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Exeter's Executed
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This is the best compiled list I can make of those executed at Exeter although there will be many who have gone unrecorded over the ages. After 1537 when Exeter became the County and City of the City of Exeter until 1818 with the execution of Samuel Holmyard for forgery, Exeter carried out its own executions at Livery Dole. The County of Devon used the gallows at Heavitree, which is close to Ringswell Avenue - remains of the executed have been exhumed in the garden of the cottages between the two roads, and at the old site of Gallows Cross Garage (situated at the apex of the junction) suggesting the gallows was close by. The first execution at the New Drop Devon County Prison was in 1795, and they continued as public executions until Mary Anne Ashford in 1866. Execution days would see tens of thousands of people travel to the city to witness the demise of the condemned, attracted by the cheap broadsheets which did little more than advertise the coming event. The last execution at Exeter Prison was in 1943, after which the gallows were taken down and shipped to Jersey where they performed their grisly task one more time in the 1950's.
Main Sources - The Penalty was Death by Grant John Harrison, Gates of the Close by Michael Fodor, Trewman's Exeter Flying Post, the Times, John Waite and the websites Capital Punishment UK Mrs Joan Turnbull Ian Maxted
| Surname | Forename | Year | Date | Crime | Where executed and notes |
| de Porta | Alured | 1285 | 29th December | Consenting, planning and harbouring offenders | Convicted for his part in the murder of Walter Lechlade and hung. Only Mayor of Exeter to be executed. There is some confusion over his date of execution as one document states he was executed on the 26th, St Stephens Day, the day before the sentence was announced - the trial was presided over by Edward I. |
| Poyfed | Elias | 1285 | 29th December | Guilty of murder | Convicted for murdering Walter Lechlade and hung. |
| Stonyng | Richard | 1285 | 29th December | Guilty of murder | Convicted for murdering Walter Lechlade and hung. |
| Amener | Thomas | 1285 | 29th December | Planning the murder | Convicted of planning the murder of Walter Lechlade and hung. |
| Twate | Roger | 1285 | 29th December | Aiding the felons with the planning. | Guilty of allowing the murder of Walter Lechlade 'as much as he could' and hung. |
| Steyner | Drew | 1431 | 7th August | Unknown | Burnt at the stake at Livery Dole. |
| St Leger | Sir Thomas | 1483 | November | Rebelled against Richard III, his brother in law. | Hooker wrote that he was beheaded at the Carfoix (the junction of South Street, North Street, High Street and Fore Street). However, the Receivers Account of 1483 shows a sum for constructing a scaffold at the front of the Guildhall (aula in Latin), and that St Leger and Rame were held in the Guildhall overnight before their execution - (thanks to John Waite of the forum for that research) |
| Rame | Sir John | 1483 | November | Rebelled against Richard III. | Hooker wrote that he was beheaded at Carfoix (the junction of South Street, North Street, High Street and Fore Street). See St Leger above. |
| Benet | Thomas | 1531 | 19th January | Denying the supremacy of the Pope by nailing a paper to the door of the Cathedral in protest. | Benet was to have been executed at Southernhay, but the Chamber objected as it was within the limits of the city and the prosecution was a Devon affair. Sir Thomas Dennis, the Sheriff of Devon ordered the place of execution to be moved to Livery Dole, where Benet was burnt at the stake. See Livery Dole memorial. |
| Waltheman | John | 1532 | - | Treason | Heavitree - Oliver wrote "John
Waltheman was executed as a traitor at Ringswell, who being given to
blind prophesying did interpret and apply them to the King." He
was hung, drawn and quartered at 'Ryngeswell'. |
| Welshe | Rev. Robert | 1549 | 5th August | Implicated in the murder of Kingwell, a protestant on Exe Island during the siege of the city. | Welshe was hung, with a rosary 'and other Popish trash' on a gibbet erected on his own church tower of St Thomas. His tarred body remained hanging until Mary came to the throne in 1553. |
| Prest | Agnes | 1557 | 15th August | Committing "Heresy chiefly against the Sacrament of the Altar and for speaking against Idols". | A Cornish woman, Prest's husband and children testified against her. She was burned at the stake at Southernhay. See Livery Dole memorial |
| Yarde | Alexander | 1577 | 16th September | - | From St Sidwells Parish - details not known |
| Paddon | John | 1577 | 16th September | - | From St Sidwells Parish - details not known |
| Rogers | John | 1578 | 3rd October | - | From St Sidwells Parish - details not known |
| Archerde | William | 1579 | 29th March | - | From St Sidwells Parish - details not known |
| Kegill | William | 1579 | 29th March | - | From St Sidwells Parish - details not known |
| unknown | - | 1582 | 1st September | Cutting of a purse | From St Sidwells Parish - details not known |
