| Description | 'Tyburn Ticket', awarded at the Gaol Delivery of Newgate, 26 May 1814, to Ann Hodgkins of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, for her part in apprehending and prosecuting William Huggins for burglariously breaking and entering her dwelling-house on the night of 20 March 1814. Certificate signed by William Domville and John Silvester, Mayor and Recorder (of London), and enrolled. Endorsed with assgnmnet, for £20, to John Kench, of St Martin-in-the-Fields, tallow-chandler, 3 (?) 1814. |
| AdminHistory | By the Act of 10 William III, c 12 (1698) any person who apprehended and prosecuted a felon to conviction on a capital charge was entitled to a certificate (commonly called a 'Tyburn Ticket') exempting him for life from serving any parish office (e.g. constable or overseer of the poor) in the parish where the offence was committed. This gruesome trophy could be assigned to another person, and thus acquired a market value. It must have been uncommon for a woman to be awarded a Tyburn Ticket. Neither Ann Hodgkins nor john Kench has been traced in the Hospital records, and the provenance of this document is unexplained. |