THE
NEWGATE CALENDAR
Rioters
and Arsonists
TOM TAYLOR
Who, getting literally hooked as a Pickpocket, turned House-breaker.
Executed 18th of December, 1691, for using Arson as a means to Theft
THOMAS COOK
Murdered a Constable during a Riot in Mayfair, and was executed on 11th of
August, 1703
JOHN HERMAN
BRIAN
Executed for robbing and burning the House of Peter Persode,
Esq., St James's Street, Westminster, in October,
1707
DANIEL DAMAREE, GEORGE PURCHASE, and FRANCIS WILLIS
Tried for High-Treason.
JULIAN
A Black Boy and Incendiary. Convicted 14th October 1724.
JOHN COLLINGTON
A Man of extraordinary Violence and Inhumanity. Executed at Canterbury with
his Accomplice, John Stone, for setting fire to a Barn
BOSAVERN PENLEZ
Executed for rioting, 18th October, 1749
PETER PATTISON
Executed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5th of October, 1761, for being concerned
in a Riot at Hexham
WILLIAM
HAWKINS AND JOSEPH WILD
Indicted for rioting, July, 1768
JAMES MURPHY
AND JOHN DOGAN
Executed for Being Concerned in Wilkes's Riots, July 11th, 1768
JAMES HILL
Commonly called "John the Painter," an Incendiary, who aimed at
the Destruction of the Nation. Executed at Portsmouth, 10th of March, 1777
JOHN PIERCE,
VINCENT PIERCE AND ELIZABETH LUKER
Sentenced to Imprisonment for a Riot at Sadler's Wells Theatre which
occasioned the Death of Eighteen of the Audience
LORD GEORGE
GORDON
An Account of the Riots in London in 1780
EDWARD LOWE
AND WILLIAM JOBBINS
Young Incendiaries, who set fire to a House in order to plunder it, and were
executed in the City, 20th of November, 1790
THE REV.
RICHARD BURGH, JOHN CUMMINGS, ESQ., CAPTAIN IN THE
ARMY, TOWNLEY M'CAN, ESQ., STUDENT OF LAW, JAMES DAVIS AND JOHN BOURNE
Convicted of a Conspiracy to set fire to the King's Bench Prison, February,
1793
KID WAKE
Convicted and imprisoned for an assault upon his Majesty, on the 20th of
February, 1796
JOHN SHEPHERD
Convicted, at Lancaster, of a Riot and setting fire to the Prison, June,
1808
JOHN RYAN AND
MATHEW KEARINGE
Executed in Ireland, for Arson and Murder, 1808
BENJAMIN
RENSHAW
Executed, after an Abortive Attempt, at Nottingham, 29th of August, 1812,
for setting fire to a Haystack
CASHMAN,
HOOPER, GAMBLE, GUNNELL, CARPENTER, HUNT, AND WATSON
The Spafields rioters, 1817
SAMUEL SIBLEY;
MARIA CATHERINE SIBLEY; SAMUEL JONES; his son; THOMAS JONES; JOHN ANGEL; THOMAS
SMITH; JAMES DODD and EDWARD SLATER
Deluded followers of Joanna Southcott, the sham prophetess, tried for
rioting, 13th of January, 1819
LEWIS LEWIS,
RICHARD LEWIS, DAVID HUGHES, THOMAS VAUGHAN, DAVID THOMAS, AND OTHERS
The Merthyr Tydfil rioters, June 1831
JONATHAN
SMITHERS
Executed 9th of July, 1832, for setting fire to his Shop in Oxford Street,
and causing the Death of Three People
GEORGE FURSEY
Acquitted of stabbing two policement during the Calthorpe Street Riot, 30th May 1833
THOMAS MEARS
AND OTHERS
The Canterbury Rioters, 31st May 1838.
THE LUDDITES
Guilty of Rioting and Administering Unlawful Oaths.
CHARLES THOMAS
WHITE
Executed for Arson.
JONATHAN
MARTIN
A Madman who Set Fire to York Minster.
COUNTRY RIOTS,
OWING TO THE HIGH PRICE OF PROVISIONS IN THE YEAR 1766
With an Account of The Execution of Some of the Rioters
JOHN MEAD
The Boy Incendiary, Executed before Newgate, August 31, 1791, for Setting
Fire to his Master's House
EDWARD M'ELROY
Indicted for Setting Fire to a Car-house
RIOTS OF THE
MANCHESTER WEAVERS
The King against Hanson, Lancaster Lent Assizes, 1809
AGRICULTURAL
RIOTS
The Followers of "Captain Swing"
THE REFORM
RIOTS
1831-2.
THE BIRMINGHAM
RIOTS
13th of July 1839
THE CHARTIST
RIOTS
1839-40.
