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  • Richard Freeman

    Date: 19 Dec 1730

    Crime:
    Highway robbery of Matthew Wilks.

    Tried at Yorkshire Assizes Summer 1730 and marked in Gaol Book as reprieved; may have been hanged the following December after an escape attempt.

    ASSI 41/2-85. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol 25, p 438. Criminal Chronology, p 46.

  • Joseph Askwith / Joseph Sherling / Joseph Sparling

    Date: 19 Dec 1730

    Crime:
    Highway robbery of Matthew Wilks.

    Tried at Yorkshire Assizes Summer 1730 and marked in Gaol Book as reprieved; may have been hanged the following December after an escape attempt.

    ASSI 41/2-85. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol 25, p 438. Criminal Chronology, p 46.

  • Abraham Clayton of Howden, 35

    Date: 11 Aug 1764

    Crime:
    Murder of his wife Elizabeth Clayton at the parish of Monk Fryston.

    The accused made a confession which he retracted on the gallows of having strangled her with a ribbon because she threatened to have him hanged for keeping company with another woman. See also TNA: ASSI 45/27/2/27-38.

    TNA: ASSI 41/5; ASSI 42/8. Calendar of Felons, 4 Aug 1764. London Evening Post, 14 Aug 1764. Newgate Calendar, p 348. Criminal Chronology, p 83 (with incorrect date of 15 Aug 1763).

  • Richard Varley

    Date: 28 Aug 1756

    Crime:
    Highway robbery (with David Evans) of Cornelius Bower.

    Varley was an accomplice of David Evans, hanged at the previous assizes, but his own trial was delayed owing to his suffering from fever. See also TNA: ASSI 45/25/4/162-167.

    TNA: ASSI 41/4; ASSI 42/7. Gazetteer and London Daily Advertiser, 10 Apr 1756; 4 Sep 1756. Criminal Chronology, p 65.

  • Thomas Jewitt / Thomas Jewett of Osbaldwick.

    Date: 13 Apr 1793

    Crime:
    Cattle stealing - 13 heifers around York.

    See also TNA: ASSI 45/38/1/105-109A. Jewett's son, Thomas Jewett junior, was hanged at York for rape in 1807.

    London Chronicle, 18 Apr 1793. Criminal Chronology, p 128.

  • Joseph Fisher, coal-miner

    Date: 16 Jan 1813

    Crime:
    Breaking and entering at night into the dwelling house of Samuel Moxon of Upper Whitley, Kirkheaton, and stealing money and butter on 4 Jul 1812.

    One of 14 Luddites hanged at York on 16 Jan 1813. Convicted on the evidence of informers, Earl Parkin and Samuel Parkin. Fisher was in the second batch of 7.

    Proceedings under the Special Commission at York, January 1813. Leeds Mercury, 23 Jan 1813.

  • John Batley, coal-miner

    Date: 16 Jan 1813

    Crime:
    Breaking and entering at night into the dwelling house of Samuel Moxon of Upper Whitley, Kirkheaton, and stealing money and butter on 4 Jul 1812.

    One of 14 Luddites hanged at York on 16 Jan 1813. Convicted on the evidence of informers, Earl Parkin and Samuel Parkin. Batley was in the second batch of 7.

    Proceedings under the Special Commission at York, January 1813. Leeds Mercury, 23 Jan 1813.

  • John Swallow, coal-miner

    Date: 16 Jan 1813

    Crime:
    Breaking and entering at night into the dwelling house of Samuel Moxon of Upper Whitley, Kirkheaton, and stealing money and butter on 4 Jul 1812.

    One of 14 Luddites hanged at York on 16 Jan 1813. Convicted on the evidence of informers, Earl Parkin and Samuel Parkin. Swallow was in the second batch of 7.

    Proceedings under the Special Commission at York, January 1813. Leeds Mercury, 23 Jan 1813.

  • William Jackson, former private in 77th Regiment of Foot, 29

    Date: 18 Aug 1874

    Crime:
    Murder of his sister, Elizabeth Jackson, 16, at Kirklington, near Ripon, on 5 May 1874.

    Jackson was the son of George Jackson, a farm labourer of Carthorpe. Jackson's was the first execution at York within the Castle grounds; a black flag was hoisted over Clifford's Tower when he was hanged and lowered when his body was cut down.

    Leeds Mercury, 1 Aug 1874; 8 Aug 1874; 19 Aug 1874.

  • John Bolton of Bulmer, near Castle Howard, an Irishman, and Lieutenant in the 1st regiment of the West Riding militia

    Date: 29 Mar 1775

    Crime:
    Murder of Elizabeth Rainbow of Ackworth, singlewoman and apprentice to the accused, at Bulmer, by strangling her with his hands and a cord and soldier's fife.

    The victim had been hired by Bolton from the Foundling Hospital at Ackworth and was pregnant with his child when she was killed; Bolton hanged himself in York Castle before the death sentence could be carried out. See also TNA: ASSI ASSI 45/32/1/10-29.

    TNA: ASSI 41/6; ASSI 42/9. General Evening Post, 1 Apr 1775. Jackson, Newgate Calendar, 1795, vol 5, p 149. Criminal Chronology, p 88.

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  • Joseph Gilley of Scarborough, carpenter

    Date: Lent 1741

    Crime:
    Forgery of a will; reprieved 14 years Summer 1741.

    Jointly charged with George Bainton of Scarborough, attorney, who was hanged on 11 Apr 1741.

    TNA: ASSI 41/4.

  • William Donkan / William Doncan / William Dunkan

    Date: Lent 1747

    Crime:
    Breaking and entering (with Thomas Parker) the dwelling house of Frances Mainprice, widow, and stealing a silver cup valued at 4 guineas; reprieved 14 years Summer 1747.

    Subsequently returned from transportation and was convicted of house breaking; hanged at York 10 Aug 1751.

    TNA: ASSI 41/3; ASSI 41/4.

  • Abraham Dealtry

    Date: Lent 1745

    Crime:
    Highway robbery of Susanna Shackleton at Pontefract; death.

    Dealtry was hanged at York in Apr 1745 but revived after being cut down. He was afterwards reprieved and sentenced to transportation for life.

    TNA: ASSI 41/3; ASSI 41/4. Newcastle Courant, 13 Apr 1745.

  • Thomas Clark / John Sanderson / John Saunderson

    Date: Lent 1747

    Crime:
    Stealing 6 silver spoons and a gold ring valued at 15s from the dwelling house of John Wharton; transportation 7 years Lent 1747.

    Subsequently found guilty of being at large while under sentence of transportation and also of horse stealing; hanged at York 25 Mar 1749.

    TNA: ASSI 41/3; ASSI 41/4.

  • Richard Clark, suspected deserter from 66th Regiment, born at Spital, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, in 1739

    Date: Lent 1759

    Crime:
    Highway robbery: assaulting and demanding money with menaces from Robert Fisher; transportation 7 years Lent 1759.

    Was hanged at York on 18 Apr 1767, having been convicted of house-breaking; confessed that he came from a family of habitual thieves and returning transports; by his own account he had been sentenced to and returned from transportation to Maryland or Virginia three times

    TNA: ASSI 41/4; ASSI 42/7. Calendar of Felons, 28 Jul 1759. London Evening Post, 21 Apr 1767.

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