Newgate for murder, i. 149.

PARKHURST, Nathaniel, execution of, i. 270.

PARSONS, William, highwayman, i. 407-410.

PATCH, Old. See _Price, Charles_.

PATE, Lieut., attempts the life of the Queen, ii. 292, 293.

PAUL, Parson, a Jacobite, in Newgate, his execution, i. 220 and _n._

PEARSON, Mr., his committee on prison management, ii. 482.

PEEL, Mr., on small local prisons, ii. 177; his Bill for the abolition of capital punishment for forgery, 305.

PEERS, prosecutions for libels on, ii. 60, 61.

PEMBERTON, Lord Chief Justice, i. 186.

PENAL code, effects of a ruthless, ii. 2-6.

PENEDO, cruel punishment of, in the pillory, i. 235.

PENN in Newgate, i. 198.

PENTONVILLE model prison erected, ii. 476.

PEPYS' account of Colonel Turner's execution, i. 261.

PERCIE, Sir T., in Newgate, i. 26.

PERREAU, the brothers, executed for forging a bond, ii. 11, 12.

PETTY, Sir William, resuscitates a woman who had been hanged, i. 280.

PETTY treason, the crime of, and punishment for, i. 353 _n._; victims of, 354.

PETWORTH Prison, one of the first improved prisons in England, ii. 109 and _n._

PHILANTHROPIC Society, the, effort of, on behalf of the prisoners in Newgate, ii. 130, 131.

PHILANTHROPY IN NEWGATE, ii. 114-146; absence of any religious or moral instructions in, 114; indifference of the ordinaries generally, 115; interview of the chaplain, Mr. Smith, with one of the condemned, 115; efforts of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge on behalf of the prisoners, 116; labours of Silas Told, 117; his story of John Lancaster and his conversion, 118, 119; he meets with opposition from the ordinary and the turnkeys, 120; but is not to be repressed, 121; his account of the execution of Mary Edmonson, 121-124; and of the amateur highwaymen, 124-126; he visits Mrs. Brownrigg, 126; visits of Alexander Cruden, 126; mode in which an ordinary (Rev. Brownlow Forde, LL.D.) discharged his duties, 127; disorderly conduct at the services, 128; Dr. Forde's opinion of the self-denying labours of others, 129; the doctor more in his element in the chair at a "free-and-easy," 130; efforts of the Philanthropic Society and other institutions, 130, 131; and of Mr. Cotton, the new ordinary, 131, 132; Mrs. Fry's first visit, 132; condition of the female prisoners, 133; extract from her diary on the subject, 134; her second visit, four years later, 134; condition of the female inmates then, 135; barbarous treatment to which they were subjected, 136, 137; first effects of Mrs. Fry's labours, 137-139; formation of an association for the improvement of the female prisoners, 138; a matron appointed, 139; work found and new rules drawn up for the regulation of the female prisoners, 140-142; marvellous results, 142-144; the great crowd to Newgate to see the change, 145; influence of the Ladies' Association on prison reform generally, 146.

PHILLIPS, Thomas, pressed to death, i. 253.

PHILPOT, Master, persecution of, i. 81, _et seq._

PICARD, Henry, Lord Mayor, entertains four sovereigns, i. 42.

PIE powder, privilege of holding courts of, granted to the City, i. 42; confirmed by Edward IV., 44.

PIERCE, the designer of the gold robbery on the South-Eastern Railway, ii. 391-395.

PILLORY, use of, in old London, i. 30, _et seq._; foresworn jurors and ringleaders of false inquests consigned to the, 63; Oates in the, 193; the punishment of the, 235; distinguished victims of the, 237-239; finally abolished in 1837, 239.

PIRATES and piracy, prevalence of, and mischief done by, i. 415, 416; one (Captain Roberts) took 400 sail, 416; expedition fitted out to capture and suppress, 417; disastrous result of, 417-419; Captain Kidd and his career, 417-420; career of Captain Gow, 420-422; the treatment of the crews of captured ships by, 422; the case of Captain Massey, tried and executed for involuntary piracy, 423; the 'Flowery Land' pirates, ii. 417; the 'Lennie' mutineers, 472.

