The Complete Newgate Calendar
Volume I
Contents
Preface
[ v]
Thomas
Dun
[01]
Head of a gang of outlaws, on account of whom King
Henry I.
is credibly supposed to have built Dunstable. Executed
piecemeal.
Sir
Gosselin Denville
[07]
Head of a gang of robbers who had the audacity, so it is
said,
to hold up King Edward II.
Alice
Arden of Feversham
[13]
Executed with her lover Mosbie and others in the year 1551
for the murder of her husband.
Lord
Stourton and Four of His Servants [24]
Executed 6th of March, 1556, for the murder of William
Hartgill, Esq., and his son John, of Kilmington, Somerset,
after an implacable persecution.
Thomas
Wynne
[29]
Housebreaker and palacebreaker, whom conscience made con-
fess a murder twenty years afterwards. Executed in the reign
of Queen Elizabeth.
Alister
MacGregor
[34]
Who, for slaughtering the Laird of Luss's friends, caused
the
name of Macgregor to be abolished. Executed in 1604.
Robert
Creighton, Baron of Sanquire
[36]
Executed in 1612 for the murder of John Turner, who had
accidentally put out one of his eyes.
Sawney
Beane
[37]
An incredible monster who, with his wife, lived by murder
and canibalism in a cave. Executed in Leith with his
whole
family in the reign of James I.
Thomas Witherington, Jonathan Woodward
[42]
and James Philpot
Who, in the reign of King James I., were the first to hear
the exhortation of the bellman of St Sepuchre's.
Arthur Norcott and Mary Norcott, His
[46]
Mother
Executed on 1629 for the murder of the former's wife after
the test of touching the body.
Walter
Tracey
[50]
To
whom is attributed a poetic encounter with Ben Jonson.
Executed in 1634 after a robbery on the Duke of Buck-
ingham.
Sawney
Cunningham
[55]
An abandoned villain who inveigled and murdered his wife's
lover, murdered his uncle, terrorised the country-side, and was
executed at Leith, 12th of April, 1635.
Isaac Atkinson
[75]
A highwayman
who specialised in robbing lawyers. Hanged
at Tyburn in 1640.
Patrick
Flemming
[80]
An Irish highwayman who held away near the Bog of Allen and,
after numerous murders, was executed on 24th of April, 1650.
Captain Zachary Howard
[84]
A Royalist who lost his estates and turned highwayman.
Executed
1652.
Captain James Hind
[92]
Famous highwayman who robbed Roundheads and even made
an attempt on Cromwell. Executed 24th of September, 1652.
Captain Phillip Stafford
[105]
Whose patrimony being sequestered by the Roundheads, took
to the highway and was hanged at Reading.
Major George Strangwayes
[116]
Executed 28th of February, 1658, for the murder of the man
who married his sister.
Gilder-Roy
[126]
A most barbarous murderer of his mother and sister, who led
a bloodthirsty gang of outlaws in Scotland and hanged a judge.
Executed in April, 1658.
Thomas Gray
[131]
Nephew to the Exeter hangman, who turned thief and high-
wayman, and ended by marrying an heiress. His autobio-
graphy written about 1660.
John, Richard, and Joan Perry
[150]
Mother and sons, executed in 1661 on the false statement of
the first for the alleged murder of Mr. William Harrison, who
appeared alive two years after strange adventures.
Colonel James Turner
[158]
A spendthrift London merchant, against whom three robberies
from
other merchants were proved. Executed 21st of January,
1663.
Moses Drayne
[161]
Ostler, hanged at Brentwood in 1667 for the murder (by a
Chelmford innkeeper and his family some years before) of
Thomas Kidderminster, a guest.
Mary Frith; Otherwise Moll Cutpurse
[169]
A famous master-thief
and an ugly, who dressed like a man,
and died in 1663.
Sawny Douglas
[179]
A Scottish highwayman who laid England under toll, and
took a copy of Chevy Chase to Tyburn when he was hanged
on 10th of September, 1664.
James Batson
[181]
A rogue who became a pretty soldier and saw much of Europe,
finally dying by the rope at home in 1666.
Thomas Savage
[202]
A profligate apprentice who murdered a fellow-servant, was
executed twice, and finally buried 28th of October, 1668.
The Rev. Robert Hawkins
[208]
The subject of a foul conspiracy on the part of Henry Larri-
more and Sir John Croke that failed at Aylesbury Assizes,
11th of March, 1669.
Stephen Eaton, George Roades and Sarah
[214]
Swift
Executed 14th of July, 1669, for the murder of the Rev. John
Talbot; their accomplice, Henry Prichard, being reprieved.
Claude Du Vall
[220]
A Frenchman who, coming to England, became by his polite-
ness and gallantry on the road the romantic darling of the
ladies. Executed 21st of January, 1670.
Thomas Wilmot
[231]
A notorious highwayman who hated and maltreated women.
Executed 30th of April, 1670.
Thomas Blood, Generally Called Colonel Blood[242]
Who stole the crown from the Tower of London on 9th of
May, 1671.
Mary Carleton, the German Princess
[249]
A Kentish
adventuress who travelled the Continent, acquired
several husbands, and was executed on 22nd of January, 1673,
for returning from transportation.
Andrew Rutherford of Townhead
[267]
Executed for the murder of James Douglas, brother to Sir
William Douglass of Cavers, on 25th of November, 1674.
George Clerk and John Ramsay
[268]
Executed 1st of March, 1675, for poisoning John Anderson, an
Edinburgh merchant; Kennedy, the chemist's apprentice who
supplied them, being banished.
Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery
[271]
Tried for the murder of Nathaniel Cony by his brother peers
in 1678 and found guilty of manslaughter later.
The Rev. Robert Foulkes
[274]
Executed 31st of January, 1679, for the murder of his newly-
born babe.
Captain Richard Dudley
[275]
A companion of the highwayman whom King Charles II.
dubbed Swiftnicks for his ride to York. Executed 22nd of
February, 1681.
Captain Vratz, John Stern and George
[279]
Borosky
Foreigners
who murdered Thomas Thynn, Esq., in Pall Mall,
on behalf, it was alleged, of Count Coningsmark. Executed
10th of March, 1682.
William Nevison
[283]
A highwayman who, dying of the plague as was thought, re-
appeared as his own ghost, and was finally executed at York
in 1684.
John Cottington alias Mul-Sack
[292]
Chimney-sweep, pickpocket and highwayman, who brought off
some big coups. Executed in April, 1685.
Edward and Joan Bracey
[299]
Who robbed on the highway together, the woman being
executed in 1685 and the man being killed by a gunshot
wound.
Jonathan Simpson
[304]
A highwayman who was witty with a halter round his neck
and, being reprieved, found that Newgate would not have
him. Executed 8th of September, 1686.
William Cady
[307]
A highwayman who shot a woman before the eyes of her
husband for the wedding-ring she had swallowed. Executed
in 1687.
Phillip Stansfield, Son of Sir James
[316]
Stansfield
Executed 15th of February, 1688, for the murder of his
father and for high treason.
Index
[333]
List of Plates & Appendices
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