LIST OF TRIALS. (Part I) This list is a follow up to the first release of execute.txt, listing executions carried out in England from 1606 to 1895 but may not be comprehensive. All the information contained here is extracted from the publication `HAYDN`S DICTIONARY OF DATES`, 21st Edition, to the Autumn of 1895. Published by WARD, LOCK, AND BOWDEN LIMITED 1895. As the list of trials is quite large, I have decided to split the topic into smaller, more compact files to make it easier to download. All files will have the title 'List of Trials. (Part *) * = part number. E-Mail address: paul@yeoldesussexpages.co.uk The capital letters (MI) in the comments section mean that other information is available should it be required. E-mail / snail mail me. Regulations for conducting trials were made by LOTHAIRE and EDRIC, kings of Kent, about 673 to 680. ALFRED the GREAT is said to have begun trial by jury; but there is good evidence of such trials before his time. Arrangements were made for much more speedy trials by "the Winter Assizes Act," 1876. This is a list of the more remarkable trials conducted at the dates mentioned and as with the list of executions, will not be comprehensive. Some of the names in this text file will also be found in the list of executions where sentance of death was given. Name(s) Date Comments King Charles I, condemned 27 Jan , 1649 Richard Langhorne, counsellor, convicted 14 June , 1679 Sir George Wakeman, the Queens physician; acquitted 13 July , 1679 Viscount Stafford, convicted 30 Nov-7 Dec , 1681 William Lord Russell, Rye House Plot; convicted 13 July , 1683 Algernon Sudney, Rye House Plot 21 Nov , 1683 The Seven Bishops, acquitted 29 June , 1688 Captain Porteous, murder; Capt. Porteous, at Edinburgh, on 15th April, 1736, commanded the guard at the execution of Wilson, a smuggler, who had saved the life of a fellow criminal. This excited great commiseration, and the spectators pelted the guards with stones. Fearing a rescue, Porteous ordered his men to fire upon the mob, and seventeen persons were killed or wounded. He was found guilty of murder, 22nd June, but the Queen granted him a reprieve (the King being then at Hanover). The people, at night, broke open the prison and hanged Porteous on a Dyer`s sign post, in the Grass-market, 7th September 1736. None of the rioters were ever detected. 22 June , 1736 Jenny Diver, for felony; executed 18 March, 1740 William Duell, executed for murder at Tyburn, but who came back to life when about undergoing dissection at surgeons` hall 24 Nov , 1740 Lord Kilmarnock, High Treason 28 July , 1746 Lord Balmerino, High Treason 28 July , 1746 Mary Hamilton, for marrying her own sex, 14 wives 7 Oct , 1746 Lord Lovatt, 80 years of age, high treason; beheaded 9 March, 1747 Freney, celebrated Irish robber who surrended himself 9 July , 1749 Amy Hutchinson, burnt at Ely, for the murder of her husband 5 Nov , 1750 Miss Blandy, murder of her father, hanged 3 March, 1752 Ann Williams, murder of her husband; burnt alive 11 April, 1753 Eugene Aram, for murder at York; executed 13 Aug , 1759 Earl Ferrers, for the murder of his steward; executed 16 April, 1760 Mr MacNaughten, at Strabane, for the murder of Miss Knox 8 Dec , 1761 Ann Bedingfield, for the murder of her husband; burnt alive 6 April, 1763 Mr Wilkes, Alderman of London, for an obscene poem 21 Feb , 1764 Murderers, for murder of Captain Glas, his wife, daughter, mate, and passengers, on board the ship EARL OF SANDWICH, at sea 3 March, 1766 Elizabeth Brownrigg, murder of one of her female apprentices; hanged 12 Sept , 1767 Lord Baltimore, the Libertine, and his female accomplices for rape 28 March, 1768 Hamilton & Douglas, great cause between the families 27 Feb , 1769 Elizabeth Herring, murder of her husband; hanged, and afterwards burnt at Tyburn 13 Sept , 1773 Messrs Perreau, brothers; bankers, forgery; hanged 17 Jan , 1776 Duchess of Kingston, for marrying two husbands; Guilty; was arraigned before the Lords in Westminster Hall, on a charge of bigamy, having