Index

Abney, Thomas 2.7

Acton, William (prison keeper) 3.6

Acts of parliament see statutes

Adams, Anne (informer) 4.7

Adams, Henry 6.6, 7.10

Adams, James Sturges 5.8, 6.6

Adams, William (pauper) 2.4

Addington, William (JP) 7.5

agency

definition of 1.3, 1.4

Aikles, Henry (criminal) 7.10

Air, Thomas 3.5

Akerman, Richard (prison keeper) 7.2

aldermen and court of aldermen see City of London, Court of Aldermen

Alexander (transportation ship) 3.3

Allen, Fifield 5.3

Allen, Roger (criminal) 4.7

Almon, John 6.6

American Revolution 1.1, 5.9, 7.1, 7.3, 7.4, 7.9

Amey, Elizabeth (prostitute) 4.3

Amherst, Lord Jeffery (First Baron Amherst) 7.3

Anderson, William 4.3

Andrew, Donna 5.10

Andrews, Mary (criminal) 3.5

Andrews, William 5.8

Applebee, John 4.8

Archer, Thomas (criminal) 7.5

Aris, Thomas (prison keeper) 8.2, 8.3

Armstrong, Sarah (criminal) 6.7

Arnold, Edward (criminal) 4.7

Arnold, Quilt (thief-taker) 3.4

Askew, John (pauper) 1.2

assault 2.3, 3.2, 3.7, 3.7, 4.3, 5.7, 6.4

associational charities 4.2, 4.4, 5.1, 5.9, 6.5

Asylum for Orphan Girls 5.10

Awdry, Roderick (criminal) 2.7, 2.7, 3.3

Ayrton, Thomas (lawyer) 7.5, 7.8

Backbarrow cotton mill 7.9, 8.1

Bagnigge Wells spa 6.2

Bahlman, Dudley 2.5

bail see
statutes:1 & 2 Phil & Mar, c. 13 (1554-5) [Marian Bail statute]; 2 & 3 Phil & Mar, c. 10 (1555) [Marian Bail statute]

ballads 3.5, 3.5, 8.3

Baltimore (Maryland) 7.7

Bambridge, Thomas (prison keeper) 3.6

Bank of England 7.3

Barefoot, Ann (criminal) 4.8

Barkley, Elizabeth 3.6

Barnham, Stephen (criminal) 3.5

Barrington, Lord William Wildman Shute (Second Viscount Barrington) 6.3

barristers see lawyers

Bartington, George (criminal) 7.6

Bates, Henry (pauper) 1.1, 2.4, 2.4

Bates, Mary (pauper) 2.4

Bath 6.5

Bavarian Chapel 7.3

bawdy houses 3.7, 3.7, 5.5, 5.7, 6.7

complaints about 2.3

efforts to suppress 2.3, 3.6, 5.5, 5.7

Beames, Robert (criminal) 2.7

Beattie, John (historian) 1.3, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 4.8, 5.6, 6.7, 6.7, 7.8

Beattie, John (murdered sailor) 6.3

Beccaria, Cesare 1.3, 6.8

Bedward, Margaret (pauper), John (son), Mary (daughter), and Thomas (son) 6.4

Beezley, Martha (informer) 4.7

Bell, William (criminal) 7.6

Bellamy, Martin (criminal) 3.5

benefit of clergy 2.7, 2.7, 3.2, 5.9, 7.6

Bentham, Jeremy 8.2

Benzie, Ann (pauper) 7.9

Berry, John (thief-taker) 4.8, 5.6, 5.6

Bethnal Green 6.3, 6.3, 6.5, 6.6, 7.3

Bever, Samuel (JP) 5.8, 5.8

Billingsly, William (criminal) 4.8

Bills of Mortality 2.2, 2.4, 3.3, 4.2, 4.2, 4.5, 5.4, 5.10, 6.4

Birch, John 7.9, 8.1

Birch, Richard 6.5

Bird, Elizabeth (prostitute) 2.3

Bird, William 4.3, 4.3, 4.4, 4.8

Birkenhead, William (criminal) 2.7

Black Boy Alley gang 4.7, 5.5

‘Black Guard’ 2.5

Black, John 5.12

Blackerby, Nathaniel (JP) 3.7, 3.7

Blake, Joseph (criminal) 3.4, 3.5

Bland, Sarah (prostitute) 4.3

Blandy, Mary (criminal) 5.5

Blewit, William (criminal) 3.3

Blewmire, John (thief-taker) 4.8

Blincoe, Robert (pauper)

Memoir of … An Orphan Boy 8.3

Bliss, Thomas 3.6

Bloodworth, Ann and Thomas (paupers, husband and wife) 6.4

bloody code 3.8

Bloomsbury Square 7.3, 7.3

Board of Trade 2.2

Body, William (thief-taker) 4.8, 4.8

Bond, Richard (Bow Street Runner) 6.7

Boreman, Captain 3.3

Boswell, James (author) 5.11, 5.12

Boswell, James (criminal) 3.3

Botany Bay (Australia) 7.7, 7.11

Boteler, Thomas (JP) 3.7

Boulton, Jeremy 1.3, 1.5, 3.8, 4.1, 4.2

Bourne, Patrick (pauper) 4.5

Bow Church 3.2

Bow Street (magistrates’ office) 4.5, 4.7, 5.3, 5.8, 5.11, 6.6, 6.9, 7.3, 7.3, 7.8, 8.2, 8.2

courtroom at 4.7, 6.7

records kept 5.6, 6.6, 8.2

re-examinations at 5.6, 5.6, 6.7, 7.3, 7.5, 7.8

Bow Street Runners 1.3, 1.3, 1.4, 4.8, 5.4, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.11, 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.6, 7.8, 8.2

discredited in court 5.6, 6.7

plebeian hostility towards 5.6, 6.7, 7.8

Bowes, Henry 3.7

Bradshaw, John 3.4

Branch, Benjamin (criminal) 3.5

branding 2.7, 2.7, 3.3, 3.3, 6.8, 7.2

patterns and fluctuations of 7.5

Braybrook, James (thief-taker) 5.7

Brereton, Owen 6.4

Bridewell 1.5, 2.3, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5, 2.7, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 4.3, 5.2, 5.9, 6.6, 7.3, 7.4, 7.9

numbers committed to 2.2, 2.3, 2.3, 4.1, 6.1, 6.6, 7.4, 7.6

Bridgen, William (Lord Mayor) 6.5

Brinnish, John and Thomas (paupers, brothers) 2.1

Bristol 2.1

British Library 1.5, 3.8

British Lying-in Hospital 4.5, 5.10

Broaders, Christopher (criminal) 6.7

Brogden, Joshua 5.6

Bromfield, John (JP) 4.3

brothels see bawdy houses

Brown Bear (tavern) 6.7, 6.7

Brown, Benjamin (criminal) 7.5

Brown, Jeremiah 6.4

Brown, John 7.6

Brown, Mary (pauper) 6.5, 7.9

Brown, Roger 3.6

Brownlow Street 5.10

Brownrigg, Elizabeth (criminal), James (husband), and John (son) 6.4

Buckingham, Katherine (criminal) 2.7

Buckland, William 4.8

Bulstrode, Whitelocke (JP) 3.7

Bunting, Frances (pauper) 4.2

Burdett, Francis 8.3

Burford, James 5.4

Burgess, Mary (criminal) 7.11, 8.1

Burgis, Margaret (pauper) 6.4

burglary 2.7, 3.2, 5.4, 5.9, 6.7, 7.6

Burke, Edmund 7.1, 7.6, 8.3

Burke, Michael (pauper) 6.6

Burn, James Dawson (pauper) 7.10

Burn, Richard 6.5

Justice of the Peace 6.5

Burney, Fanny 7.3

Burnworth gang 3.3, 3.5

Burnworth, Edward (criminal) 3.3, 3.5, 4.7

Burt, Samuel (criminal) 7.7, 7.11

Caddy, Joseph (criminal) 7.6

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure 1.3

Cambridge Street Rotation Office 6.7

Cameron, John (informer) 3.7

Campbell, Duncan 7.1, 7.2

Campbell, Robert (criminal) 6.3

Canada 8.1

Candler, Ann (pauper) 8.3

Canning, Elizabeth (criminal) 5.4, 5.4

capital convictions

patterns and fluctuations of 2.7, 3.3, 3.3, 7.5

capital punishment 6.3, 6.3, 7.6, 7.11

attitudes towards 2.7, 5.4, 5.5, 5.9

executions at the scene of the crime 7.3

patterns and fluctuations of 1.1, 3.3, 5.5, 5.8, 7.6, 7.6

Carlini, Agostino 6.9

Carmichael, John 6.3

Carney, William (criminal) 5.9

Carpenter, Sarah (pauper) 5.10

Carrick, James (criminal) 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 4.7

