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    Horsemonger Lane Gaol (also known as the Surrey County Gaol or the New Gaol) was a prison close to present-day Newington Causeway in Southwark, south...
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    a Swiss domestic servant who was hanged on the roof of London's Horsemonger Lane Gaol on 13 November 1849, after she and her husband were convicted of...
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  • executioner William Calcraft on 11 October 1870 at Horsemonger Lane Gaol (also known as Surrey County Gaol) in London. Waters was born in 1835 and lived in...
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    carried out at Tyburn, they occurred at Newgate Prison itself and at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Southwark. The first recorded execution took place at a site...
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    Surrey County Sessions in April 1831 and then committed to Horsemonger Lane Gaol. The gaol was demolished in 1881 and replaced by a public park, Newington...
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    1867. It should not be confused with the New Gaol, another name sometimes applied to Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Southwark, south London. Next-door was another...
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    backwards upon hay bales and bumped across the cobbled courtyard of Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Despard burst out laughing. The sentence was not passed again....
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    Surrey county gaol originally housed at the White Lion Inn (also informally called the Borough Gaol) and eventually at Horsemonger Lane Gaol. One other local...
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    including the Marshalsea and King's Bench Prisons, Borough Compter and Horsemonger Lane Gaol. Some wine cellars on Mitre Court were marketed as a party venue...
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    beheaded at Horsemonger Lane Gaol, they were first placed on sledges attached to horses, and ritually pulled in circuits around the gaol yards. Their...
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    Plot were hanged and decapitated on the roof of the gatehouse at Horsemonger Lane Gaol for allegedly plotting to assassinate King George III and launch...
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    with Blackman Street/Newington Causeway, and a short distance from Horsemonger Lane Gaol; today the site is occupied by the Scovell housing estate). Although...
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    pregnant wife, Eliza. After a pre-trial period spent in London's Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Minor was found not guilty by reason of insanity and incarcerated...
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    Moore: Written The Evening Before His Visit To Mr. Leigh Hunt in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, 19 May 1813". Hazlitt, William. The Complete Works of William Hazlitt...
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    Newington Butts and in the open space Newington Gardens, on the site of Horsemonger Lane Gaol (1791–1878). Newington as a ward currently is a name for one of...
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    pregnant wife, Eliza. After a pre-trial period spent in London's Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Minor was found not guilty by reason of insanity and incarcerated...
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  • original on July 7, 2014. Retrieved June 19, 2023. Norton, Rictor. "Bristol Gaol Delivery Fiats". Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook...
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    prime minister, on 5 May 1884. The park occupies the site where Horsemonger Lane Gaol was located for almost a century from 1791. Designed by George Gwilt...
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  • On 21 February 1803, 7 are hanged and decapitated publicly at Horsemonger Lane Gaol before a crowd of at least 20,000, making it one of the largest...
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  • late Medieval bridge The Camden Chapel, Camberwell (1796–1798) Horsemonger Lane Gaol and Sessions House, Newington Causeway, London (1791–1799 - demolished...
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    transported as convicts to Australia. The remaining seven executed at Horsemonger Lane Gaol. The road was home to Campbell Buildings, a Victorian estate which...
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  • Lane, Covent Garden as an oyster bar, making it London's oldest restaurant on its original site. 1799 Gunter's Tea Shop is in business. Horsemonger Lane...
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    first since 1700, when he hanged Marie and Frederick Manning at Horsemonger Lane Gaol on 13 November 1849. The couple had murdered Marie's wealthy lover...
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    Broughton, Arthur Graham, and John Macnamara. They were executed in Old Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Southwark on Monday 21 February 1803. In his seminal The Making...
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  • He was kept once more Coldbath Fields Prison, and his son was in Horsemonger Lane Gaol. On his release, Evans in partnership with Robert Wedderburn took...
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    together publicly before a large crowd by William Calcraft outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol for the crime. 13 December – foundation stone of Llandovery College...
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  • During the 730 days he served of his sentence at Newington and Horsemonger Lane gaols, he was often in great anguish according to his autobiography, but...
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  • Sir James Shaw Willes Court of Common Pleas justice John Jessop Horsemonger Lane Gaol chaplain Thomas Beggs Hon. Secretary of the Society for the Abolition...
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    Palmer then managed the theatre until 1789, when he was committed to Horsemonger Lane Gaol as "a rogue and a vagabond". It continued in use until 1810, although...
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    taken into custody for contempt of court and imprisoned at London's Horsemonger Lane Gaol. This action immediately transformed him in the eyes of Anglo-Catholics...
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