The Seven Bishops, acquitted
29 June , 1688
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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
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Arthur O`Conner and O`Coigley, at Maidstone for treason; latter hanged
21 May , 1798
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Sir Edward Crosbie, and others for high treason; hanged
1 June , 1798
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Beauchamp.Bagenal Harvey, at Wexford, for high treason
21 June , 1798
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Two Messrs Sheares, at Dublin for high treason; executed
12 July , 1798
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Theobald.Woulffe Tone, by court-martial(committed suicide, died on the19th)
10 Nov , 1798
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Sir Harry. Brown Hayes, for carrying off Miss Pike of Cork
Hatfield, for shooting at King GEORGE III at Drury-lane theatre;
Confirmed as a lunatic till his death 23rd Jan, 1841