| Hill | William | 1587 | 10th April | - | Executed and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Bowden | Clement | 1587 | 29th July | - | Executed and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Aste | Peter | 1591 | 15th January | - | Executed and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Burridge | Nicholas | 1591 | 15th January | - | Executed and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Foster | William | 1594 | 16th March | - | Executed and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Quantour | Nicholas | 1595 | 14th March | - | Executed and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Savidge | Richarde | 1598 | 29th July | - | Executed at the gallows - Buried St Sidwell parish |
| Dowdall | James | 1599 | 13th August | Refused to take the oath of supremacy | Hung, drawn and quartered at Rougemont Castle. |
| Barne | George | 1604 | 30th July | - | Pressed to death and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish - normally, if the accused refused to plead he was "... remanded to the prison from whence he came and put into a low dark chamber, and there be laid on his back on the bare floor, naked, unless when decency forbids; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight as he could bear, and more, that he hath no sustenance, save only on the first day, three morsels of the worst bread, and the second day three droughts of standing water, that should be alternately his daily diet till he died, or, till he answered." |
| Foster | Christopher | 1604 | 30th July | - | Executed at Heavitree and buried St Sidwell parish |
| Thomas | John | 1604 | 31st July | - | Executed at Heavitree and buried St Sidwell parish |
| Caden | Edmund | 1606 | 27th March | Murder | Executed at Heavitree and buried St Sidwell parish |
| Wilkins | John | 1608 | 8th July | - | Born on the city, executed at Heavitree and buried St Sidwell parish |
| Hale | William | 1608 | 25th July | - | Executed at Heavitree and buried St Sidwell parish |
| Robins | Symon | 1608 | 25th July | - | Executed at Heavitree and buried St Sidwell parish |
| Wilkins | Richard | 1610 | 12th July | Witchcraft | Executed at Heavitree and buried St Sidwell parish |
| Andrew | William | 1611 | 29th July | - | Executed at Heavitree and buried St Sidwell parish |
| Canliffe | Walter | 1612 | 9th August | Murdered his son | A miller, executed at Heavitree and buried St Sidwell parish |
| Adames | Robert | 1612 | 13th October | Piracy | Executed at Heavitree and buried St Sidwell parish |
| Tooker | Thomas | 1612 | 23rd March | Poisoned his wife. | He 'was condemned at the Assize, held at the castle, and executed at Heavitree gallows' Tooker had recently been appointed the sword bearer of Exeter – he was buried in St Sidwell parish |
| Gater | Henrie | 1613 | 27th July | Murder | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Swanson | Thomasine | 1614 | 29th August | Murder | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Kendall | Robert | 1616 | 13th January | - | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Smyth | Philip | 1627 | 7th April | Murder | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Moore | Peter | 1641 | - | Poisoned master, Mr Bidgood - put
powdered white mercury into his Master's "messe of pottage" |
Heavitree - Moore was taken, "upon a sledge,.....the common place of execution, bowing his body to the people round about him so well as he could, he spake after this manner." Buried St Sidwell parish. |
| Robins | Walter | 1642 | 23rd April | - | Executed and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish. |
| Sadler | Major | 1645 | October | Traitor | Shot at Southernhay. Sadler had been an officer in the Parliamentary army before defecting to the King. He was captured when Tiverton was taken in October 1645, court martialed and executed for treason. |
| Herring | William | 1652 | 17th August | - | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Attwill | William | 1653 | 20th March | - | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Pittford | William | 1653 | 20th March | - | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Hossington | Richard | 1655 | 7th May | - | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Reeves | Richard | 1655 | 8th May | - | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Hillyeard | Thomas | 1655 | 8th May | - | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Poulton | Thomas | 1655 | 8th May | - | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Davies | Edward | 1655 | 8th May | - | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Willeies | Edward | 1655 | 8th May | - | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Giles alias Hobbs | John | 1655 | 8th May | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish | |
| Penruddock | Col. John | 1655 | 16th May | Taking up arms against the Commonwealth | Beheaded at Rougemont Castle |
| Jones | Francis | 1655 | 16th May | Taking up arms against the Commonwealth | Beheaded at Rougemont Castle |
| Jordaine | Jone | 1664 | 23rd August | Murder | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Branck | Marke | 1666 | 28th March | - | Executed at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Cox | Jane | 1666 | 28th March | - | Heavitree - Buried St Sidwell parish |