Carter, Robert (criminal) 4.8

Castell, Robert 3.6

Censor (hulk) 7.1, 7.6

Chamberlayne, John 3.8

Chancery Lane 5.7

Charitable Infirmary for the Relief of Poor Women Labouring of Child 5.10

Chauvet, Lewis 6.3

Chick Lane 4.7, 4.8, 4.8, 6.4

Cholmondley, Phillip (informer) 3.7, 3.7, 3.8

Christopher, Emma 7.7

Church Street 6.8

Church, Philip 5.4

City of London 1.5

Court of Aldermen 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 4.7, 5.7

Repertories of the Court of Aldermen 1.5

Court of Common Council 2.3, 2.5, 5.2

Journals of the Court of Common Council 1.5

Guildhall magistrates’ court 4.1, 4.7, 5.7, 5.8, 7.10

Lord Mayor 1.4, 1.5, 2.3, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 4.7, 5.7, 5.9, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.3, 7.9, 7.9, 7.10

Charge Books 2.3, 2.3, 3.7

proclamations of 2.2, 2.3

Mansion House 6.3, 6.3, 6.5

Mansion House justice room 5.7, 5.8, 6.5, 7.10

patrole 7.8, 7.10, 8.2

Recorder 3.3, 6.8, 8.2

City of London Lying-in Hospital 5.10

City patrole see City of London: patrole

Clare Street 7.3

Clarke, Daniel (informer) 6.3, 6.9

Clarke, John (Bow Street Runner) 6.7

Claxton, Elizabeth (criminal) 2.6

Clayton, Mary 1.3

Clayton, Robert 2.3, 2.7

Clerkenwell Green 3.3

Clerkenwell house of correction 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.6, 5.8, 5.9, 6.6, 6.6, 6.8, 6.9, 7.2, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.6

numbers committed to 6.6, 7.4, 7.6

Clerkenwell Rotation Office 6.7

Clifford, Mary 6.4

Clifton, John (pauper) 4.2

clipping/counterfeiting coins 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.3, 2.7, 6.7, 6.8, 6.8

Club, George 6.3

Cody, Lisa 5.1, 5.10

Cold Bath Fields prison 6.8, 8.2, 8.3

Collier, Ann (criminal) 4.8, 4.8

Collins, Edmond (criminal) 6.8

Colquhoun, Patrick (JP) 8.2, 8.2, 8.3, 8.3

Common Council see City of London: Court of Common Council

Common Pleas, court of 2.3

constables 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.7, 3.7, 3.7, 4.4, 4.7, 4.7, 4.8, 5.2, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.8, 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 7.3, 8.2

convict love tokens 7.2

Conyer, Charles 2.6

Conyer, Philip 2.6

Cook, Thomas (criminal) 2.6

Cooper, James (informer) 2.3, 2.3

Cooper, John (constable) 2.6, 2.6

Cooper, Mary 4.8

Coram, Thomas 4.5, 5.11

coroners 8.3

inquests 1.1, 4.4, 6.1, 6.4

Cosier, Mary 4.3

courts see Bow Street (magistrates’ office): courtroom at; City of London: Guildhall magistrates’ court; City of London Mansion House justice room; Common Pleas, court of; justices of the peace: petty sessions; King’s Bench; Old Bailey; sessions

Coutts’ Bank 7.3

Covent Garden 3.5, 3.7, 4.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.3

Coventry 6.3

Coventry gang 5.6

Cowden, Sarah (criminal) 1.1, 8.1

Cox, Joseph (constable) 5.6

Cox, Robert 7.3

Cox, William (criminal) 6.2

Crawford, Patricia 5.10

crime

attitudes towards 6.2

causes of 1.2, 5.6

gin 4.7

poverty 3.2

crime waves (or prosecution waves) 3.1, 5.1, 5.11, 6.1, 7.5

patterns and fluctuations of prosecutions 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 4.8, 5.2, 5.2, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1, 7.4

recidivism 3.2, 3.3, 3.5

reporting of, in the press 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 4.8, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.6, 5.6, 5.11, 6.3, 6.7, 7.5, 7.11

criminal biography 5.2, 5.5, 6.2

criminal justice system

development of 1.2, 4.1, 6.1

record keeping, development of 8.2

Criminal Registers 8.2

criminal trials

corroboration rule 4.8

criminals

as social critics 3.4, 3.5

celebrity criminals 3.5, 5.2, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2

dying ‘game’ 1.3, 2.7, 3.5, 5.11

gangs 1.2, 4.1, 4.5, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1, 5.4, 5.5, 7.4

gentlemen highwaymen 3.5, 5.3, 5.10, 6.2

mocking of authority 3.5, 3.9

Crimp riots 8.3

Crisp, Andrew 2.4

Crocker, Benjamin and Elisabeth (paupers, husband and wife) 6.5

Cromwell, Robert 6.3

Cross, Samuel 5.4

Cullum, John (criminal) 3.3

Curtis, Mary (pauper) 4.2

Customs House 7.3

Dabhoiwala, Faramerz 2.3, 4.8, 6.6

Daily Courant 4.3

Daily Journal 3.5

Daily Post 3.8

Dalton, Edward (criminal) 4.8

Dalton, James (criminal) 3.3, 3.5, 3.5, 4.8

A Genuine Narrative of all the Street Robberies 3.5

Darkin, Isaac (criminal) 5.10

Darwell, William (criminal) 5.6, 5.10

Davis, Hannah (pauper) 4.2

Davis, John (criminal) 6.7

de Certeau, Michel 1.4

De Veil, Thomas (JP) 4.1, 4.3, 4.3, 4.5, 4.7, 4.7, 4.7, 4.8, 4.8, 4.8, 5.3

Memoirs 4.5, 4.7, 4.7, 4.8

Dean’s Court 6.5

defendants

at Old Bailey, social and occupational status of 1.2

Defoe, Daniel 3.3, 3.3, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8, 3.8, 4.2

Colonel Jack 3.3

Moll Flanders 3.3

Parochial Tyranny 3.3

demobilisation 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 3.1, 5.2, 6.2, 7.4, 7.9, 7.10

Denbighshire 6.5

Dent, John (informer) 2.6, 3.7

Deptford 6.8

Devereaux, Simon 1.3, 6.2, 7.6, 7.10

Dickens, Charles

Barnaby Rudge 7.3

Dickenson, Marshe 5.9

Dickins, Anne (prostitute) 2.6

Dillon, Patrick 4.7, 5.5, 5.5

Dionis, Charlotte (pauper) 4.2

Dionis, Timothy (pauper) 4.2

disorderly houses see bawdy houses; gaming houses

dissection

of executed offenders 3.5, 5.1, 5.5, 5.10, 6.3, 6.4, 6.9

Diver, Jenny see Young, Mary (criminal)

Dolphin (tavern) 6.3, 6.3

Dorselt, James (pauper) 4.2

Douglas, Thomas and William (cotton mill owners) 7.9

Downing, Joseph 4.4

Downright, Daniel

The Bastard Child, or a Feast for the Church-Wardens 6.4

Doyle, John (criminal) 6.3

Drake, Charles (criminal) 7.2

Drummond’s Bank 7.3

drunkenness

as defence strategy 4.7

Drury Lane 2.6, 3.7, 3.7, 4.8

Drury, Ann 6.7

Duck, Ann (criminal) 4.8

ducking 6.3

Duke’s Court 4.3

Dunk, Thomas (criminal) 6.8

Durham, John (criminal) 7.11

Dyson, Mary (pauper) 1.1, 8.1

Eagan, James (thief-taker) 5.6

Ealey, Mary 3.7

Ealing 5.10

Easden, Jonathan (informer) 2.3

East India Company 7.3

Easter, Tom (criminal) 4.8

Eastman, William (criminal) 6.3, 6.3

Eaton, Isabella (criminal) 3.7

Eccles cotton mill 7.9

Eccles, Audrey 5.8

Ecken, Dodo 7.2

Eden, Frederick Morton 6.4

Eden, William 7.1

Edlin, John 4.8

Edwards, William 5.8

Edwin, Humphrey (Lord Mayor) 2.5

Ekirch, Roger 3.3, 6.8

Eldridge, John 3.3

Ellis, John (JP) 3.7, 3.8

Ellis, John (victim) 5.6

Enfield 3.8, 7.9

Erskine, Stewart 7.2

Erskine, Thomas (criminal) 6.8

Erskine, Thomas (lawyer) 8.3

Evans, John (criminal) 3.3

Evans, Mary (criminal) 3.7

Evening Post 3.7

Everitt, Susannah 6.6

Excise Office 4.7, 4.7, 7.3

Fairbrother, Mary (pauper) 4.2

Family Men (gang) 5.6

Farge, Arlette 1.3

Farmer, Richard (JP) 4.7

Farmer, Thomas (criminal) 6.3, 7.2

Farrer, William (criminal) 5.3

Farringdon Ward Without 6.6

Fenchurch Street 4.2, 6.5

Field, Joseph (criminal) 4.8, 4.8

Fielding, Henry (JP) 1.3, 4.5, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.9, 5.11, 6.7, 6.7, 7.6

