... death , the law would have found him within his prerogatives . Another similar case the following year ( 1719 ) had a bizarre ending . Edward Bird stabbed to death a waiter called Loxton in an inn , because Loxton did not draw his bath ...
David Lemmings. by the Orphan, Bird admitted that he had killed Loxton, but claimed it was self-defence, and that at ... 1719. The Ordinary of Newgate his account of the Behaviour and last dying Words of Edward Bird, Gent. Who was ...
... EDWARD BIRD , who was convicted of Murder . A T the feffions held at the Old Bailey on the 10th of January 1719 , Edward Bird , of St. James's , Gentleman , was indicted for the murder of Samuel Loxton , by giving him one mortal wound ...
Depicting with shocking openness the sexual and political violence of its central characters’ fates, Edward the Second broke new dramatic ground in English theatre.
... BIRD John , s . John B .; bap . 12 Aug. 1717 at Sonning , Berks ; K.S. 1721 ... Edward Bird , of a respectable family at Windsor , who was hanged for murder at Tyburn 23 Feb. 1719 ... BIRD v . BYRD 1725-28 ma . BIRD 1725 mi . BIRD v ...
... EDWARD BIRD , who was executed for Murder . MR . BIRD was born at Windfor , in Berkshire , and defcended of ... 1719 , he was indict- ed at the Old Bailey for the murder of Samuel Loxton . It appeared on his trial , that he had ...
... EDWARD BIRD , who was executed for Murder . R. BIRD was born MR at Windfor in Berkshire , and defcended of ... 1719 , he was indict- ed at the Old Bailey for the murder of Samuel " Loxton . It appeared on his trial , that he had ...
... 1719. Feburary 23rd . Lieut EDWARD BIRD , for murder , he was executed at Tyburn . May 17th . JOHN PRICE , for murder , executed at Bunhill Fields . This culprit had been many years the Tyburn Executioner . He murdered Elizabeth Price ...
Andrew Knapp. LIEUTENANT EDWARD BIRD , MURDERER , EXECUTED AT TYBURN ON THE 23d OF FEBRUARY , 1719 . WHEN young men mount the cockade , suspend the epaulet to the shoulder , and gird themselves with a sword , they too often neglect the ...
... Edward Bird , Esq . died 23rd Feby 1719 , in age 26. ' This man was executed at Ty- burn , for the murder of Samuel Luxton , a waiter at an inn in London . The provocation was trivial -having ordered him to get a bath ready in the ...