| Branke | Mark | 1666 | 28th March | - | Heavitree - Buried St Sidwell parish |
| Turner | Thomasin | 1671 | 7th August | - | Hung, probably at Heavitree |
| Trembles | Mary | 1682 | 25th August | Witchcraft | Heavitree – from Bideford |
| Lloyd | Temperance | 1682 | 25th August | Witchcraft | Heavitree – from Bideford |
| Edwards | Susannah | 1682 | 25th August | Witchcraft | Heavitree – from Bideford |
| Molland | Alice | 1685 | - | Witchcraft | Hung – last to be executed as a witch |
| Foweracres | J | 1685 | - | Involved in the Monmouth Rebellion | One of 27 condemned to death around Devon. In the event, only 2 to 3 were executed; it is not known if Foweracres was one. The sentence included "The heads and quarters of these persons to be fixed where the King shall appoint." |
| Bird | - | 1698 | 1st October | Coining | Reported in Dawks's News Letter. |
| Salsbery | John | 1721 | 21st April | - | Executed at
Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Wall | William | 1727 | 18th September | Murder of a young girl at the hospital | Executed
at Heavitree and recorded in St Sidwell's Parish |
| Cruse | Benjamin | 1732 | 27th April | Murder of Mr Pyke, a Custom-house Officer | Heavitree gallows – the crush to see was so great, the condemned prisoners were taken away to restore order, and returned before 6pm to a newly erected gallows. |
| Woon | Stephen | 1732 | 27th April | Murder of Mr Pyke, a Custom-house Officer | Heavitree |
| Warren | Mary | 1735 | 8th May | Murder of her male bastard child | Heavitree |
| Dulen | Mary | 1735 | 29th August | Murder of her male bastard child | Heavitree |
| Woolrot | Nathniel | 1736 | March | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Bird | John | 1736 | August | Horse theft | Heavitree |
| Collins | John | 1737 | 26th August | Murder of Jane Uprot | Heavitree |
| Prince | Thomas | 1737 | 26th August | Murder of wife, Ann Prince | Heavitree |
| Baker | Benjamin | 1737 | 26th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Ireland | John | 1738 | March | Horse theft | Heavitree |
| Taylor | John | 1738 | July | Horse theft | Heavitree |
| Tickner | James | 1739 | 31st August | Desertion | Shot |
| Davey | Phillip | 1739 | March | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Denton | William | 1739 | 31st August | Housebreaking | Heavitree – alias Penton or Vento |
| Meeds | Simon | 1739 | 31st August | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Tickner | James | 1739 | 31st August | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Woodford | Henry | 1740 | 11th April | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Bale | John | 1740 | 11th April | Horsetheft | Heavitree |
| Bryant | Johanna | 1740 | 11th April | Murder of her bastard child | Heavitree |
| Turner | Dinah | 1740 | 11th April | Murder of her male bastard child | Heavitree |
| Dugger | William | 1740 | 11th April | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Cummins | Ann | 1740 | 11th April | Murder of her male bastard child | Heavitree |
| Diggott | Thomas | 1740 | 11th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Jessing | israel | 1740 | 11th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Phillips | Simon | 1740 | 11th April | Murder of Richard Philips | Heavitree |
| Every | John | 1740 | 29th August | Murder of his male bastard child | Heavitree |
| Allen | Martha | 1740 | 29th August | Stealing a horse | Heavitree |
| Mounson | John | 1740 | 29th August | Arson | Heavitree |
| Sheppard | Matthew | 1740 | 30th April | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Kennard | Daniel | 1742 | 30th April | Arson | Heavitree |
| Wroe | Peter | 1742 | 30th April | - | Heavitree |
| Gibbons | David | 1743 | 15th April | Murder of his wife, Elizabeth Gibbons. | Heavitree |
| Stribling | Alice | 1743 | 15th April | Murder of her apprentice, Elizabeth Tossle | Heavitree |
| Lawford | John | 1743 | 15th April | Forgery | Heavitree |
| Teague | George | 1743 | 29th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Vine | Rev. Peter | 1743 | 5th October | Rape of Elizabeth Dark | Heavitree |
| Farey | William | 1744 | not known | Uttering? | Heavitree - convicted 13th March, sentenced but execution not confirmed. |
| Grote | Mary | 1744 | not known | Arson | Heavitree - convicted 13th March, sentenced but execution not confirmed. |
| Saunders | Christopher | 1744 | not known | Sheep theft | Heavitree - convicted 13th March, sentenced but execution not confirmed. |
| Sowden | John | 1744 | not known | Sheep theft | Heavitree - convicted 13th March, sentenced but execution not confirmed. |
| Harding | Philip | 1745 | not known | Sheep theft | Heavitree - convicted 18th March, sentenced but execution not confirmed. |
| Fosbery | William | 1745 | not known | Highway robbery | Heavitree - convicted 18th March, sentenced but execution not confirmed. |
| Dyer | Thomas | 1746 | 11th April | Murdered his wife, Ann Dyer. | Heavitree |
| Sanderson | Robert | 1746 | 17th September | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Momford | James | 1746 | 17th September | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Davis | Humphrey | 1746 | 17th September | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Tuckerman | John | 1747 | April | Murdered his mother, Agnes Tuckerman. | Heavitree |