Amelia 5.8

Covent Garden Journal 5.3, 5.6

An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase in Robbers 5.4, 5.4, 5.5, 5.5, 5.6, 6.2

Proposal for Making an effectual provision for the Poor 5.4

Tom Jones 5.4

True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez 5.4

Fielding, Jane 6.6

Fielding, John (JP) 1.3, 4.5, 4.7, 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.8, 5.10, 5.10, 5.11, 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.8, 6.8, 7.3, 7.5, 7.5, 7.8, 8.2, 8.2

Account of the Origin and Effects of a Police 5.6

Extracts from … the Penal Laws 5.8

Firmin, Thomas 2.3

Fisher, Henry (criminal) 3.5

Fissell, Mary 1.3

Fitzgerald, John (criminal) 7.6

Fitzharris, John 6.3

Fleet Market 6.4

Fleet prison 3.5, 7.3

Fleet Street 3.2, 3.6, 7.3

Flying Highwayman (ballad) 5.3

Footman, Mary 4.8

Ford, Richard (JP) 8.2

Forfar, Alexander (thief-taker) 4.8

forgery 2.4, 5.5, 6.5

Foster, Bazil (pauper) 5.8

Foster, Elizabeth (pauper) 5.8

Foucault, Michel 1.4

Foundling Hospital 4.1, 4.2, 4.5, 5.1, 5.10, 5.10, 6.4, 6.4, 6.5, 6.5, 7.9

Franklin, Benjamin 6.3

fraud 2.4, 6.6, 6.8, 6.8, 7.4

Frazier, James (JP) 4.4

Freeman, Mary (criminal) 3.7

Freeman, William 4.3

Freemasons’ Hall 7.3

French Revolution 7.12, 8.1, 8.2

Fumerton, Patricia 2.2

Gadd, Henry (criminal) 4.8

Gallimore, Elinour (criminal) 3.3

Galloway, Edward 3.3

Gamble, John 7.3

gaming houses 3.5, 3.7, 5.5, 5.7

gangs see criminals: gangs

gaol fever 2.7, 5.9, 6.8, 7.2

gaols see imprisonment; prisons

Gardiner, Mary (pauper) 6.6

Gardiner, Sarah (pauper) 5.8

Garrick, David 6.7

Garrow, William (lawyer) 1.3, 1.5, 7.5, 7.10

Garth, Samuel 3.5

Gatehouse prison 3.2, 3.7, 5.5, 6.8

Gatrell, Vic 1.3, 8.3

Gay, John 3.5, 3.5

The Beggar’s Opera 3.5, 3.5, 5.3, 5.11, 6.7

Gelder, Sarah (pauper) 5.10

gender

and gin 4.7

crisis of, in 1690s 2.1

female criminality 2.7

patterns of admissions to workhouses 2.5, 4.1

patterns of prosecuted crime 3.2

General Lying-in Hospital 5.10, 6.5

Gentleman’s Magazine 4.7, 5.3, 5.5, 7.6

Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of James Maclean, Highwayman 5.3

Genuine Life of Isaac Darking, alias Dumas 5.11

George I, King 3.1, 3.2

Gibbons, John (thief-taker) 2.7

Gibbs, Thomas 7.2

Gifford, Richard (JP) 3.7

Gilbert, Thomas 7.9, 8.2

Gillam, Samuel (JP) 6.3

Gillray, James 7.3

Giltspur Street Compter 8.2

gin 5.10

and gender 4.7

concerns about the consumption of 4.1, 4.6, 4.8

Gin Acts 4.7, 5.5

plebeian opposition to 4.7, 4.9, 5.5

levels of consumption 5.5

Glass House Yard Liberty 5.8

Globe Tavern 4.3

Glorious Revolution (1688) 2.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4

Glover, Jane (criminal) 2.3

Godfrey, William 4.3

Golden Square 7.3

Gonson, John (JP) 3.7, 3.7, 3.7, 4.3

Goodman, Samuel (criminal) 4.8

Gordon Riots 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.2, 7.2, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, 8.2, 8.3

Gordon, Lord George 1.2, 7.2, 7.3

Goree (Africa) 1.1, 7.7

Grammer, David 6.3

grand jury 2.2, 2.5, 2.7, 2.7, 2.7, 3.7, 3.7, 5.6

charges delivered to 3.7, 3.7, 5.3

presentments of 2.2, 5.2

grand larceny 2.7, 3.3, 4.1, 4.8, 6.8, 7.2, 7.6

Grear, Thomas (criminal) 6.7

Great Grievance of Traders and Shopkeepers 2.7

Green Street 5.10

Green, David 1.3

Green, John 6.3, 6.3, 6.3

Green, Thomas (criminal) 6.8

Gretton, John (JP) 6.7

Griffith, John (criminal) 5.5

Griffith, Sarah (criminal) 5.9

Grimston, John 7.3

Guildhall magistrates’ court see City of London: Guildhall magistrates’ court

Guthrie, James 4.8

Guy’s Hospital 4.5, 6.5

Habeas Corpus Act 5.4

Hackney Wick 6.5

Haliburton, William (Bow Street Runner) 6.6

Hall, Edward (prison keeper) 7.2, 7.4

Hall, John (criminal) 5.3

Hall, Virtue 5.4

Hamleeter, Edward (pauper) 6.6

Hammersmith 3.7

Hampstead 6.7

handbills 6.3, 8.3

hanging in chains 5.5, 6.3

Hanging no Dishonour 4.9

Hanging, Not Punishment Enough, for Murtherers, High-way Men and House Breakers 2.7

Hanway, Jonas 1.3, 5.10, 5.10, 5.10, 5.11, 6.1, 6.4, 6.4, 6.5, 6.5, 6.8, 7.9, 8.1, 8.2

hard labour 1.1, 2.7, 2.8, 3.3, 3.7, 5.4, 5.9, 6.8, 6.8, 7.2, 7.6, 7.9

attitudes towards 5.9, 5.9

Hardy, Thomas 8.3

Harley, Benjamin (criminal) 6.8

Harley, Robert (criminal) 6.8

Harper, William (criminal) 4.8, 4.8, 4.8

Harpur, Henry (JP) 3.7

Harris, Andrew 7.8

Hartley, Ralph (JP) 2.3

Hartlib, Samuel 2.5

harvest failures 2.1, 2.5, 3.1, 5.5, 6.1, 8.1

Harvey, Mary (criminal) 1.3, 3.7

Harvey, William 5.9

Hawes, Nathaniel (criminal) 3.5, 3.5

Hawkins gang 3.5

Hawkins, John (criminal) 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 4.7

Hawkins, John (JP) 6.3, 6.8, 8.3

Hawkins, William (criminal) 3.5, 3.5, 4.7

Full, True and Impartial Account of all the Robberies Committed 3.5

Hawksmoor, Nicholas 3.8

Hay, Douglas 1.3, 7.10

Haycock, Thomas (criminal) 7.3

Hayes, Catherine (criminal) 3.4

Hayley, George (pauper) 6.4

Haymarket 4.6

Heley, John (Bow Street Runner) 6.7

Hemlichen, John (criminal) 3.7

Hempston, Edward (criminal) 6.8

Henman, Thomas (criminal) 6.8

Hertfordshire 6.6

Hewitt, John 6.8

Hexham 7.10

Hicks Hall see sessions: Middlesex

highway robbery 2.3, 2.7, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3.7, 4.7, 4.8, 4.8, 4.8, 5.3, 5.5, 5.6, 5.10, 7.2, 7.8