PITT, Mr., governor of Newgate, i. 202, 209; attached on a charge of high treason, 214; is tried, acquitted, and restored, 221; again unfortunate, 221.

PLAGUE, punishment for careless dealing with, i. 113.

PLUNKETT, Mr., executed for murder, i. 376.

POISONING and poisoners, ii. 431, _et seq._; early instances of, 431; trial of Palmer for poisoning Cook, 432-439; of Dr. Smethurst for poisoning Miss Bankes, 439-441; of Catherine Wilson for wholesale poisoning, 441-443; of Christina Edmunds for the wife of a man for whom she had conceived a guilty passion, 471; the cases of Bravo, Lamson, and Kate Dover, 472.

POISONING punished by burning alive, i. 62, 63.

POPE, Mr., police officer, captures a highwayman, i. 410.

PORTER, John, imprisoned by Bonner for reading the Bible in St. Paul's, i. 74-76.

POWELL, Edward, a rioter, case of, i. 117.

POYNTZ, Sir Nicholas, his escape from Newgate, i. 290.

PRAYER-BOOK specially bequeathed to Newgate, i. 56.

PRESSING to death, the punishment of, i. 38, 250.

PRESS laws, severity of the, at the beginning of the 18th century, ii. 54, 55; case of Lawrence Howell for denouncing George I. as a usurper, 55; of Nathaniel Mist for commenting on the action of George I. as to the Protestants in the Palatinate, 56; Tom Paine for his rationalistic writings, 56; William Rowland for remarks on the conduct of two magistrates, 57; libels in the 'Craftsman,' 57; Dr. Shebbeare fined, pilloried, and imprisoned for his 'Sixth Letter to the English People,' 57; Wilkes and the 'North Briton' and the 'London Evening Post,' 57; oppression of the Press under George III., 59; Mr. Walter and the 'Times,' 59; prosecutions for libels on peers, 60; and on the House of Commons, 61, 62.

PRESS yard, the, in Newgate, and its privileges, i. 7, 9; its extent, 149, 150; the division of Newgate so called, 159-161; intended originally for State prisoners, 199; deemed to be part of the governor's house, 199; a fiction for extorting fees, 200; account of the extortion practised, 200-204; accommodation and customs of the inmates, 205-207; destruction of the, by fire, 459; two of the inmates burned, 459; state of the, in 1810, ii. 71, 72; brutal indifference of the inmates of, 213, 215.

PRICE, Charles, bank-note forger, ii. 17; remarkable career of, 18-20; hangs himself, 21.

PRICE, Evan, a religious lunatic, case of, i. 116.

PRICE, George, murderer, i. 363-365.

PRICE, John, murderer, i. 357-359.

PRIESTS, seminary, persecution of, by Elizabeth, i. 89-92.

PRISON DISCIPLINE SOCIETY, formation of, ii. 150, 165, 166; Sydney Smith's opposition to, 166; further efforts of the Society, 167, _et seq._

PRISONER for a penny, a, ii. 77.

