Wednesday 10th of December 1541 (x) — Thomas Culpeper is beheaded and Francis Dereham is hung, cut down while still alive, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered for having sexual relations with Fifth wife of Henry VIII Catherine Howard
According to custom, Culpeper and Dereham's heads were placed on top of London Bridge.
Saturday 11th of November 1724 (-) — Highwayman Joseph Blake is executed by hanging
Thursday 16th of November 1724 (-) — Thief and gaol-breaker Jack Sheppard is executed by hanging
Sheppard's slight build had aided his previous prison escapes but it condemned him to a slow death by strangulation from the hangman's noose.
Monday 27th of April 1733 (-) — Highwayman William Gordon is executed by hanging
Surgeon Dr. Chovot discovered that opening the windpipe would prevent the fatal consequences of being hanged by the neck. The surgeon secretly made an incision in Gordon's windpipe. When Gordon was hanged he was observed to retain life after three thieves executed with him were dead. His body was cut down after hanging three quarters of an hour and carried to a house in Edgware road where Chovot was in attendance, he immediately opened a vein, which bled freely and soon after Gordon opened his mouth and groaned. However, he died.
Monday 22nd of December 1738 (-) — Prostitute Constantia Jones is executed by hanging
Jones had stolen 36 shillings and a half-guinea from a client.
Tuesday 26th of August 1738 (-) — Forger William Newington is executed by hanging
Thursday 24th of November 1740 (x) — Rapist and murderer William Duell is executed by hanging
Duell's body hung for about 20 minutes before being cut down. It was then brought to the Surgeon's Hall to be anatomized for a medical training college, a common practice at the time. Duell was stripped and laid on the board about to be dissected when one of the servants noticed that he had begun breathing slowly. Duell's breath got quicker and quicker; he was then bled, and in two hours, he was able to sit upright. That night, he was taken back to Newgate Prison. Duell, suffering from a fever and delirium during his trial and execution, had no recollection of the hanging. Along Duell four other criminals were hanged: Thomas Clock, William Meers, Margery Stanton and Eleanor Munoman who all had been convicted of several burglaries and felonies.
Saturday 17th of June 1747 (-) — Highwayman Henry Simms is executed by hanging
Friday 27th of November 1750 (-) — Traitor Thomas Reynolds is executed by hanging
Monday 6th of July 1750 (x) — Catherine Conway, Elizabeth Banks and Margaret Harvey are executed by hanging
Banks was charged with stripping another woman and Harvey was charged with robbery.
Wednesday 30th of November 1774 (-) — Highwayman John Rann is executed by hanging
Shortly before Rann was to be hanged, appearing in a specially made pea-green suit adorned by a large nosegay, he enjoyed cheerful banter with both the hangman and the crowd, then danced a jig, before being publicly executed.
Friday 7th of November 1783 (-) — Highwayman John Austin is executed by hanging
The gallows were dismantled after Austin's execution. Future public hangings were now conducted on a scaffold named the 'new drop' outside Newgate Prison.