married first, Capt. Hervey, afterwards Earl of Bristol, and next, durring his lifetime, Eveyln Pierrepont, Duke of Kingston. On pleading the privilage of peerage, the punishment of burning in the hand was remitted. Discharged on paying the fees 15 April, 1776 Dr. Dodd, for forging a bond of 4200l. in the name of the Earl of Chesterfield, 22nd Feb; executed 27 June , 1777 Admiral Keppel, by court-martial; honourably acquitted 11 Feb , 1779 Mr. Hackman, for the murder of Miss Reay, when coming out of the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden 16 Apr , 1779 Lord George Gordon, on a charge of high treason; acquitted 5 Feb , 1781 Capt.John Donellan, for murder of Sir Theodosius Boughton; executed 2 Apr , 1781 Mr. Woodfall, the celebrated printer, for a libel on Lord Loughborough, afterwards Lord Chancellor 10 Nov , 1786 Lord George Gordon, for a libel on the Queen of France; guilty 28 Jan , 1788 Mr Warren Hsatings, a trial which lasted seven years and three months; Governor-general of India, was tried by the peers of Great Britain for high crimes and misdemeanours; Acquitted. commenced 13th Feb 1788 13 Feb , 1788 Renwick Williams, called the MONSTER, for stabbing women in London 8 July , 1790 Barrington, the pickpocket, most extraordinary adept; transported 22 Sept , 1790 Thomas Paine, political writer and deist, for libels in the `Rights of Man`; guilty 18 Dec , 1792 Archibald.H Rowan, for libel, imprisoned and fined 29 Jan , 1794 Mr. Purefoy, for the murder of Colonel Roper in a duel; acquitted 14 Aug , 1794 Mr Robert Watt and Downie, at Edinburgh for treason 3 Sept , 1794 Messrs Hardy, Horne Tooke, Thelwall, and Joyce for high treason; acquitted 29 Oct , 1794 Earl of Abingdon, for his libel on Mr. .Serman ; guilty 6 Dec , 1794 Major Semple, alias Lisle, for felony 18 Feb , 1795 Redhead Yorke, at York, libel 27 Nov , 1795 Lord Westmeath v. Bradshaw for criminal conspiracy ; damages, 10,000l 4 Mar , 1796 Lord Valentia v. Mr Gawler for adultery, damages 2000l 16 June , 1796 Daniel Issac Eaton, for libels on kingly government; guilty 8 July , 1796 Sir Godfrey Webster v. Lord Holland, for adultery; damages 6000l 27 Feb , 1797 Parker, the mutineer at the Nore, called Admiral Parker 27 June , 1797 Boddington v. Boddington for criminal conspiracy; damages 10,000l 5 Sept , 1797 William Orr, at Carrickfergus, for high treason; executed 12 Oct , 1797 Mrs. Phepoe, alias Benson, murderess 9 Dec , 1797 .The murderers of Col.St.George & Mr.Uniacke at Cork 15 Apr , 1798 Arthur O`Conner and O`Coigley, at Maidstone for treason; latter hanged 21 May , 1798 Sir Edward Crosbie, and others for high treason; hanged 1 June , 1798 Beauchamp.Bagenal Harvey, at Wexford, for high treason 21 June , 1798 Two Messrs Sheares, at Dublin for high treason; executed 12 July , 1798 Theobald.Woulffe Tone, by court-martial(committed suicide, died on the19th) 10 Nov , 1798 Sir Harry. Brown Hayes, for carrying off Miss Pike of Cork 13 Apr , 1800 Hatfield, for shooting at King GEORGE III at Drury-lane theatre; Confirmed as a lunatic till his death 23rd Jan, 1841(MI) 26 June , 1800 Mr. Tighe, of Westmeath v. Jones, for criminal conspiracy ; damages 10,000l 2 Dec , 1800 Mutineers at Bantry Bay, hanged (MI) 8 Jan , 1802 Govenor Wall, for cruelty and murder, twenty years before. Was hanged in London 28th Jan 1802, for the murder of Sergeant ARMSTRONG, committed while Govenor at Goree in 1782 20 Jan , 1802 Crawley, for the murder of two females in Peter`s row, Dublin 6 Mar , 1802 Colonel Despard, and his associates, for high treason; hanged at the top of Horsemonger-lane gaol: Others include Francis, Broughton, Graham, Macnamara, Wood, and Wratten, conspired to kill the King, and establish a Republic; Altogether 30 were taken into custody; of those tried 20th Jan 1803, Despard and six others were executed on 21st Feb. He had been a distinguished officer under Nelson. 