Hill, Edward (criminal) 4.8

Hill, John (criminal) 4.8

Hill, Robert (criminal) 7.7

Hill, Wills (Earl of Hillsborough) 7.3

Hind, William Palmer (thief-taker) 4.8, 5.6

Hindes, Mary (criminal) 5.10

Hindle, Steve 1.3, 2.4, 2.4

Hinton, Frances (criminal) 2.3

Hitchen, Charles (thief-taker) 3.4, 3.6

Hoare, Henry 4.4

Hodgson, Edmund 7.4, 8.2

Hodgson, Ralph (JP) 6.3, 6.3, 6.7

Hogarth, William 3.7, 5.5

Beer Street 5.5

Four Stages of Cruelty 5.5

Gin Lane 5.5, 5.10

Harlot’s Progress 3.7

Industry and Idleness 5.5

Holborn Bars 4.8

Holden, Booker (high constable) 4.3

Holland, Elizabeth (pauper) 6.6

Holloway, Robert 6.6, 6.7

The Rat-Trap 6.7

Holt, John 2.6

Holywell Street 7.9

Home Office 8.2

Honduras 7.3, 7.7, 8.1

Honeyman, Katrina 8.1

Honour (transportation ship) 3.3

Honourable Artillery Company 7.4

Hopkins, Daniel (criminal) 7.6

Horne-Tooke, John 6.3

Horsemonger Lane prison 8.2

Horsford, Anstis (criminal) 6.3

Horsford, William (criminal) 6.3, 6.3

hospitals see associational charities; British Lying-in Hospital; City of London Lying-in Hospital; General Lying-in Hospital; Guy’s Hospital; Hyde Park Hospital; London Hospital; Middlesex General Hospital; Royal Hospital, Chelsea; St Bartholomew’s Hospital; St George’s Hospital; St Thomas’s Hospital; Westminster Infirmary

Houghton, Charles (criminal) 3.3

House of Commons see parliament: House of Commons

House of Lords see parliament: House of Lords

housebreaking 2.7

houses of correction 5.11, 6.8, 7.1, 8.2

conditions in 5.8, 5.9

numbers committed to 2.7, 3.2

Houssart, Lewis (criminal) 3.5

Howard, John 1.3, 6.8, 7.2, 8.2

Howard, William Augustus 8.1

Howson, Gerald 3.4, 3.5

Hoxton 6.5, 6.5

Huggins, John (prison keeper) 3.6

Hughes, William (criminal) 6.8

hulks 1.1, 7.1, 7.10, 7.11

conditions on 7.2, 7.6

escapes from 1.4, 7.2

numbers sentenced and committed to 7.2

Humphreys, John 3.2

Hunter, William 6.9

Hutton, George 7.6

Hyde Park 5.3

Hyde Park Hospital 5.8

Hyde, Mary (pauper and vagrant) 5.8

Hyde, William (JP) 7.3, 7.3

Ilive, Jacob 5.8, 5.9

imprisonment 2.7, 7.1, 7.4, 7.5

patterns and fluctuations of 6.8, 7.4, 8.2

Indian Queen (tavern) 7.9

informers 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.7, 4.1, 4.5, 4.7, 4.8, 4.8, 4.9, 5.5, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.7, 6.3, 6.7, 7.7

judicial opposition to 4.7

plebeian opposition to 4.7, 4.9

Innes, Joanna 1.3, 5.7, 7.8

Inns of Court 7.3

Ireland 2.6

Jackson, James 7.3

Jackson’s Alley 7.9

Jacobitism 3.2, 3.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.9

Jealous, Charles (Bow Street Runner) 7.5

Jefferies, Elizabeth (criminal) 5.5

Jekyll, Joseph 4.7

Jekyll, Thomas 2.6

Jenkins, James (informer) 2.3, 2.3, 2.7

Johnson, Roger (thief-taker) 3.4, 3.5, 3.6

Johnson, William (criminal) 2.7

Jolly Lad’s Trip to Botany Bay 8.3

Jones, Catherine (pauper) 6.5, 6.5, 8.3

Jones, Edward 4.8

Jones, Elizabeth (pauper) 5.8, 6.7

Jones, John (criminal) 7.2, 7.2

Jones, Mary (criminal) 5.6

Jones, Peter 1.3

Jones, Sarah 3.8

Jones, Thomas (criminal, tried 1750) 5.4, 5.5

Jones, Thomas (criminal, tried 1784) 7.6

Jones, William (pauper) 6.4

Jones, William (victim) 3.2

juries see grand jury; verdicts in criminal trials

jury of matrons 2.7, 8.1

justices of the peace 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 4.6, 5.4, 5.6, 6.3, 6.3, 7.3

court justices 4.1, 4.5, 5.3, 5.4

petty sessions 2.4, 3.7, 3.7, 4.3, 4.8

plebeian hostility towards 6.3

presence at parish vestries 4.3, 4.3

stipendiary magistrates 8.2

trading justices 1.2, 1.4, 4.2, 4.7, 4.8, 5.4, 6.1, 6.3, 6.7, 8.2

Justicia (hulk) 7.1, 7.6

Kearney, Paul Patrick (pauper) 1.1, 6.5, 8.3

Keele, Richard (criminal) 3.3

Keeling, Charles (criminal) 7.7

Kelly, Peter 5.6

Kempton, Thomas (criminal) 5.9

Kidden, Joshua 5.6

King, Martha 4.1

King, Peter 1.3, 1.3, 1.4

Remaking Justice from the Margins 1.3

King, Steven 1.3

King’s Bench 2.6, 3.7, 3.7, 4.3, 4.7, 5.5, 5.7, 6.6, 7.5, 7.8, 8.2

prison 3.5, 6.3, 6.3, 6.3, 7.3

king’s evidence 4.9, 6.8

King’s Letter fund 2.3

Kippax, William 6.5

Knave’s Acre 6.7

Knight, Mary (criminal) 3.2

Knightsbridge 5.10

Lade, John (JP) 3.2

Lady Juliana (transportation ship) 8.1

Lancaster, John (criminal) 5.5

Landau, Norma 4.7, 6.7

Landsman, Stephen 4.8

Langbein, John 1.3, 4.8, 7.5

Larkin, Mary (pauper) 4.5

lawyers 1.3, 1.4

adversarial trial 1.3, 5.6, 6.7, 7.4

as defence counsel 1.3, 3.7, 4.8, 4.9, 5.6, 5.11, 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 7.4, 7.6, 7.11, 8.1, 8.3

as prosecution counsel 3.2, 4.1, 4.4, 6.3, 7.4

at Bow Street (magistrates’ office) 7.5

Newgate solicitors 3.4, 4.8, 6.8

poor law cases 7.5

Lay, John (pauper) 6.6

Le Batt, Margarett 6.4

Lee, Matthew (criminal) 5.3

Lees, Benjamin 7.6

legal representation see lawyers

legislation see gin: Gin Acts; parliament; statutes; Westminster: Watch Acts

Leicester Fields 4.3

Leicester Square 4.5

Lemmings, David 1.3, 8.3

Levene, Alysa 1.3

Leveson-Gower, Granville (Viscount Trentham) 5.4

Lewis, Paul (criminal) 5.6, 5.10

Lewis, Thomas (criminal) 5.6

Limpus, Thomas (pauper, vagrant and criminal) 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 7.7, 8.1

Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1.4, 7.3

Linebaugh, Peter 1.3

Lis, Catharina 1.3

Litchfield Rotation Office 6.6, 6.7

literacy 1.4, 6.5, 8.2, 8.3

Lloyd’s Evening Post 6.3, 6.4

Lock Hospital 4.5, 6.1

London 1.1, 1.2, 1.2, 1.4, 1.4, 5.1

Great Fire of 1666 2.2

local administration in 5.8

migration to 2.2

mortality rates in 2.2

population of 2.2

London Bridge 6.3

London Chronicle 5.7, 5.11

London Corporation of the Poor 2.4, 2.4, 2.7

London Corresponding Society 4.3, 8.2, 8.3, 8.3

London Evening Post 5.5

London Hospital 4.5

London Infirmary see London Hospital

London Journal 3.5

London Lives website 1.2, 1.5

London Metropolitan Archives 1.5

London Volunteers Association 7.7

London Workhouse 2.1, 2.1, 2.4, 2.4, 2.7, 3.3, 3.7, 5.2

Lord Mayor see City of London, Lord Mayor

Lovell, Edward (criminal) 6.8

Low Layton 8.1

Lowe, Mary 5.7

Lowth, Robert 2.3

Lowther, William (criminal) 3.3

Lund, Mary (pauper) 5.8

Lying-in Charity for Delivering Poor Married Women in their own Habitations 5.10

Lying-in Hospital see British Lying-in Hospital

MacCray, Thomas (criminal and lawyer) 4.7, 4.8

Macfarlane, Stephen 2.5

MacGennis, Michael (criminal) 5.5

MacKay, Lynn 8.3

Mackdonald, Capt

General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen 5.10

Mackenzie, William (criminal) 7.6

Maclaine, James (criminal) 3.5, 5.3, 5.5, 5.11, 6.2

Madan, Patrick (criminal) 7.2, 7.5, 7.7, 7.7

Maddox, Isaac 5.5

The Expediency of Preventive Wisdom 5.5

Magdalen Hospital 1.2

magistrates see justices of the peace

Maidstone 6.7

Maidstone Gaol 6.8

Mainwaring, Charles (JP) 8.3

Malthus, Thomas 8.2

Mandeville, Bernard 3.5

Manning, Charles (criminal) 7.2

Manningham, Richard 5.10

Mansion House justice room see City of London: Mansion House justice room

manslaughter 6.8

Marcrost, Robert 4.8

Marine Police 8.2

Marine Society 1.5, 5.10, 5.10

Marriott, Matthew 3.8, 3.8

Marsden, James 6.3

Marshall, Mary (pauper) 6.5

Marshalsea prison 3.5

Martin, Elizabeth (criminal) 6.7

Martin, John (criminal) 7.4

Martin, Matthew 8.2

Plan for the Suppression of Beggary 8.2

Mary Cut and Come-again (criminal) 1.1, 4.9

Maryland 7.7

Mason, Benjamin (criminal) 5.6

Massie, Joseph 5.10

Master of the Rolls 4.7

matrons, jury of see jury of matrons

Matthison, William (criminal) 6.8

Maurice, Mary (prostitute) 4.3, 4.4

May Fair 2.6

May, Allyson 7.4

May, Thomas (criminal) 5.6

Mayfair (neighbourhood) 8.2

McDaniel gang 5.6

McDaniel, Stephen (thief-taker) 4.8, 4.8, 5.6, 5.6

McKenzie, Andrea 1.3, 3.5, 3.5

McKinnon, Roderick 6.1

Mercer, John (JP) 3.7

Mercury (transportation ship) 1.1, 7.6, 7.7

Metropolitan Police 8.3

Metyard, Sarah jnr and Sarah snr (criminals) 6.4

Middlesex General Hospital 5.10

Middleton cotton mill 8.1

Middleton, Thomas 4.3, 4.3

Mile End 6.5

Miles, William Augustus 6.7

A Letter to Sir John Fielding 6.7

Milford Lane 4.2

Miller, Anne (pauper, mother), James Edward (son), Mary (daughter), and Prudentia (daughter) 5.10

Miller, Sarah 4.7

Mills, Elford (criminal) 5.9

Mills, Sarah (criminal) 7.11

Milner, John (JP) 3.8

Misson, Henri 2.7

Mohocks 3.2

‘Monster’ see Williams, Rhynwick

Montgomerie, Alexander (Tenth Earl of Eglinton) 5.3

Montgomery, Robert 4.8

Mooney, Nicholas (criminal) 5.3

Mooney, Thomas (criminal) 7.4

Moorfields 1.4, 4.8, 6.3, 6.3, 6.3

More, Hannah

Cheap Repository Tracts 8.3

Morgan, James (constable) 6.6

Morgan, William 4.3

Morley, George (criminal) 7.6

Morning Chronicle 6.7

Morrell, Joseph (criminal) 7.6

Morris, Mary (pauper) 5.10

Morse, Mary (pauper) 5.8

mughouses 3.2

Mulby, Edward (son), Malachi (father) and Sarah (mother) 5.10

Mullins, Edward (thief-taker) 5.6

Mumford, Thomas 7.6

Munn, Thomas (criminal) 5.3

Munro, Robert (pauper) 6.1

murder 2.3, 2.6, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.4, 4.5, 5.5, 5.10, 5.10, 6.3, 6.3, 6.4, 6.8

Murray, David (Viscount Stormont) 7.3

Murray, William (First Earl of Mansfield) 6.6, 7.3, 7.3, 7.3, 7.5

Myler, Mary (pauper) 6.6

Nailor, Ann and Mary (victims) 6.4

National Archives 1.5

Navickas, Katrina 7.3

Navy Pay Office 7.3

Neale, Dennis (criminal) 5.3

Memoirs of the Life and Remarkable Exploits 5.3

New Mint prison 3.2, 3.6

New Prison 1.1, 2.6, 3.2, 3.2, 3.7, 5.4, 5.9, 5.9, 6.8, 7.2, 7.2, 7.3, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7

numbers committed to 7.4

New Theatre 4.6

Newgate prison 1.2, 2.3, 2.7, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.6, 3.6, 4.8, 4.8, 5.3, 5.4, 5.7, 5.9, 5.9, 5.11, 5.11, 6.7, 6.8, 6.8, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.11, 8.1

attacks on 7.3

executions outside 7.6, 8.1

Newport, Samuel (prison keeper) 7.6

Newton, Isaac 2.7

Nichols, Mary (criminal) 3.2

night watch 1.2, 1.3, 1.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.7, 4.3, 4.3, 4.3, 4.8, 5.4, 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 6.6

Nine Years War 2.1

Norfolk Island (Australia) 1.1, 8.1

Norton, Ann (prostitute) 4.3

Norton, Catherine (informer) 4.7

Norwill, William (criminal) 4.8

Nourse, Timothy 2.7

Nova Scotia (Canada) 7.7

Oglethorpe, James 3.6

Old Bailey 1.2, 3.5, 5.11, 7.7

counsel at 1.4, 3.4, 4.1, 4.8, 6.7, 7.4, 8.3

courthouse 3.4, 3.5, 3.5, 6.8, 7.3

malicious prosecutions at 1.2, 5.6

Proceedings 1.2, 1.5, 2.2, 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 4.8, 5.6, 5.11, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7, 6.7, 7.4, 8.2, 8.3

trial procedures at 8.3

trials at 1.1, 2.2, 2.7, 2.8, 3.2, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 3.7, 4.1, 4.4, 4.7, 4.8, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.9, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.3, 6.5, 6.7, 6.7

Old Street 6.3

Ordinary of Newgate 2.7, 2.7, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 4.8, 4.9, 5.3, 5.6

Accounts 1.4, 3.5, 4.7, 4.8, 5.2, 6.2

Oxenden Street 4.3

Oxford Magazine 6.7, 6.8

Oxford prison 5.11

Page, William (criminal) 5.6, 5.10

Paine, Thomas 8.1

Palace Yard 7.3

Paley, Ruth 5.6, 5.6

Palmer, Charles (JP) 6.7

Palmer, Joanne (pauper) 2.4

pardons 1.1, 2.7, 5.4, 5.5, 6.8, 7.2, 7.6, 8.3

refusals to accept 1.4, 7.10, 8.1

Parke, Elizabeth (pauper) 2.4

Parker, Edward 4.7

Parker, Thomas (Third Earl of Macclesfield) 3.5

parliament 6.8, 7.3

committees of inquiry

committee for enquiry into burglaries and robberies (1770) 6.6, 6.7, 6.8

Felonies Committee (1751-1752) 5.5, 5.5, 5.5, 5.8, 5.9, 5.9, 5.10

Poor Law Commission (1834) 6.4

failed bills

Felons Confinement in the Dockyards Bill (1752) 5.9

London and Westminster Police Bill (1785) 7.8, 8.2

House of Commons 2.3, 4.3, 5.5

House of Lords 2.3, 6.3

legislation concerning crime, criminal law and its administration 2.6, 3.2, 5.4

legislation concerning poverty and poor relief 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.8, 5.7, 5.10, 6.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.2, 8.3

Parliament Street 7.3

Parliamentary Papers 1.5

Parsons, William (criminal) 5.3, 5.3

Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of William Parsons 5.3

Pate, Samuel 4.1

paupers see poor

Payne, William (constable and informer) 5.7, 6.6, 7.2, 7.3

Peat, Charles (criminal) 7.6

peine forte et dure 3.5

Pelham-Holles, Thomas (First Duke of Newcastle) 3.2, 5.6

Penlez riots 5.4

Penlez, Bosavern (criminal) 5.1, 5.4, 5.9, 5.12

Pentlow, William (Bow Street Runner) 5.6

Pepper, Thomas 4.7

perjury 3.4, 3.7, 4.7, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 5.4, 5.6, 5.6, 5.7

Perry, Edward (prison keeper) 3.3

Perry, John (JP) 2.6

Persius 5.7

Petticoat Lane 8.1

petty larceny 1.1, 2.3, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 4.7, 5.9, 6.6, 7.2

