Bosavern Penlez (1726–1749) was a British wig maker who was convicted and executed for rioting along with co-defendant John Wilson. He was sentenced to...

General History of the Stage John Cleland The Case of the Unfortunate Bosavern Penlez Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or, Fanny Hill (unexpurgated, suppressed...

in the high-profile attempt to secure the body of condemned rioter Bosavern Penlez for dissection in 1749. Aside from the over-enthusiastic dissection...

shoulder. Willes was known as a hanging judge – he had refused mercy for Bosavern Penlez in the cause célèbre of 1749, but was equally famed as a rake, and...