The Damnation of John Donellan (40 page)

Charles, Joseph
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Charles I, King
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8

Charles II, King
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Chartres, Mr
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–1

Chesterfield, Lord
113

Letters to his Son: On the Fine Art of becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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59
–60

Christ's Hospital boarding school
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Clandestine Marriage Act (1753)
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Clapton, Northamptonshire
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Clare, Thomas
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Clayton, Thomas
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Cleland, John
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Clive, Lord
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Clunes, Mary, of Coventry
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Colburn, Henry
113

Coleraine, Lord
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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Combe, William
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‘coming out' into society
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Conflans, Comte de
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Coningsby, Thomas
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Cook, Captain James
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Cornelys, Teresa
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Cornish, William
104

Cornwall
, HMS
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Cornwall Record Office
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coroner's jury
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–4

Covent Garden Journal
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Covent Garden Theatre and Royal Opera House, London
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Coventry
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Coventry Mercury
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Cradock, Joseph
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Memoirs
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,
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Crofts, William
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Cruwys, Mrs
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Cumberland, Duke of
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D

Dagge, Henry
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Dallington, near Northampton
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Dand, Mr
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Davis, Salome (‘sally')
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de Burgo, Sir Joseph
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death sentences
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Defoe, Daniel
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Denbigh, Basil Feilding, Earl of
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Denbigh, Countess of
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Denbigh family
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Derbyshire, John
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–9,
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Derrick, samuel:
Harris's List
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Devonshire, Duchess of
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Devonshire Place, London
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Dickens, Charles
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Digby, Mr (counsel for the Crown)
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Donellan, Captain John birth (1737)
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illegitimacy
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family background
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reputation for bravery and fortune-hunting
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former Indian Army officer
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meets Theodosia
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court-martialed
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invents and re-invents himself
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appearance
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–8,
251

‘Diamond Donellan' nickname
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and the Pantheon
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his lover ‘Mrs H'
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marriage to Theodosia Boughton
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personality
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will
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eventually welcomed into the family fold
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lives at Lawford Hall with his wife and children
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tries to look after TB
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rescues TB from harm
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complains of TB's difficult character
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escapade on Newbold church
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Newnham Wells
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and TB's poor health
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10
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orders pigeons as old wives' remedy
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emptying of the medicine bottles
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removal of medicine bottles
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tells Powell of TB's death
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present at Powell's examination of TB's body
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and Rattray's and Wilmer's examination of the body
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rejects Bucknill's services
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uneasy position since TB's death
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still for distilling rose and lavender water
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favours an autopsy
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and TB's funeral
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at the inquest
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on TB's use of arsenic
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arrested, charged with TB's murder and gaoled
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Roe intercepts his letters from Warwick Gaol
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apparent fears for his wife's safety
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possible double bluff by
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trial date set
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poison issue
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judge questions his conduct in his summing up
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found guilty
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fortitude during the trial
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sentenced to death by hanging
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letter to his wife
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confesses to distilling laurel water
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executed
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motive issue
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means of committing murder
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Defence
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Donellan, Colonel Nehemiah
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Donellan, theodocia king (daughter of Theodosia)
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Donellan, James
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Dorset, Duke of
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Douglas, Mary
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Downes House, Crediton, Devon
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Drew, Tomkyns
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Dublin University Magazine
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Dunchurch parish, Warwickshire
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Dunning, Mr (attorney)
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Durham, Bishop of (Rt Rev John Egerton)
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East India Company
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Eden, William:
Principles of Penal Punishment
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Edgehill, battle of (1642)
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Edgeworth, Richard Lovell
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Edinburgh University
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Egremont, Earl
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E.H. Cornelius Library, Royal College of Surgeons
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Elizabeth I, Queen
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Ellice, Margaretta Maria
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elopement
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English Civil War
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epilepsy
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Eton College
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TB contracts venereal disease
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‘Pop'
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the Donellans' visit
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Falmouth, Lord
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Family Physician, The
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Fielding, Henry:
Joseph Andrews
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Fleet Prison
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Fonnereau, Anne
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Fonnereau, Charles William
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Fonnereau, Claude William (a friend of TB's)
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Fonnereau, Harriet
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Fonnereau, Mary-Anne
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Fonnereau, William
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Fontenoy, battle of (1745)
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Forde, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis
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Foss, Edward:
Biographica Juridica
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Fox, Robert
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Franks, William
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Frost, Samuel
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fetches medicine for TB
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fishes with TB the night before his death
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declares that TB was well before taking the medicine
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testimony at trial
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Frost, William
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the family coachman
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stable work
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sent to fetch the apothecary
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and Newnham Wells
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testifies at inquest
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testifies at trial
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Garrick, David
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General Infirmary, Northampton
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Gentleman's Magazine
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George III, King
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George IV, King (as Prince of Wales)
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Gibbet Hill, near Rugby
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Gibbon, Edward
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Gillray, Thomas
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Gloucester, Duke of
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Golconda
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Goodwin, Timothy
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Gordon, Lord William
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Grafton, Duke of
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Grand Tour
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Great Harborough, Warwickshire
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Great Hurricane (1780)
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Greathead, Bertie
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Green, Mr (lawyer)
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Greenaway, Edward
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Gretna Green, Scotland
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Greville, Charles
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Grieve, John
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Griffiths, Arthur and Howard, John:
Mysteries of Police and Crime
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Grosvenor, Earl
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Grosvenor, Lady Henrietta
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Gulard wash
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Halifax, John
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Hall, Reverend
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Hamilton, Catherine (née Barlow)
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Hamilton, Emma (née Lyon, then Hart)
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