The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl

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At the Tower Church. He lived at St. Margaret’s Green.

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Public Men of Ipswich and East Suffolk, by Richard Gowing. Ipswich: W. J. Scopes, 1875.

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The following books by Richard Cobbold are in the British Museum Library: —

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The Secretary of the Borough of Ipswich Museum and Free Library.

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The punishment of death for horse-stealing was abolished in 1832, but in 1833 a little boy of nine who pushed a stick through a cracked window and pulled out some painters’ colours worth twopence was sentenced to death. Since 1838 no person has been hanged in England for any offence other than murder. See Spencer Walpole’s History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815.