by Sarah Wise
economic depressions of 1815 and 1825
Edward, Henry
Edwards, John
Egan, Pierce
Elephant and Castle
Eliot, George
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Ellenborough, Lord
Elliotson, Dr. John
Elliott, (owner of Charles Street lodging house) 94
Ellis, Robert
employment. See also apprenticeship
enclosure
England
calls for change in
census of 1801 vs. 1831
Etchings of Remarkable Beggars (Smith)
Evangelicals
Evans, Mr. (toy shop owner)
evidence. See also forensic medicine
found at Nova Scotia Gardens
not pursued by authorities
science of, at time of case
Examiner magazine
executions. See death sentences and executions
Exposure of the Various Impostures Daily Practised by Vagrants of Every Description (pamphlet)
Factory Act (1833)
family life, fragility of
famines of 1816 and 1817
fantoccini (puppets)
Feathers pub
Ferrari, Carlo (Carlo Feriere/Charles Ferrier). See also Italian Boy case
attitudes toward, vs. Pigburn
Bishop, Williams and May charged with murder of
Brun on
cap of, Paragalli on
Colla on
confessions and identity of
engravings of
eyewitnesses and possible killing of
identity seems established
Italian Boy body first identified as
Italian Boy body never positively identified as
Paragallis and
reported alive
Ferrari, Joseph
Fielding, Henry
Field Lane
Figaro in London (weekly)
figurinai (wax and plaster artists)
Fire of London (1666)
Fleet River
Flowerpot pub
Fontblanque, Albany
forensic medicine
Fortune of War (formerly Naked Boy) pub
Forty Thieves (children’s gang)
“Four Views of London” (essays)
France
Freemasons
free trade
French Revolution
Friends of the Bill for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Friends of the Oppressed
Gall, Dr. Joseph
Gardner, Mr. and Mrs.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Gavin, Dr. Hector
General Illumination of 1831
George IV, King of England
George pub
Gissing, George
glass manufacture trade
Globe and Traveller (newspaper)
Godwin, George
Gordon Riots of 1780
Grainger, Edward
Grainger, Richard Dugard
Grainger’s private anatomical school (Webb Street)
Anatomical Theatre of Medical Specimens
dissecting-room book of
Grampus (prison hospital ship)
Grant, James
Great Expectations (Dickens)
Great Marlborough Street magistrates office
Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy
Green, Joseph
Green Ground. See St. Clement Danes Church
Grey, Earl
Guildhall magistrates court
Guthrie, George
Guy’s Hospital. See also United Hospitals of St. Thomas’s and Guy’s
medical education and
Hackney Express and Shoreditch Observer
Haldane, Mary
Hall, Mary Ann
Halls, Thomas
Hare, William
Harmer, James
Hart, Mr.
Head, George (Williams’s father)
Head, John (brother of Thomas Head/Williams), birth and death of
Head, Mary (Williams’s mother)
Head, Rhoda. See Williams, Rhoda Bishop
Head, Thomas. See Williams, Thomas (originally Thomas Head)
Henoge, Charles
Henry VIII, King of England
Higgins, Constable Joseph
High Church Anglicans
Highgate
Hill, William
Hilton, John “Anatomical John”
History of the London Burkers, The
Hitchcock, Mrs.