Peyton, Charles (criminal) 7.6

Philanthropos 4.3

Phillips, Clifford William (JP) 4.7

Philpot Lane 6.5

Phipps, Joseph 4.3

Piccadilly 6.3

pickpocketing 3.2, 4.7, 4.8, 5.5

Pierce, Joseph 6.8

pilfering 5.9

pillory 3.7, 4.7, 4.8, 5.6

Pitt, Martha 6.8

Pitt, William 7.6

Place, Bartholomew 5.9

Place, Francis 8.2

Place, William (criminal) 5.9

Plat, Elizabeth (criminal) 4.7

Playhouse Passage 3.7

plebeian

agency 1.1, 1.3, 1.3, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.4, 2.8, 3.9, 4.9, 5.1, 5.9, 6.1, 6.9, 7.6, 8.1, 8.2

definition of 1.1, 8.3

engagement with authority 1.2

influence on social policy 1.1, 5.2, 6.8, 7.1, 7.11, 8.2

Plunket, William (criminal) 5.3

Pocock, Mary (criminal) 4.7

police see Bow Street Runners; constables; Marine Police; Metropolitan Police; rotation offices; Thames Police Office; thief-takers; night watch; Westminster: Watch Acts

Ponton, Daniel (JP) 6.3

Poole, Hannah 6.4

poor 1.1, 1.2

economy of makeshift 1.3

letter writing and petitioning of 3.2, 6.5, 8.3

numbers of 1.2

working-class autobiography 8.3

poor relief 1.3, 2.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.8

apprenticeship of paupers to mills 7.9, 8.1

badges 2.4, 2.5, 2.8

certificates 2.1, 2.4, 2.4, 2.5, 2.8, 4.2

costs of 2.2, 4.2, 4.8, 5.2, 5.10, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2

deaths of paupers in care 6.4

development of 1.3, 4.1, 6.4, 7.8, 7.11

New Poor Law 3.8, 8.2, 8.3

Old Poor Law 2.3, 6.5, 8.3

plebeian exploitation of 6.5, 8.1

settlement 1.2, 1.4, 4.2, 5.5, 6.1, 6.4

changing notions of 2.3

Pope, Ann 7.9

Porter, Robert (criminal) 3.3

Portsoken Ward 4.8

Potbury, John (criminal) 4.8

Poulter, John (criminal) 5.9

The Discoveries of John Poulter 5.3

Poultry Compter 5.9

Powell, Daniel 4.1

Powell, Grace (criminal) 4.1

Pratt, Charles (criminal) 5.4

Pratt, Charles (First Earl Camden) 5.7

Prince Royal (transportation ship) 3.3

Prince, Elizabeth (criminal) 2.3

prisons 5.11

conditions in 5.9, 7.1, 7.2, 7.6

debtors’ prisons 3.5, 6.8

development of 8.2

escapes from 1.4, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 4.9, 5.9, 6.8, 6.9, 7.2, 7.6, 8.1, 8.3

keepers 3.6

opposition to solitary confinement 8.3

rebuilding of 6.8, 7.2

Privy Council 5.4, 5.6, 5.9, 7.3

Proclamation Society 7.8, 8.2, 8.2

prostitutes 1.1, 1.3, 2.3, 2.3, 2.6, 3.6, 3.7, 4.8, 5.3, 5.7, 5.8, 5.8, 5.9, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.3, 8.2

Protestant Association 7.2

Public Advertiser 5.3, 6.4, 7.2

punishment

failure to prevent crime 2.7, 3.3, 5.8

patterns and fluctuations of 5.8, 7.5, 7.11

severity of 2.7

Pynes, Charles (criminal) 2.7

Quaite, Elizabeth (criminal, wife) and Francis (husband) 4.8

quarter sessions see sessions

Queen Street 3.2

radicalism 8.1

efforts to suppress 8.2

Rag Fair (Rosemary Lane) 1.4

Raine, Richard (pauper) 6.4

Rainsforth, Sampson (high constable) 7.3, 7.3, 7.8, 7.9, 7.9

Ramsey, Allan 5.4

Rann, John (criminal) 6.2, 6.7, 6.7

Rawlinson, Eleanor (prostitute) 2.3

Rayner, Judith (pauper) 4.2

Read, Robert 3.2

Read’s Weekly Journal 4.7

receiving stolen goods 3.3, 5.4, 5.9, 6.7

recognizances 1.5, 5.7, 6.7, 6.7, 8.2

recoinage 2.2, 2.3, 2.5

Great Recoinage (1696) 2.1

Recorder of London see City of London: Recorder

reformation of manners campaigns

1690–1738 2.2, 2.5, 3.6, 4.9, 5.6

1757–1763 5.6

1787+ 7.8, 8.2

Black Lists 2.6

judicial opposition to 2.3, 2.6

plebeian opposition to 2.1, 3.9, 4.7, 5.7

societies for the 1.2, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 3.6, 4.1, 4.7, 5.7

tactics of 2.3

Remington, Charles (thief-taker) 4.8, 5.6

returning from transportation 1.1, 3.3, 5.3, 5.3, 5.9, 6.8, 7.6, 7.7, 7.10, 8.1

rewards 2.7, 3.5, 4.8, 4.8, 4.9, 5.1, 5.8, 6.6

offered by proclamation 3.3, 4.8, 5.6, 5.6

private 3.3, 4.8, 5.6

statutory 2.1, 3.3, 3.3, 4.8, 5.6, 5.7

Rewse, Bodenham (informer) 2.3, 2.3, 2.7, 2.7

Ricciardelli, Giuseppe (pauper) 5.10

Rich, Mary 8.3

Riot Act see statutes: 1 Geo I, c. 5 (1715)

riots 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.8, 6.9, 8.2

judicial response to 6.3

robbery 3.2, 3.3, 3.7, 3.7, 4.7, 4.7, 5.2, 5.4, 5.6, 5.6, 7.6

Roberts, Ann 2.3

Roberts, Rose (criminal) 4.7

Robin Hood 3.5

Robinson, Thomas (Duke of Richmond) 5.4

Rockman, Seth 1.3

Rogers, Nicholas 3.2, 5.5, 5.9

Rose Lane 6.5

rotation offices 1.4, 4.7, 5.11, 6.6, 6.7, 8.2

Rowlandson, Thomas 8.3

Royal Academy of the Arts 6.9

Royal College of Surgeons 6.9

Royal Exchange 3.3, 6.4

Royal Family (gang) 5.4, 5.5, 5.6

Royal Hospital, Chelsea 4.1

royal proclamations 2.3, 3.3, 3.8, 5.6, 5.6

Rudé, George 6.3, 7.3

Rummer Tavern 5.7

Russell, Edward (JP) 6.3

Russell, Elizabeth 8.1

Russell, Harriet (pauper) 8.1

Russell, Lord John (Fourth Duke of Bedford) 5.3, 6.3

Ryder, Dudley 5.11

Ryder, Samuel (JP) 3.7

Sabbath breaking 2.3, 3.7, 3.7, 5.7, 7.8

Sacheverell Riots 2.6, 2.8, 3.2

St Andrew Holborn 3.3

St Andrew Wardrobe 6.4

St Ann Blackfriars 4.2

workhouse 4.2

St Anne Soho 4.3

St Bartholomew’s Hospital 4.5

St Botolph Aldersgate 4.3, 4.3

workhouse 4.3

St Botolph Aldgate 1.5, 2.4, 6.5, 7.3, 8.1

St Botolph Billingsgate 2.4

St Botolph Bishopsgate 2.4, 6.5

St Bride Fleet Street 2.2, 4.2, 6.6

churchyard 6.4

workhouse 4.2

St Clement Danes 1.4, 1.5, 2.4, 2.4, 3.3, 4.2, 4.2, 4.3, 4.8, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 6.3, 6.4, 6.4, 7.8, 7.9, 8.1

census of the poor (1745) 4.2

workhouse 6.5, 6.5, 7.9

St Dionis Backchurch 1.5, 2.1, 2.4, 3.3, 4.2, 6.3, 6.5, 6.5, 6.5, 7.9

St George Bloomsbury 3.3

St George Botolph Lane 2.4

St George Hanover Square 3.3, 3.8, 3.8, 4.2, 4.3, 4.3, 6.4, 6.6

workhouse 5.10

St George’s Fields 7.3

St George’s Fields Massacre 6.3, 6.3

St George’s Hospital 6.1

St Giles Cripplegate 3.3, 4.2

St Giles in the Fields 3.3, 3.7, 3.7, 3.8, 3.8, 3.8, 4.1, 7.9

workhouse 3.8, 3.8

St James Clerkenwell 3.3, 4.8

St James Dukes Place 2.4

St James Piccadilly 4.3, 7.9

St James Westminster 2.6, 3.8, 4.3

workhouse 4.3

St James’s Street 5.3

St John Clerkenwell 3.3

St John the Evangelist 4.3, 6.4

St Leonard Shoreditch 2.3, 3.8

St Luke Chelsea 4.1

workhouse 4.1, 5.8

St Margaret Westminster 3.7, 3.8, 3.8, 4.3, 4.3, 5.8

workhouse 5.10

St Martin in the Fields 1.1, 1.5, 2.3, 3.3, 3.3, 3.7, 3.7, 3.8, 3.8, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2, 4.3, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.4, 5.10, 5.10, 6.5, 7.9

roundhouse 4.3, 4.9

disaster 4.1, 4.2

workhouse 1.1, 3.8, 4.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.5, 5.10, 6.4