PRISONERS and prison life in Newgate in early times, i. 2-4; in the 17th century, 7-12; in 1813, 15-17; powers and privileges of the head gaolers or keepers in reference to, 5, 46-48; poor prisoners wholly dependent on charity for their support, 51; various gifts bequeathed to, 51, 52; all food forfeited given to, 53; epidemics, 53; riots and outbreaks, 53; condition of, in 16th century, 60-62; benefit of clergy claimed and abused by, 62; treatment of religious and political prisoners, 71-92; condition of, during the 16th century, 92-95; sufferings and petitions of poor prisoners in the earlier part of the 17th century, 101-105; conditional pardons granted to certain prisoners, 106-108; petitions of various, 108, 109, 130-138; account of the Jacobite prisoners in Newgate, 207-226; spotted fever breaks out amongst, 223; rejoicings amongst, at an amnesty, 224; loading prisoners with irons illegal, 429; cruel nature of the punishment, 430; John Wilkes's letter on the subject, 430, 431; capricious mode of practising the infliction, 431 _n._; avarice the primary cause of the ill-treatment of prisoners, 431; monstrous extortion of gaol fees, 432; ravages amongst, from gaol fever, 424-450; moral contamination of, from inter-mixture of the sexes, debauchery, gaming, and drunkenness, 450, 451; they are subjected to experiments, 452; take military service to escape, 453; density of the prison population, 455; various kinds of, in Newgate, ii. 6-64; statistics of, 67; condition of, in Newgate in 1810, 68-104; ill-treatment of, 104-106; demoralized condition of, 106-108; certain stringent reforms proposed for, 110-113; absence of any religious or moral instruction for, 114; indifference of the ordinaries generally, 115; philanthropic efforts on behalf of, 116-126; specimen of a Newgate ordinary, the Rev. Brownlow Forde, 127-130; efforts of the Philanthropic Society and other institutions on their behalf, 130-132; Mrs. Fry's labours amongst the female prisoners, 132-141; their marvellous results, 142-146. See also _Prison Reform_; _Prisons, the First Report of the Inspectors of_; _Philanthropy in Newgate_; and _Newgate Reformed_.

PRISON REFORMS, THE BEGINNINGS OF, ii. 147-186; Mrs. Fry's labours lead to prison reform generally, 148; Mr. Neild's visitation, 148; neglect of prisons not the fault of the legislature, 149; various Gaol Acts in force, 149; formation of the Prison Discipline Society, 150; Mr. Buxton's labours on behalf of prisoners, 151, _et seq._; prisoners' rights, 151-153; legal authority for them, 153-155; classification of prisoners, 155; state of various prisons throughout the kingdom, 156, _et seq._; foulness and overcrowding in the Borough Compter, 156; Guildford Prison, 157; ironing of prisoners, 158 _n._; shocking state of Bristol Gaol, 158-160; the "Pit," 159; a few exceptions to this, 160; Bury St. Edmunds, a model prison, 160, 161; Ilchester Gaol also commendable, 161; improvements introduced into Newgate, 162; moral deterioration of prisoners, 164; chain gangs in the streets, 165; "caravans" for conveying prisoners introduced, 166; Sydney Smith's opposition to prison reform, 166, 167; defective nature of prison architecture, 169-171; new gaol legislation, 171, 172; Prison Discipline Society sees to its enforcement, 172-174; borough prisons the worst, 173, 174, 178, 179; slow progress of reform, 174, 175; shocking state of the New Prison, Clerkenwell, 175; want of uniformity of treatment, 176; small local prisons an impediment to reform, 177-180; Newgate remains unaffected by the prison laws, 180-182; committees of both Houses of Parliament appointed to inquire into prison reform, 182, 183; their recommendations on the subject, 184-186.

PRISONS, THE FIRST REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF, ii. 187-230; inspectors appointed in 1835, 188; Mr. W. Crawford is one--his antecedents, 189; the Rev. Whitworth Russell the other, 190; their visits to Newgate, and their report on it, 191; the condition of the prison as bad as before, 191-193; the governor, Mr. Cope, to blame for this, 193; wretched condition of the prisoners, 194-196; power and tyranny of the wardsmen, 196-198; incompetency of the governor, Mr. Cope, 199, 200; Newgate a nursery of crime, 201; prison literature, 202; drinking, feasting, and fighting in, 204-206; accidents arising from this, 206; riots, 207; other violations of the Gaol Acts, 207; indiscriminate admission of visitors, 208; abuses on the female side, 208-212; labours of the Ladies' Association, 211; condition of the condemned, 213-215; indiscriminate association of, 215; their brutal callousness, 215; a child of nine condemned to death, 215 _n._; Newgate tokens, and their importance in the eyes of the criminal classes, 215 and _n._; the inspectors censure the conduct of the ordinary, 216; lunatics in, 217-219; gentlemen concerned in bribery cases committed to Newgate, 219; abuses of the state side revived, 220, 221; utter lack of discipline in Newgate, 221-224; severity of the inspectors' remarks on the state of Newgate, 224, 225; the Corporation protest, but attempt to reform, 225; nature of the improvements, 226, 227; in succeeding reports the inspectors still complain, 227-230.

