The Newgate Calendar Vol. 3

THE NEWGATE CALENDAR

Edited by Donal Ó Danachair

Volume 3

Published by the Ex-classics Project, 2009 

http://www.exclassics.com 

Public Domain

A View Of New Newgate Prison

CONTENTS

HENRY COOK Notorious Horse-Stealer and Highwayman, executed at Tyburn,  

16th of December, 1741 9 

JONATHAN BRADFORD Executed at Oxford for a Murder he had contemplated  

but did not commit 13 

JOHN BODKIN, DOMINICK BODKIN AND OTHERS Executed in Ireland on  

26th of March, 1742, for the Murder of Eleven Persons 15 

THOMAS LYELL AND LAWRENCE SYDNEY Swindlers, who cheated with  

Loaded Dice and were pilloried for Fraud, 2nd of June, 1742 16 

ROBERT RAMSEY Highwayman, and a singular Cheat. Executed at Tyburn on the  

13th of June, 1742 18 

JOHN JENNINGS Executed at York, in the year 1742, on a charge of robbery, of  

which he was innocent. 21 

ROBERT FULLER Convicted of shooting Mr Bailey, June Sessions, 1743, and  

pardoned because he was wrongly identified 22 

WILLIAM CHETWYND A Curious Case of a Schoolboy who killed another Boy  

during a Quarrel about a Cake, and was convicted of Manslaughter, October, 1743 24 

LYDIA ADLER Burned in the Hand for killing her Husband, who had four Wives. 27 

PATRICK BOURKE AND GEORGE ELLIS Executed at Tyburn, 20th of February,  

1745, for Sheep-Stealing 28 

MARTHA TRACY Executed for a Street Robbery 30 

MATTHEW HENDERSON Executed in Oxford Street, 25th of February, 1746, for  

murdering his Mistress, Lady Dalrymple, who was angry because he trod on her Toe. 

33 

MARY HAMILTON A Woman who was imprisoned and whipped for marrying  

Fourteen Women, 1746 35 

THE SECOND REBELLION OF THE PRETENDER TO THE BRITISH THRONE  

in the year 1745. 36 

CHARLES RATCLIFFE Who assumed the title of Earl of Derwentwater 60 

THOMAS CAPPOCK The rebel bishop of Carlisle. 63 

THE ESCAPE OF THE PRETENDER After the Battle of Culloden 66 

LORD LOVAT Beheaded for High Treason, at the age of Eighty, on 9th of April,  

1747 70 

FRANCIS TOWNLEY, JEMMY DAWSON AND OTHERS Lesser rebels against  

his Majesty 74 

JOSEPH RAWLINS, alias GREAT JOE A daring and notorious Smuggler, executed  

at Winchester, October 10, 1748 for burglary. 81 

GEORGE LANCASTER Executed at Tyburn, 16th of November, 1747, for forging a  

Seaman's Will, in order to rob his Wife and Child 84 

HOSEA YOUELL Executed at Tyburn, Nov. 16, 1747, for murder. 86 

HENRY SIMMS The Extraordinary Career of a Youth, who was executed at Tyburn,  

16th of November, 1747, after returning from Transportation, for Highway Robbery 

88 

SERJEANT SMITH An English Deserter to the French, shot in the Park on the 11th  

day of December, 1747. 92 

WILLIAM WHURRIER Executed at Tyburn for murder, March 7, 1748, and his  

body hung in chains on Finchley common. (A Hard Case.) 94 

WILLIAM YORK "The Boy Murderer," convicted of the Murder of another Child in  

the Poorhouse of Eyke, in Suffolk, May, 1748 96 

GEORGE COCK A most Plausible Scoundrel, executed at Tyburn, 13th of June,  

1748, for privately stealing 98 

THOMAS THOMPSON Executed at Tyburn, Oct. 24, 1748, for horse-stealing. 100 

JOHN WHITMORE AND JEREMIAH DAWES of the University of Oxford.  

Convicted and punished for Sedition, 28th of November, 1748 102 

THE THIEF, THE PRIESTS, AND THE GREAT KING OF PRUSSIA An Anecdotal  

Fact, and a touch at Superstition. 104 

JOHN YOUNG Executed for Forgery, at Edinburgh, 19th December, 1748 105 

BENJAMIN TAPNER, JOHN COBBY, JOHN HAMMOND, RICHARD MILLS,  

RICHARD MILLS THE YOUNGER, AND OTHERS Revengeful Smugglers, who  

were executed for a Diabolical Murder, 18th of January, 1749 108 

USHER GAHAGAN AND TERENCE CONNER Erudite Men, who were executed  

for High Treason, in diminishing the Current Coin of the Realm, 28th of February ,  

1749 114 

BRIAN SEYMOUR Executed for murder, 2nd March, 1749 116 

JOHN COLLINGTON A Man of extraordinary Violence and Inhumanity. Executed at  

Canterbury with his Accomplice, John Stone, for setting fire to a Barn 118 

RICHARD COLEMAN Who was executed on Kennington Common, in Surrey, 12th  

of April, 1749, for a Murder he did not commit. 122 

THOMAS KINGSMILL, FAIRALL AND PERIN Three of the thirty Smugglers who  

broke open the Custom-House at Poole, and were executed at Tyburn, 26th of April,  

1749 125 

SAMUEL COUCHMAN AND JOHN MORGAN, LIEUTENANTS OF MARINES,  

THOMAS KNIGHT, CARPENTER, AND OTHERS Part of the Crew of His  

Majesty's Ship Chesterfield, shot at Portsmouth, for mutiny, July 14, 1749. 127