| THE REV. MR. WHITEFIELD PREACHING ON KENNINGTON COMMON | Frontispiece |
| From a print in the Crowle Pennant, Print Room, British Museum, Part VIII., No. 242. Probable date, 1748, or somewhat later. The triangular gallows is probably that erected for the execution in 1746 of the rebels of 1745. The bodies on the gibbet are those of highwaymen or murderers. | |
| FACING PAGE |
| THE FIRST KNOWN REPRESENTATION OF THE TRIPLE TREE | 62 |
| A portion of a map of Middlesex engraved by John Norden for William Camden’s “Britannia,” edition of 1607. | |
| THE TRIPLE TREE ABOUT 1614 | 64 |
| The illustration reproduces the frontispiece of a book. The gallows is shown in the uppermost lozenge on the left. | |
| THE RUINS OF FARLEIGH CASTLE | 66 |
| From Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s “Hungerfordiana; or, Memoirs of the Family of Hungerford,” 1823. | |
| THE TRIPLE TREE IN 1712 | 66 |
| From a broadsheet published by the Rev. Paul Lorrain, the Ordinary of Newgate, containing an account of an execution at Tyburn, on September 19, 1712. | |
| THE TRIPLE TREE IN 1746 | 68 |
| Reduced from Rocque’s 24-sheet Map of London, etc., begun in March, 1737, and published in October, 1746. | |
| THE SITE OF TYBURN TREE | 70 |
| Showing the locality before the alterations of 1908. Reduced from the Ordnance large-scale map of 1895. | |
| SIR WILLIAM DE MARISCO (OR WILLIAM MARSH) DRAWN TO TYBURN IN 1242 | 90 |
| From a contemporary drawing by Matthew Paris in the MS. “Chronica Majora,” in the possession of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Reproduced here by permission of the Librarian and authorities of the College. | |
| DRAWING TO TYBURN ON HURDLES, temp. ELIZABETH | 166 |
| From “The Life and Death of Mr. Genings.” (See illustration facing p. 64.) | |
| EXECUTIONS AT TYBURN, temp. ELIZABETH | 168 |
| From “The Life and Death of Mr. Genings.” (See illustration facing p. 64.) | |
| THE TRIPLE TREE ABOUT 1680 | 198 |
| From a print in the Gardner Collection. Reproduced, with Mr. Gardner’s permission, by Mr. Herbert Sieveking, who allows this reproduction from a photograph taken for him. | |
| THE PEINE FORTE ET DURE | 230 |
| William Spiggott under the press in Newgate, in 1721. From the (anonymous) “Newgate Calendar,” 5 vols., 1773. | |
| THE TRIPLE TREE IN 1747 | 240 |
| Reduced from the last plate of Hogarth’s series of “Industry and Idleness,” showing the execution at Tyburn of Thomas Idle. | |
| THE INTERIOR OF SURGEONS’ HALL | 246 |
| Showing the body of a murderer after dissection, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 1752. From “The New and Complete Newgate Calendar,” by William Jackson, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, 6 vols., 1795. | |
| DRAWING TO TYBURN ON A SLEDGE | 248 |
| Showing Dr. Cameron being drawn to Tyburn in 1753. From “The Old Bailey Chronicle,” by James Montague, of the Temple, 4 vols., 1783. | |
| THE EXECUTION AT TYBURN OF EARL FERRERS IN 1760 | 252 |
| From a print in the Crace Collection, Print Room, British Museum, Views, Portfolio XXX., No. 3. This was one of the earliest executions on the new movable gallows. | |
| THE NEW GALLOWS AT NEWGATE, 1783 | 266 |
| From “The Old Bailey Chronicle,” as above. | |