Holborn
Hollis, (body snatcher)
Holloway churchyard
Holywell Mount (burial ground)
Hood, Thomas
horse market
Horse Patrol
Horsey, Samuel
hospital medical schools. See also anatomists; medical profession; surgeons; and specific hospitals
Houseless Poor Association
House of Commons. See also Parliament
House of Lords. See also Parliament
Hue and Cry (later Police Gazette)
humanitarianism
Hunt, Henry “Orator”
Hunter, John
Hunter, William
Hunterian Museum
Hyde, David
Image Boy, The (poem)
image boys, defined. See also Italian boys
informants
payments to
Isaacs, James
Islington workhouse
Italian artisans
Italian Boy, The (play)
Italian Boy case (Bishop and Williams case). See also drover’s boy from Lincolnshire; Ferrari, Carlo; Italian boys; Pigburn, Fanny; resurrectionists; and specific anatomy schools, hospitals; legal proceedings, lodgings, pubs, suspects, and victims
Anatomy Act passage speeded by
awl and
“blood money” to witnesses and
bodies of convicted murderers, after execution
Bow Street magistrates hearings on
burial and exhumation of body
cause of death
cause of death, Bishop’s confession on
clothing, as evidence
confessions and
confessions and, official
confessions and, unofficial additional, in newspapers
continuing mystery of extent of murders and identity of body
coroner’s inquest and early story on
corpse, delivered to King’s College
corpse, viewing and early identification of
crime scene analysis and detection and
decline of, into obscurity
destitute parents view body, in hopes of finding lost children
entertainment about, after execution
executions and
eyes of nation on
fiction inspired by
furry cap and
hamper and
heart empty of blood, significance of
identification of body, as “Italian boy”
identity, Bishop’s confession and
identity, continuing mystery of
illustrations of
indictments and
jackdaw story and
last seen alive
lessons drawn from, in England
likely solutions to puzzle of
metal implements and
mice and
Old Bailey trial and
Partridge stories on
Pigburn murder and
police searches of Nova Scotia Gardens and
prints, poems and broadsheets on
revelations about anatomy schools and
rumors of more murders and accomplices, after execution
teeth, displayed by dentist
teeth sold to dentist
temple wound
tortoise and
unpleasant aspects of life in London revealed by
well and
Italian boys
child-trafficking and
display of animals and figures by
seeks help from Dicity, in 1834
“Italian Savoyard Boy, The” (Bayly)
Jack Ketch’s Warren
Jerome, John
Johnson, Black Joe
Johnson, Dr. James
Johnson, William
Jones, William. See Williams, Thomas (originally Thomas Head)
Joseph (victim of Burke and Hare)
Justin, John
Justitia (ship)
Kahn, Dr.
Key, Charles Aston
Key, John
Keymer, Abraham
King, John
King, Margaret
King, Martha
King of Denmark pub
King’s College
Kirkman, John
Knight, Charles
Knox, Dr.
Laing, Allan
Lamb, George
Lancet
Laurie, Peter
Lewis, Jane
Life in London (Egan)
Lillie, Sir John Scott
Littledale, Sir Joseph (judge)
“Little Italy”
Little Windmill Street School of Anatomy. See also Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy
Lock, Henry
London. See also City
beggars and street life of
gaslights in
jails, registers of
lessons about, from Italian Boy case
loneliness in
Metropolitan Improvements, underground discoveries and
migration into
migration of Italians to
physical layout of
place and district names of
police reform in
prices of early 1830s
safety and violence in
settlement system and
sewage problem
street boys, attitudes toward
unrest in
London Apprentice pub
London Hospital
London Society for the Suppression of Mendicity (Dicity) (Red Lion Square)
Long, George
Loniski, Antonio
Low, Mrs.
lower classes. See also beggars; poor and destitute; working class
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
MacFarlane, Charles
Macher, (son of army surgeon)
Magendie, François
magistrates’ courts, records of. See also Bow Street magistrates
Malvarham, Barnard
Mann, Henry
Marine Society
Marquis of Anglesey pub
Marshalsea debtors’ prison
Martin, Col. Richard “Humanity Dick”
Martin’s Act
Mary Adelaide, Princess, duchess of Teck
Mary Tudor, Queen of England
Massa, Pietro
Maule, G.
May, James
additional confessions and
alibi of
appearance of
arrest of
background of
Bishop’s confession exonerates
Bishop vs.
