Acknowledgements and Notes on Sources Abbreviations Preface
1. From Newgate to Tyburn: Setting the Stage
Introduction; Discretion and the 'Bloody Code'; The Tyburn
Procession and Execution Ritual; Tyburn Fair: Mythology and
Histioriography
2. From the Gallows to Grub Street: Last Dying Speeches and
Criminal 'Lives'
Introduction;Origins of Printed Last Dying Speeches;Literacy in
Early Modern England;The Market for Criminal 'Lives' and
Confessions
3. Everyman and the Gallows: Contemporary Explanations for
Criminality
Introduction;The Slippery Slope;Nature
vs.Nuture;Excuses: Mental Incapacity, Necessity, Gender and Youth;
The Decline of the Criminal as 'Everyman'
4. Highwaymen Lives: Social Critique and the
Criminal
Introduction; The Robber as a Vehicle for Social Satire;Criminal
Celebrities;The Decline of the Haighwayman as a Social Critic
5. The Ordniary's Account: Confession and the
Criminal
Introduction;The Ordinary: Question-monger or
Plain Dealer?;The Value of a Free and Full Confession;The Decline
of the 'Account'
6. Dying Well: Martyrs and Penitents
Introduction;Dying in Charity with all the World;Religion in
Newgate: Popular Religious Beliefs and Religious Toleration and
Diversity;Methodism and the Decline of the Ordinary's Account
7. Dying Game: Highwaymen and Bridegrooms
Introduction;Dying like a Man;False Courage and Christian
Courage;Weddings and Hangings
8. God's Tribunal: Providential Discoveries and
Ordeals
Introduction;God's Justice and Man's Justice;Calling God to
Witness: Sacred Oaths and Signs;The Meaning of Suffering
Conclusion: The Adjournment of God's Tribunal
Tyburn is the most famous killing field in London. Here's its story in all its bloody glory.
Andrea McKenzie is Assistant Professor at the Department of
History, University of Victoria, Canada. She has published numerous
articles on crime and print culture in se
venteenth- and eighteenth century England, and is currently working
on a cultural history of English courage from the sixteenth to the
twentieth century.
There are useful chapters on dying speeches and criminal
biographies, contemporary theories of criminality, the rise of the
highwaymen, and the ritual of execution 'to provide a cultural
history of the seventeenth- and eighteenth century gallows and the
larger belief system underpinning it'(26).
*The Historian, 2010*
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