St Martin’s Lane 4.3, 4.4

St Martin’s Street 7.3

St Mary Lambeth 7.9

St Mary le Bow 2.6

St Mary le Strand 2.6

St Mary Newington 4.2

St Mary Spitalfields 6.3, 6.3, 6.3, 6.3, 6.5, 8.1

church 6.3

market 6.4

St Mary Woolchurch 2.4

St Michael Cornhill 6.4

St Pancras workhouse 8.3

St Patrick’s Day 6.3

St Paul Covent Garden 3.3, 3.7, 3.7, 4.3, 4.3, 5.4, 6.4, 7.9

St Sepulchre 3.8

St Stephen Coleman Street 6.4

St Thomas’s Hospital 4.5

Salisbury Court 3.2

Salmon, James (thief-taker) 5.6

Savile, Gertrude 3.5

Sawbridge, John 6.3

Saxby, Mary (pauper)

Memoirs of a Female Vagrant 8.3

Sayer, John (Bow Street Runner) 7.8

Scarr, Richard 4.3

Schofield, Roger 1.3

Schwarz, Leonard 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 4.2

Scilly Isles 7.7

Scott, James 1.4

Scott, Sarah 7.6

Scurrier, Richard (criminal) 3.5

Secret Service Fund 4.5

Select Trials 3.5

select vestries see vestries: select vestries

Serpentine (river) 5.10

sessions 2.4, 2.4, 4.6, 5.5, 5.8, 5.8, 5.9, 5.9, 6.4, 7.6

City of London 2.4

Middlesex 1.5, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4, 3.7, 3.7, 4.7, 5.9, 6.8, 7.6, 7.10

Westminster 1.1, 1.5, 3.7, 3.7, 5.3

Seven Years War 5.6, 5.9, 6.1, 6.7

Sewell, Henry (criminal) 3.3

Shadwell 6.3, 6.3

Shadwell Rotation Office 6.7

Sharp, John (constable) 6.6

Sharpe, Pamela 1.3

Shave, Samantha 1.3

Shaw, James (criminal) 3.5, 4.7

Shears, Richard 5.5

Sheffield 8.1

Sheppard, Jack (criminal) 3.4, 3.5, 3.5

sheriff’s cravings 5.9

Sherratt, Thomas (constable) 5.8

Sherwin, John 3.5

Shirley, Laurence (Fourth Earl Ferrers, criminal) 5.11

Shoe Lane 6.4

shoplifting 2.7, 2.7, 6.7

Shore, Heather 1.3, 3.7, 3.7

Shoreditch 3.3

Shoreditch Rotation Office 6.7

Shrewsbury 6.5

Sideaway, Robert (criminal) 8.1

Siena, Kevin 1.3, 3.8, 4.2

Silvester, John (lawyer) 7.5

Simms, Henry (criminal) 4.9

Simpson, George (criminal) 3.5, 3.5

Sirr, Charlotte (pauper) 6.4

Slack, Paul 1.3

Smith, Alexander 3.5

Lives of the Most Noted Highwaymen 3.5

Smith, Bruce 8.2, 8.3

Smith, John (criminal, tried 1715) 3.2

Smith, John (criminal, tried 1773) 6.8

Smith, John (murdered infant) 5.10

Smith, John (pauper) 6.4

Smith, Mary (criminal) 7.5

Smith, Samuel 4.3

Smith, William (author)

State of the Gaols 6.8

Smith, William (criminal) 5.5

smuggling 6.8

Soames, Daniel (informer) 3.6

Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor 8.3

Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) 2.6, 2.7, 3.7, 3.8, 4.4, 4.7

An Account of Several Workhouses 3.8

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) 2.6

Society of Porters 2.4

Sokoll, Thomas 1.3

solicitors see lawyers

Solomons, Lea Joseph (criminal) 7.4

Soly, Hugo 1.3

Some Considerations of the Fatal Effects … of the Present Excess of Publick Charities 5.10

South Sea Bubble 3.1, 3.5

South Sea Company 7.3

Southwark 2.3, 5.1, 6.3

Southwark house of correction 6.8

Sparkes, Anne (pauper) 6.6

Spiggot, William (criminal) 3.5

Spitalfields see St Mary Spitalfields

sponging houses 3.5

Squires, Mary (criminal and victim) 5.4

Stagg, William 3.7

Stanton, John (criminal) 5.9

Stanton, Sarah 5.9

statutes

1 & 2 Phil & Mar, c. 13 (1554–5) [Marian Bail statute] 6.7

2 & 3 Phil & Mar, c. 10 (1555) [Marian Bail statute] 6.7

14 Chas II, c. 12 (1662) [Settlement Act] 2.4

3 & 4 Wm & M, c. 9 (1691) [Benefit of Clergy Act] 2.7

3 & 4 Wm & M, c. 11 (1692) [Poor Law Act] 2.4, 2.4

4 & 5 Wm & M, c. 8 (1692) [Apprehending of Highwaymen Act] 2.7

8 & 9 Wm III, c. 30 (1697) [Poor Law Act] 2.4, 2.4

10 & 11 Wm III, c. 18 (1699) [Vagrancy Costs Act] 2.5, 5.7

10 & 11 Wm III, c. 23 (1699) [Shoplifting Act] 2.7

5 Anne, c. 6 (1706) [Hard Labour Act] 2.7, 3.3

5 Anne, c. 31 (1706) [Apprehending of Housebreakers and Burglars Act] 2.7

9 Anne, c. 17 (1710) [Act for Fifty New Churches] 3.2, 3.3

13 Anne, c. 26 (1714) [Vagrancy Act] 5.8

1 Geo I, c. 5 (1715) [Riot Act] 3.1, 3.2, 3.2, 3.3, 3.7, 3.9, 4.6, 4.7, 5.4, 5.7, 7.3, 7.3

4 Geo I, c. 11 (1718) [Transportation Act] 1.3, 2.7, 3.1, 3.3, 3.3, 3.3, 5.8

9 Geo I, c. 7 (1723) [Workhouse Test Act] 3.1, 3.8

2 Geo II, c. 17 (1729) [Gin Act] 4.7

9 Geo II, c. 23 (1736) [Gin Act] 4.1, 4.7

9 Geo II, c. 36 (1736) [Mortmain Act] 4.5

10 Geo II, c. 17 (1737) [Gin Act] 4.7

13 Geo II, c. 24 (1740) [Vagrancy Act] 5.8

16 Geo II, c. 8 (1743) [Gin Act] 4.7, 5.5

17 Geo II, c. 5 (1744) [Vagrancy Act] 5.8

24 Geo II, c. 40 (1751) [Gin Act] 5.5, 5.6

25 Geo II, c. 36 (1752) [Disorderly Houses Act] 5.5, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7

25 Geo II, c. 37 (1752) [Murder Act] 5.1, 5.5, 5.5, 5.8, 5.9

26 Geo II, c. 33 (1753) [Marriage Act] 5.10

2 Geo III, c. 22 (1762) [Register of Poor Children Act] 5.10, 6.4

5 Geo III, c. 48 (1765) [Spitalfields Act] 6.3

7 Geo III, c. 39 (1767) [Regulation of Poor Children Act] 6.4

13 Geo III, c. 68 (1773) [Spitalfields Act] 6.3

14 Geo III, c. 59 (1774) [Health of Prisoners Act] 6.8

16 Geo III, c. 43 (1776) [Hulks Act] 7.1

18 Geo III, c. 60 (1778) [Catholic Relief Act] 7.2

19 Geo III, c. 74 (1779) [Penitentiary Act] 1.4, 7.2, 8.2

32 Geo III, c. 45 (1792) [Vagrancy Act] 8.2, 8.2

32 Geo III, c. 53 (1792) [Middlesex Justices Act] 6.7, 8.2

35 Geo III, c. 101 (1795) [Poor Law Act] 8.2, 8.3

42 Geo III, c. 73 (1802) [Health and Morals of Apprentices Act] 8.1

stealing from a dwelling house 7.5

Steele, Richard 3.5

Stephens, Robert (prison keeper) 6.8

Stepney 3.3

Stevens, Samuel (criminal) 6.7

Stevenson, William (criminal) 7.6

Stobbart, William 7.7

Stokes, Mary (pauper) 5.8

Stokes, Sarah (pauper) 5.8

Stonecutters Street 6.4

Strand 2.3, 2.3, 5.4, 5.7

Stroud, Henry (criminal) 6.3

Strut, Elizabeth (criminal) 6.8

Styles, John 6.6

summary justice 8.2, 8.3

Sun Tavern 5.7

Sun-Tavern Fields 6.3

Surgeons’ Hall 5.5

Surman, Elizabeth (pauper) 6.4

Surprise (transportation ship) 7.9

Swift (transportation ship) 1.1, 7.7

Swift, Jonathan 3.5

Clever Tom Clinch Going to be Hanged 3.5

Swift, Michael (criminal) 6.8, 7.2, 7.2

Tattingstone House of Industry 8.3

taverns see Brown Bear; Dolphin; Globe; Indian Queen; Rummer; Sun; Three Tuns; Well and Bucket

