The Old Bailey Online Records

ejmaztec

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I found my surname listed 6 times as a defendant and 75 in total!!

Ah man!!

This is a quote from the "Cool Vids & Pics" forum and relates to the searchable online records for the Old Bailey for 1674-1913.

Here's Oscar Wilde, for example.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/search.jsp?form=searchHomePage&_divs_fulltext=&_persNames_surname=wilde&_persNames_given=oscar&_persNames_alias=&_offences_offenceCategory_offenceSubcategory=&_verdicts_verdictCategory_verdictSubcategory=&_punishments_punishmentCategory_punishmentSubcategory=&_divs_div0Type_div1Type=&fromMonth=&fromYear=&toMonth=&toYear=&ref=&submit.x=34&submit.y=8


..and a burglar of Lord Listowel's London residence, who got transported for ten years.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/search.jsp?form=searchHomePage&_divs_fulltext=listowel&_persNames_surname=&_persNames_given=&_persNames_alias=&_offences_offenceCategory_offenceSubcategory=&_verdicts_verdictCategory_verdictSubcategory=&_punishments_punishmentCategory_punishmentSubcategory=&_divs_div0Type_div1Type=&fromMonth=&fromYear=&toMonth=&toYear=&ref=&submit.x=56&submit.y=17

ejmaztec

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t16800117-1-off1&div=t16800117-1#highlight

It wasn't advisable to be a Catholic priest in the 1680s.:eek:

This is only the first bit:

THE Trial and Condemnation Of the six-notorious Traitors.

THe Kings Witnesses attending on the Court there were eight Romish Priests and Jesuites brought to the Barr, to receive their, Trials upon the account of High-Treason, viz. Joseph Kemish , William Russel , alias, Napper, Henry Starkie , William Marshal , James Corker , Lionel Anderson , alias, Munson, Charles Parry , and Alexander Lunsden ; but the evidence not being prepared for the Trial of the former, viz. Kemish, he was reserved till another time; but against the other seven they proceeded as followeth, according to their Indictments, that they being Priests and English-born, after having received orders from the See of Rome, came over and remained in England, the which by a Statute of the 27th of Queen Elizabeth is made high Treason , Mr. Attorny-General and the Kings Council laid open the Cause to the Jury and Evidence, and the Jury being charg'd with them, according to Law, Lionel Anderson was first brought to the Barr, where Dr. Oats, Mr. Bedlo, Mr. Dangerfield, Mr. Prance, and Mr. Dugdale were sworn for the King, Mr. Dangerfield first standing up, did give a fair and large account, that the Prisoner was a Priest in orders.

Manach

"Punishment Section : Drawn and quartered." Those were brave men to risk that.

CDfm

If you like that you might like this -the Newgate Calender

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/newgatei/genind.htm

An example

The Complete Newgate Calendar
Volume III

WILLIAM YORK

"The Boy Murderer," convicted of the Murder of another Child
in the Poorhouse of Eyke, in Suffolk, May, 1748

THIS sinner was but just turned ten years of age when
he committed the dreadful crime. He was a pauper
in the poorhouse belonging to the parish of Eyke, in
Suffolk, and was committed, on the coroner's inquest, to
Ipswich Jail for the murder of Susan Mahew, another child,
of five years of age, who had been his bedfellow. The
following is his confession, taken and attested by a Justice
of the Peace, and which was, in part, proved on his trial,
with many corroborating circumstances of his guilt.
He said that a trifling quarrel happening between them,
on the 13th of May, 1748, about ten in the morning, he
struck her with his open hand, and made her cry. That
she going out of the house to the dunghill, opposite to the
door, he followed her with a hook in his hand, with an in-
tent to kill her; but before he came up to her he set down
the hook, and went into the house for a knife; he then
came out again, took hold of the girl's left hand, and cut
her wrist all round and to the bone, with his knife, and
then threw her down, and cut her to the bone just above the
elbow of the same arm. That after this he set his foot upon
her stomach, and cut her right arm round about, and to the
bone, both on the wrist and above the elbow. That he then
thought she would not die, and therefore took the hook
and cut her left thigh to the bone; and, observing she was
not dead yet, his next care was to conceal the murder. For
this purpose he filled a pail with water at a ditch, and washed
the blood off the child's body, buried it in the dunghill,
together with the blood that was spilt upon the ground,
and made the dunghill as smooth as he could; afterwards
he washed the knife and hook, and carried them into the
house, washed the blood off his own clothes, hid the child's
clothes in an old chamber, and then came down and got
his breakfast.

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This " boy murder " was found guilty, and sentence
of death pronounced against him; but he was respited from
time to time, and on account of his tender years, was at
length pardoned.