Gangs, Gentlemen and Gypsies
Narratives of Transportation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23737922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gwenda Morgan, Peter Rushton (0000-0002-7296-3557) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 62-97 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230000872_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2489433154 |
| ISBN | 9780230000872 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
In August 1752 the Maryland Gazette carried a report from Bristol concerning the movement of convicts to Bideford for shipment: Last Monday morning a great number of People resorted before Newgate, to see the 11 transports carried away for Bideford. Ten of the Prisoners were mounted two upon a Horse chain’d. People were chiefly concerned to see [Daniel] Bishop who had murdered his sweetheart. They rode them through the crowd who yelled at him and he back etc. They threw dirt and stones at him. This was part of a much larger story of Daniel Bishop which had run through the west-country papers for more than a year. He had been arrested in March 1751 on suspicion of murdering his fiancée Winifred Jones, who had disappeared. She had last been seen quarrelling with him and pleading with him not to hit her, when, observers reported, he had said ‘You B—h of Destruction, I’ll use you worse, and kill you this Night’. When her body was later found in a ditch near the river, she had clearly been physically attacked before her death, and Bishop was charged, tried and convicted of murder. However, the newspapers were not entirely unsympathetic, and there was a plea for further information, particularly from Winifred’s letters-writer, apparently to provide evidence for appeal. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Ancient history · Appeal · Art · Cartography · Dirt · Geography · Literature · Mutiny · Narrative · Newspaper · Plea · Pleading · Political science · American Sports and Literature · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |