Capitally convicted

LENT CIRCUIT.

At Maidstone assizes, four were capitally convicted, two of whom were reprieved before the judge left the town.

At Chelmsford assizes, eleven were capitally convicted.

At Aylesbury assizes, five were capitally convicted, three of whom were reprieved.

At Bedford assizes, one was capitally convicted.

At the assizes at Cambridge, two were capitally convicted; a person for an attempt to commit a rape upon a child, was sentenced to suffer a year's imprisonment, and to the payment of a fine.

At Huntingdon assizes, three were capitally convicted.

At Oakham assizes, a private man belonging to the Lincolnshire militia received sentence of death for horse-stealing, but was afterwards reprieved.

At Nottingham assizes, James Wardley was condemned for horse-stealing, but reprieved before the judge left the town.

At Thetford assizes, one was capitally convicted, but reprieved.

At Northampton assizes, William Craddock and Anthony Harwood received sentence of death, for cruelly wounding and robbing Mr. William Walker the younger, of Kingsthorne.

At the assizes at York, eleven were capitally convicted; of whom William Varley and James Oldfield, for diminishing the gold coin, were found guilty of high treason. John Shirtcliff, game-keeper to Saville Finch, of Thriberg, Esq. charged with shooting William Brown, after a trial of above seven hours, was acquitted.

At Lancaster assizes, three were capitally convicted. James Donovan, for wilfully setting fire to the gaol in Liverpool, is to receive his sentence next assizes.

A remarkable cause came on at this assize, wherein the corporation of Liverpool were plaintiffs, and the proprietors of the copperworks, contiguous to that town, were defendants; when, after examining 35 witnesses in behalf of the plaintiffs, who proved beyond a doubt that the noxious effluvia of the said works were pernicious to health, injurious to the herbage, and a nuisance to the neighbourhood, it was agreed, that the calcining part should be immediately discontinued, and the proprietors be allowed two years to remove the works to a more remote situation.

At Shrewsbury assizes, two were capitaly convicted. Sarah Evans, for attempting to murder her master, is to be imprisoned for three years, and find securities for her good behaviour for seven years.

At the assizes at Stafford, David Slack, for forging a draft of 20l. on Mess. Butler and Sons, of Birmingham, and procuring a forged indorsement on the same, was capitally convicted.

At Warwick assizes, four were capitally convicted.

At Hereford assizes, nine prisoners were tried for the murder of William Powell, Esq. six of whom received sentence of death, and were ordered for execution on Friday last, and their bodies to be dissected; but two were afterwards ordered to be hung in chains near the place were the murder was committed, and three were acquitted; the names of those left for execution were, William Spiggot, David Lewellin, Charles David Morgan, William Morris, William Walter Evan, and David Morgan. This trial lasted from seven in the morning till eight at night.

At the above assize, William Corbyn for sheep-stealing, John Webb for horse-stealing, and Charles Burgess for stealing 34l 17s. were also capitally convicted.

At Monmouth assizes, two men capitally convicted for sheep-stealing; but were reprieved for transportation.

At Worcester assizes, three men capitally convicted, one of whom was reprieved; and four were ordered to be transported for seven years.

At Gloucester assizes, eight men capitally convicted, among whom was Sarah Pulham, for setting fire to the barn and ricks of Richard Cook.

At Salisbury assizes, John Franklin, for robbing the mail on the road between Marlborough and Chippenham; and Joseph Lamb for stealing a mare at Sherborne were capitally convicted.

At Winchester assizes, four were capitally convicted.

That's a total of 66 executions.