Bow Street magistrates hearings and
confessions of, on resurrectionists
coroner’s inquest and
criminal career of
Culkin and
death of
list of potential killers and
lodgings of, searched
medical profession and
nickname of
Old Bailey trial of
pardoned from execution
physiognomy of
in prison after trial and
as resurrectionist
sale of body and
smock-frock and
teeth of boy and
verdict and
Mayhew, Henry
Mayne, Richard
Mayo, Herbert “The Owl”
M’Dougal, Ann
meat markets. See also Smithfield
medical profession. See also anatomists; surgeons; and specific doctors, hospitals, and private academies
attacks on
education and
memoirs of, on resurrectionists
Pilcher on resurrectionists and
reformers and
revelations about dissections and
secrecy of, about dissections
students and burking charges and
Melbourne, Lord
Mellon, Harriot. See St. Albans, duchess of
men
abandonment of families by
selling of wives by
Merritt, Charles
Methodists
Metropolitan New Police
resistance to
wages of
Metropolitan Police Act (1829)
middle classes
Middlemarch (Eliot)
Middlesex Hospital anatomy school
Millbank Penitentiary “Panopticon”
Mills, Thomas
Minshull, George Rowland
animal cruelty cases and
arrest of Sarah and Rhoda and
Bow Street magistrates hearings and
cause of death and
murder weapon and
Nova Scotia Gardens search and
Old Bailey trial and
parents of missing children and
Pigburn murder and
revelations about dissections and
Shields and
Thomas and
Minto, earl of
Montero, Giacomo, (possible identity of Italian boy)
Morgan, Henry
Morning Advertiser
Morning Post
Mortimer, Robert
Murder of the Italian Boy, The (Egan)
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The (Poe)
Murphy, (Holywell body snatcher)
Mysteries of London, The (Reynolds)
Mystères de Paris, Les (Sue)
Nag’s Head Court
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleonic Wars
National Guardian Society
National Union of the Working Classes
New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language (Vaux)
Newgate Prison
Debtors Door
press rooms
Press Yard
Newgate Shambles meat market
New Inn (inn of court)
New Monthly Magazine
New Poor Law (1834)
newspapers
additional confessions and
Newton, Sir Isaac
Newton, William
Nightly Shelter for the Houseless
Nottingham riots of 1831
Nova Scotia Gardens
condition of, after murders
description and history of
killing at, in Bishop’s confession
neighbors’ testimony and
obscurity of
topography of, described at trial
tours and crowds at, after executions
Nova Scotia Gardens, No. 2
Nova Scotia Gardens, No. 3 (Bishop’s House of Murder)
admission booths in
description of
men seen moving sack from
police searches of
survey of, for trial
washhouse
well
Observations on Injuries and Diseases of the Rectum (Mayo)
Observations on the Vagrant Act (Adolphus)
Observer
Old Bailey
as center of carting trade
executions at
resurrection culture and
Sessions House
Old Bailey Experience (penal-reform volume)
Old Bailey Sessions House trial
aftermath of
courtroom
date set
defense attorneys
difficulties of prosecution
judges
jury
model of Bishop house made for
summing up
verdict
witnesses for defense
witnesses for prosecution
Old Red Lion Tavern
Old Slaughter’s Coffee House
Old Street
Oliver Twist (Dickens)
On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions (Mayo)
Otter, Rev. William
“outdoor relief”
Oxford Street
Padmore, Robert
padroni
Palmer, William, the Poisoner
Paragalli, Joseph
Paragalli, Mary
Paris
abattoirs of
Revolution of 1789 and
parish constables
parish relief
Parliament. See also House of Commons; House of Lords
Parliamentary Select Committees
on Anatomy (1828)
on Destitute (1816, 1821, 1828)
on Fleet River (1837)
on Medical Education
on Policing (1828)
on the Police of the Metropolis (1828)
on the State of Smithfield Market (1828)
Partridge, Richard
background of
dissects Bishop’s body
grants to, for corpses
Italian Boy case and
life of, after trial
Paterson, Mary
peddlers
Peel, Robert
Pelham, Cresset
“penny gaffs” (performances)
Perceval, Alexander
Phillips, Charles
Phillips, S.M.
Philosophy of Living, The (Mayo)
phrenology
of Bishops and Williams
physiognomy
of Bishops and Williams
Piedmont
Pigburn, Fanny (Pighorn, Pickbourne)
cause of death
child of
confessions and
indictment and
lessons of murder of
Pilcher, George
Place, Francis
plague of 1664–65
Plough Inn, Smithfield
Poe, Edgar Allan
police. See also Metropolitan New Police
Police Gazette (formerly Hue and Cry)
police levy or rate payments
Police Select Committee Report (1828)
Pontifex, Henry
poor and destitute. See also beggars, children
Anatomy Bill and
areas inhabited by
causes of poverty of
charities attempting to deal with
history of
lack of social justice for
legal restrictions on
living conditions of
meat bought by
Metropolitan New Police drawn from
middle classes separate from
number of
ordinary working classes vs.
policing of, as game
poor laws increase
settlement and
Smithfield market and
as source of wonder and intrigue
Poor Law Amendment Act (1834). See also New Poor Law
poor laws. See also Vagrancy Act
poor-rate levy
poor relief. See also parish relief; settlement system
Prior, James