PRISONS Act of 1865, provisions of the, ii. 497-500; and of 1877, 502.

PRISONS, list of noblemen and bishops who owned, i. 428 _n._

PRIZE-FIGHTING and its aristocratic patrons, ii. 53.

PROBERT, participates in the murder of Mr. Weare, ii. 328; turns approver, 329; hanged for horse-stealing, 328.

PROTESTANTS, persecutions of, in the 16th century, i. 71-92.

PRYNNE, release of, from prison, i. 130.

PRYNNE in the pillory, i. 236, 237.

PUNISHMENTS, early forms of, i. 232, _et seq._

QUAKERS in Newgate, i. 196; Penn and Mead, and their unjust treatment, 196, 197.

QUEEN, attempts on the life of the. See _Sovereign, attempts on the life of the_.

QUIN, James, the actor, found guilty of manslaughter, i. 388.

RANN, John, highwayman, execution of, i. 269; account of his career, 403-406.

RATCLIFFE, Mr., his escape from Newgate, 314; recapture and execution, 315, 316.

RAVAILLAC, the punishment of, i. 249.

REBELS, Jacobite, in Newgate, account of the, i. 207-226.

RECEIVER of stolen property, career of a notorious, Ikey Solomons, ii. 317-321; Sir James Stephen recommends capital punishment for those repeatedly convicted, 317 _n._; conviction of "Money Moses," another notorious receiver, and a direct descendant of Ikey, 326, 327.

RECORDER'S report, terrible suspense of the condemned and their friends in waiting for the, ii. 252.

RELIGIOUS persecutions in the 16th century, i. 71-92.

RERESBY, Sir John, i. 183.

RESOLUTION Club, a gang of robbers, account of, i. 328.

RESURRECTION men and their doings, ii. 51, 330-333, 460-462.

RESUSCITATION after hanging, instances of, i. 279-282.

RICHARD II. oppresses the citizens, i. 43.

RICHARDSON, W., a Jesuit, trial and execution of, i. 98.

RIOTS, street, i. 393; the footmen's, 394-397.

ROARERS, account of the, and of their punishment, in old London, i. 29.

ROBBERIES, impunity with which they were committed in the 18th century, ii. 31; daring nature of, 31-35.

ROBBERY, highway, prevalence of, in the 17th century, i. 166-180; in London in the early part of the 18th century, 324, _et seq._; Fielding on, 326; instances of, with violence, ii. 312-317; of bullion from the Custom House, 321; of diamonds, 322-325; burglaries, 325; of gold-dust, 325-327; of banks and royal palaces, 345; of Lord Fitzgerald's plate-chest, 345; of clubs by a member, 346; of diamonds by a sea captain, 347.

ROBERTS, Captain, pirate, i. 416.

ROB ROY in Newgate, i. 226.

ROGERS, John, his persecution and burning, i. 79.

ROMAN CATHOLICS, persecutions of, in the 16th century, i. 71-92.

ROMILLY, Sir Samuel, his efforts to ameliorate the criminal law, ii. 5.

ROUPELL, William, his will forgeries, ii. 462-465.

ROWLAND, William, prosecuted for libel, ii. 57.

ROYALIST prisoners in Newgate, i. 138-140.

RUSSELL, Lord John, on prison reform, ii. 488.

RUSSELL, Lord William, murder of, ii. 348-353.

RUSSELL, Rev. W., inspector of prisons, i. 19.

RYAN, Matthew, last person pressed to death, i. 254.

SACKVILLE, Edward, in Newgate, i. 141.

ST. GILES'S BOWL, i. 11, 271.

ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND, sanctuary of, i. 52 and _n._

SANCTUARY of St. Martin's-le-Grand, i. 52 _n._; advantage of, to those who fled to, i. 61 and _n._

SATTLER, Christian, executed for murdering a police inspector, ii. 428, 453.

SAVAGE, Richard, tried and condemned for murder, case of, i. 339.

SAWARD, J. T., forgeries of, and his confederates, ii. 395-398.

SCOTT, a highwayman, attempted escape of, i. 309.

SELWYN, George, i. 12; his craving for executions, 265, 266.

SEMINARY priests, persecution of, in Elizabeth's time, i. 89-92.

SHEBBEARE, Dr., in the pillory, i. 237.

SHEBBEARE, Dr., prosecutes for libel, ii. 57.

SHEPPARD, Jack, scene at his execution, i. 268; his escapes from Newgate, 294-299; his celebrity, 298, 299; and trial, 300.

SHEPPARD, James, a Jacobite, scene at the execution of, i. 275.

SHERIFFS of old London, mode of electing, i. 45; their powers as to Newgate, 45, 46; and privileges as to prisoners, 45 and _n._; the "Sheriffs' Fund," origin and use of, 45 _n._; dispute between the, and the Corporation as to the right to appoint the gaoler or keeper of Newgate, 48-50; recapture of an escaped prisoner by the, 52.

SHIP-MONEY, commitments to Newgate for non-payment of, i. 109.

SHIPWRECK, wilful, of heavily-insured ships, ii. 338-341.

SILK, Captain, a Jacobite, in Newgate, i. 213, _et seq._

SIX Articles of Henry VIII., persecutions for infringement of, i. 73, _et seq._

SIXTEEN String Jack, execution of, i. 269.

SKEFFINGTON'S gyves, i. 75.

SLIGO, the Marquis of, imprisoned in Newgate, ii. 64, 65.

SMETHURST, Dr., trial of, for poisoning Miss Bankes, ii. 439-441.

SMITH, Dr., his report on Newgate, i. 445.

SMITH, Sydney, opposed to wholesale prison reforms, ii. 166, 167.

SMITH, Thomas, burned to death in Newgate, i. 459.

SOCIETY for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, efforts of, on behalf of prisoners in Newgate, ii. 116.

SOLOMONS, Ikey, a notorious receiver, account of the career of, ii. 317-321.

SOMERS, Lord, and the suppression of piracy, i. 417-420.

SOUTHWARK, the bailiwick of, granted to the City, i. 42; confirmed by Edward IV., 44.

SOVEREIGN, attempts on the life of the--Margaret Nicholson on George III., ii. 284; Hatfield on George III., 284; John Collins on William IV., 284; Oxford on the Queen, 285-289; John Francis on the Queen, 289-291; John William Bean on the Queen, 291, 292; Lieutenant Pate on the Queen, 292, 293.

SPIGGOT, William, pressed to death, i. 253.

SPINOLA, Benedict, petition against, i. 70 and _n._

STATE side, Newgate, ii. 71; price and privileges of, 99.

STEPHEN, Sir James, recommends capital punishment for repeatedly convicted receivers, ii. 317 _n._

STERNE, Henry, robs the Duke of Beaufort of his "George," ii. 33.

STOCKDALE _versus_ HANSARD, celebrated libel case involving an infringement of the privileges of Parliament, account of, ii. 202, 203 _n._

STOCKS, the punishment of the, i. 240.

STONE Hall, the, in Newgate, i. 153.

STONE Hold, Newgate, i. 157.

STONE Ward, the, in Newgate, i. 151.

STOWE on the site of Newgate, i. 23-25; note in Thom's edition of, 61 _n._

STRANGULATION, the punishment of, i. 256.

STRANGWAYS, Major, pressed to death, i. 251.

STREET riots frequent, i. 393; and robberies, ii. 28-32.

SURGEONS' Hall, site of, ii. 265; bodies of murderers taken thither for dissection, 265.

SUTHERLAND, John, execution of, ii. 233.

SWAINSON, a Dane, executed for the abduction of Miss Rawlins, an heiress, i. 181.

SWINDLERS and sharpers, careers of some of the principal--the German Princess,