7 Feb , 1803 M. Peltier, for libel on Bonaparte, first consul of France; guilty 21 Feb , 1803 Robert Aslett, cashier at the Bank of England, for embezzlement and frauds; the loss to the bank 320,000l; found not guilty, on account of the validity of the bills 18 July , 1803 Robert Emmett, at Dublin, for high treason; executed next day 19 Sept , 1803 Keenan, one of the murderers of Lord Kilwarden; hanged 2 Oct , 1803 Mr. Smith, for the murder of the supposed Hammersmith Ghost 13 Jan , 1804 Lockhart and Laudon Gordon, for carrying off Mrs.Lee 6 Mar , 1804 Rev. C. Massy v. Marquis of Headfort, for criminal conspiracy; damages 10,000l 27 July , 1804 William Cooper, the Hackney Monster, for offences against females 17 Apr , 1805 General Picton, for applying the torture to Louisa Calderon to extort confession, at Trinidad, tried in the court of King`s Bench; Guilty, new trial, same verdict, 11 June 1808 24 Feb , 1806 Mr Patch, for the murder of his partner, Mr Bligh 6 Apr , 1806 Lord Melville, impeached by the house of commons; acquitted 12 June , 1806 Hamilton Rowan, pleaded the King`s pardon. Dublin 1 July , 1806 Palm, the bookseller, by a French military commission at Brennau 26 Aug , 1806 Judge Johnson, for a libel on the Earl of Hardwicke; guilty 23 Nov , 1806 Lord Cloncurry v. Sir John B. Piers, for Criminal conspiracy; damages 20,000l 19 Feb , 1807 Holloway & Haggerty, the murderers of Mr.Steele; thirty persons were crushed to death at their execution at the Old Bailey 20 Feb , 1807 Sir Home Popham, by court-martial; reprimanded 7 Mar , 1807 Knight v. Dr. Wolcot, alias Peter Pindar, for criminal conspiracy 27 June , 1807 Lieut. Berry, of H.M.S. Hazard; for an unnatural offence 2 Oct , 1807 Lord Elgin v. Ferguson, for criminal conspiracy; damages 10,000l 22 Dec , 1807 Simmons, the murderer of the Boreham family at Hoddesdon 4 Mar , 1808 Sir Arthur Paget, for criminal conspiracy with Lady Borrington 14 July , 1808 Major Campbell, for killing Captain Boyd in a duel; hanged 4 Aug , 1808 Peter Finnerty, and others, for a libel on the Duke of York 9 Nov , 1808 Duke of York, by inquiry in the house of commons, on charges referred against him by Colonel WARDLE, from 26 Jan to 20 March, 1809 Wellesley v. Lord Paget, for criminal conspiracy; damages 20,000l 12 May , 1809 The King v. Valentine Jones, for breach of duty as commissary-general 26 May , 1809 Wright v. Colonel Wardle for Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke`s furniture 1 June , 1809 The Earl of Leicester v. Morning Herald, for a libel; damages 1000l 29 June , 1809 William Cobbett, for a libel on the German legion; convicted 9 July , 1809 Hon. Captain Lake, for putting Robert Jeffery, a british seaman, on shore at Sombrero (West Indies); dismissed the service (MI) 10 Feb , 1810 Mr. Perry, for libels in the Morning Chronicle; acquitted 24 Feb , 1810 Vere-street gang; for unnatural offences; guilty 20 Sept , 1810 Peter Finnerty, for a libel on Lord Castlereagh 31 Jan , 1810 The King v. Messrs. John & Leigh Hunt, for libels; guilty 22 Feb , 1810 Ensign Hepburn and White the drummer; both were executed 7 Mar , 1810 The King v. W. Cobbett, for libels; convicted 15 June , 1810 Lord Louth, in Dublin; sentenced to imprisonment and fine, for oppressive conduct as a magistrate 19 June , 1810 Dr. Sheridan, physician, on a charge of sedation; acquitted 21 Nov , 1810 Gale Jones, for seditious and blasphemous libels; convicted 26 Nov , 1810 William Cundell & John Smith, for high treason; wearing French uniforms. hanged and beheaded on the lodge of Horsemonger-lane gaol on the 16 March 1812. Last two cases of execution for high treason. (MI) 6 Feb , 1812 Daniel Issac Eaton, on a charge of blasphemy; convicted 6 Mar , 1812 Bellingham, for the murder of Mr.Perceval, prime minister 15 May , 1812 The King v. Mr.Lovell, of the Statesman, for libel; guilty 19 Nov , 1812 Messrs. John & Leigh Hunt, for libels in the Examiner; convicted 9 Dec , 1812 Marquis Sligo, for concealing a sea-deserter 16 Dec , 1812 The murderers of Mr. Horsfall; at York; executed 7 Jan , 1813 Mr.Hugh Fitzpatrick, for publishing Scully`s 'History of the Penal Laws' 6 Feb , 1813