Taylor, James Stephen 1.3, 6.4

Taylor, John (Ordinary of Newgate) 5.2, 5.3

Taylor, Thomas (captain) 6.3

Taylor, Thomas (pauper) 6.4

Taylor, William (criminal) 4.8, 5.9

Tenison, Thomas 2.3

Thames Police Office 8.2

theft 1.2, 2.2, 2.7, 3.7, 5.9, 6.2, 7.2

theft of lead from houses 4.3

Thelusson’s Bank 7.3

thief-takers 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.3, 2.7, 2.8, 3.3, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9, 4.1, 4.5, 4.8, 4.8, 4.9, 5.1, 5.5, 5.7, 5.11, 6.7, 6.7

corrupt activities of 4.8, 5.6, 5.6

plebeian opposition to 4.9, 5.6

Thomas, Mary 2.6

Thompson, Edward 1.4, 8.3

Thomson, William (Recorder of London) 3.3

Thorne, Elizabeth (prostitute) 2.3

Thornton, Mary 4.5

Three Tuns (tavern) 6.7

Thruckstone, John 4.2

Tidcomb, Mary (criminal) 4.7

Tidd, William (criminal) 5.6

Tite, Mary (pauper) 2.4

Tomkins, Alannah 1.3

Tompkins, Charles (pauper) 2.4

Tothill Fields Bridewell 1.1, 2.3, 2.7, 3.6, 3.7, 5.9, 6.6, 6.8

numbers committed to 2.3

Tottenham Court Road 6.4

Tottenham High Cross 6.4

workhouse 4.2

Tower Division Rotation Office 6.7

Tower Hamlets 2.3, 2.3

Tower Hill 5.5

Tower of London 6.3

Towers, Charles (criminal) 3.5

Townshend, Charles (Second Viscount Townshend) 3.4, 3.7

Townshend, James 6.3

Townshend, Thomas (First Viscount Sydney) 7.3, 7.11

transportation 1.1, 1.4, 3.8, 7.9, 8.3

attitudes towards 3.3, 5.9, 6.7

interruption of, to America 7.1, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.11

mutinies during 1.1, 3.3, 7.7

patterns and fluctuations of 5.9, 5.9, 6.7, 7.1, 7.7

to Africa 1.1, 7.4, 7.7, 7.10, 8.1

to America 2.7, 2.7, 3.3, 3.3, 6.8, 6.8

to Australia 1.1, 7.2, 7.4, 7.7, 7.10, 8.1, 8.1, 8.3

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle 5.1

Treaty of Paris 5.11, 6.1

Treaty of Utrecht 3.1

Trenter, William 7.6

Tristram, Abraham (informer) 5.7

Troughton, John (JP) 3.7

Turner, Barnard 7.6

Turner, John (criminal) 3.5

turnpike riots 5.1

Twisleton, Thomas 7.3

Tyburn 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 4.8, 5.3, 5.4, 5.9, 5.9, 5.10, 5.10, 5.11, 6.3, 6.3, 6.4, 6.8

abolition of executions at 7.6

riots 5.1, 5.5

Tyburn Ticket 2.7

Universal Spectator 3.5

vagrancy 1.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.4, 2.5, 5.1, 6.1, 6.7

prosecution of 5.7, 6.1, 6.5, 7.9, 8.2, 8.2

opposition to the 5.8, 6.6

Valloine, John (criminal) 6.3

Vandeput, George 5.4

Vaughan, Daniel 3.2

Vaughan, Edward (informer) 3.7, 3.7, 3.8

verdicts in criminal trials 6.7

patterns and fluctuations of 4.1, 5.11, 7.5

vestries

select vestries 3.3, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.5, 4.8

Victualing Office 7.3

Vigo (Spain) 3.3

Vobe, James (pauper, son), Jane (mother), Thomas jnr (brother), Thomas snr (father) 7.9

Wager, Charles 4.6

wages 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.3, 6.6, 8.1

Walker, Charlotte (criminal) 1.3, 7.5, 8.2

Walker, Elizabeth (criminal) 3.7

Walker, Israel 5.4

Waller, John (informer) 4.8

Walpole, Horace 5.3, 5.3, 5.5, 6.3

Walpole, Robert 3.1

War of the Austrian Succession 5.1

Warner, Jessica 4.7

Warwick Street 7.3

watch see night watch

Watson, Theophilus (criminal) 4.8

Watts, Ann (criminal) 3.3

weather 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

Webb, Beatrice and Sidney 1.3

Webb, Henry (criminal) 5.6

Webb, John 5.10

Weekly Journal or, British Gazeteer 3.5

Welch, Saunders (JP) 5.5, 6.7

Well and Bucket (tavern) 6.3

Welldy, Thomas 4.8

Wells cotton mill 8.1

Wells, Daniel (criminal) 2.7

Wells, Jane (criminal) 3.3

Wells, Susannah (criminal) 5.4

Wesley, John 5.3, 5.7, 5.7

West Indies 3.3

West, Charles 7.2

Westminster 1.1, 5.4, 6.3

Court of Burgesses 1.3, 3.7, 4.3, 4.3, 4.3, 4.4, 4.8

development of 3.7

Watch Acts 1.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.5, 5.8, 5.8

Westminster Abbey 6.5

Westminster Bridge 5.1, 5.11

Westminster Hall 3.3, 4.7

Westminster Infirmary 4.4, 4.5

Whaley, Elizabeth (criminal) 3.7

whipping 2.7, 3.3, 6.8, 7.6, 7.6, 7.9, 7.11, 8.2

attitudes towards 5.9, 5.9

patterns and fluctuations of 5.8, 7.6

Whistle, Mary (pauper) 1.1, 3.8, 3.8, 3.8

White, John (criminal) 7.2

White, Mary see Mary Cut-and-come-again

Whitechapel 3.2, 4.7, 5.7

Whitechapel Rotation Office 6.3, 6.3, 6.7

Whitefield, George 5.7

Whitehall Evening Post 5.3

Whiting, George 6.9

Whiting, Samuel 6.8

Wilberforce, William 7.8

Wild, Jonathan (thief-taker) 3.3, 3.3, 3.5, 3.6, 3.9, 4.8, 4.8

Wilkes, John 6.2, 6.4, 6.7, 7.3

Wilkinson, John (constable) 2.6

Wilkinson, Phenix (pauper) 2.4

Wilks, Robert (criminal) 2.7

William III, King 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

Williams, John 3.3

Williams, Rhynwick (’Monster’, criminal) 8.1

Willis, Michael (constable, criminal and thief-taker) 3.7

Willis, Robert 3.7

Willis, Thomas (constable, criminal, and thief-taker) 3.7

Wilmot, David (JP) 6.3, 6.3, 7.3

Wilson, John (criminal) 5.4

Wilson, Ralph 3.5

Winterbotham, William 7.3

Wood Street Compter 5.9, 7.2

Wood, Simon 3.6

Wood, William (criminal) 7.6

Woodcock, William 6.5

Woodward, Josiah 2.3, 2.6

Account of the Societies for Reformation of Manners 2.6

Wooldridge, Richard (criminal) 7.5

Workhouse Cruelty 3.8, 3.8

workhouses 3.8, 5.10, 6.8, 7.9

administration of 3.8

conditions in 3.8, 4.1, 4.3, 4.9

costs of 4.1, 4.2

development of 3.7, 3.8, 4.2, 6.5

population of 4.2

Worshipfull Society of Parish Clerks 6.4

Wreathock, William (criminal and lawyer) 4.5, 4.8

Wrexham 6.5

Wright, James (criminal) 3.5

Wright, Sampson (JP) 7.8, 8.2

Wrigley, E. A 1.3

Yexley, Elizabeth (pauper) 4.2

York 6.6

York, Archbishop of 7.3

York, Frances 6.6

Yorke, Philip (First Earl of Hardwicke) 5.4

Young, Mary (criminal) 4.7

Young, William 3.5

Younger, Thomas (criminal) 6.7

Zirker, Malvin 5.3