List of Illustrations

Arthur Thistlewood, ‘on the day sentence of death was passed’

James Ings, the Portsmouth butcher

Richard Tidd, radical and conman

William Davidson, the ‘man of colour’

John Thomas Brunt, conspirator

Robert Adams, who turned king’s evidence

Thomas Hyden, the cow-keeper

John Monument

Lord Harrowby’s house

Robert Stewart, Lord Castlereagh, hated Cabinet minister

Henry Addington, Lord Sidmouth, Home Secretary

John Scott, Lord Eldon, Chancellor of England

The Cato St stable as it looked in May 1820

The stable today

Plan of the hay-loft, marking the spot where Smithers died

Newgate Gaol

The Central Criminal Court on the site of the Session House and Newgate

Excavations outside the Central Criminal Court

Execution day, 1 May 1820