| Wadland | Mary | 1747 | 18th September | Murder of her male bastard son. | Heavitree |
| Whitehouse | James | 1748 | March | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Wilson | Thomas | 1749 | 7th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Bayly | Ricard | 1749 | 7th April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Bond | Richard | 1749 | 4th August | Murder of John Richards | Heavitree |
| Cudmore | Matthew | 1749 | 4th August | Horse theft | Heavitree |
| Camp | John | 1749 | 4th August | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Murphy | Edward | 1750 | 12th April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Packard | Elizabeth | 1750 | 12th April | Murdered her husband with poison | Heavitree - Burnt at stake |
| Phillips | Susan | 1750 | 12th April | Murder of her male bastard child | Heavitree |
| Leonard | John | 1750 | 12th April | Coining? | Heavitree |
| Collier | Agnes | 1750 | 3rd August | Murder | Heavitree - alias Cole |
| Hanford | Robert | 1751 | March | - | Heavitree - sentenced but execution not confirmed. |
| Pope | John | 1751 | March | Murdered John Elliott | Heavitree - sentenced but execution not confirmed. |
| Davy | John | 1752 | 3rd April | Murdered his wife, Ann Davy | Heavitree - his body was later hung in chains. |
| Phillips | Joseph | 1752 | 3rd April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Wilson | John | 1752 | 3rd April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Stamp | Robert | 1752 | 3rd April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Jennings | William | 1752 | 10th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree - Jennings sent a letter to Andrew Brice while awaiting execution, requesting that his last confession appear in his newspaper. |
| Huish | William | 1753 | 31st March | Poisoned his father, and beat his mother to death. Found guilty of the second offence. | Heavitree - Huish's body was the first to be dissected by local surgeons. His bones were kept in the cupola of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital for many years. |
| Clay | John | 1753 | 31st August | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Bowan | Lawrence | 1753 | 31st August | Sheep theft | Heavitree |
| Colby | John | 1754 | 5th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Knight | John | 1754 | 19th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Allen | John | 1754 | 23rd August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Butcher | Henry | 1755 | 24th March | Murdered his wife, Elizabeth Butcher. | Heavitree |
| Reed | James | 1755 | 4th April | Stole from a house | Heavitree |
| Hooper | William | 1755 | 4th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Vinneron | John | 1755 | 4th April | Sheep theft | Heavitree |
| Wright | John | 1755 | 14th August | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Broome | Henry | 1755 | 14th August | Cattle theft | Heavitree |
| Menhennit | Charles | 1755 | 14th August | Horse theft | Heavitree |
| Pendrick | Charles | 1755 | 15th August | - | In records for St Sidwells |
| Edwards | Richard | 1756 | 31st March | - | In records for St Sidwells |
| Johnson | Henry | 1756 | 31st March | - | In records for St Sidwells |
| Jones | Thomas | 1756 | 22nd April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Bole | Clement | 1756 | 23rd September | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Lemon | George | 1756 | 31st March | - | In records for St Sidwells |
| Homer | Jonathan | 1756 | 31st March | - | In records for St Sidwells |
| Perkins | Christian | 1756 | 31st March | - | In records for St Sidwells |
| Reynolds | John | 1756 | 31st March | - | In records for St Sidwells |
| Dennis | Samuel | 1756 | 31st March | - | In records for St Sidwells |
| Hill | Stephen | 1757 | 18th August | Stole from a house. | Heavitree |
| Rowe | Roger | 1757 | 18th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Swanscombe | George | 1757 | 18th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Smale | Thomas | 1758 | 20th March | Murder of James Harris | Heavitree |
| Pearce | James | 1758 | 31st March | Cattle theft | Heavitree |
| Lemon | George | 1758 | 31st March | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Sapper | Stephen | 1758 | 31st March | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Perkin | Christian | 1758 | 31st March | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Dennis | Samuel | 1758 | 31st March | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Johnson | Henry | 1758 | 31st March | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Pearce | Thomas | 1758 | 31st March | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Huish | William | 1758 | 31st March | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Edwards | Richard | 1758 | 31st March | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Lattimore | Robert | 1759 | 2nd April | Murder of James Harvey | Heavitree |
| Morgan | John | 1759 | 19th April | Stole from a dwelling house | Heavitree - he was 16 years old. |
| Carter | Thomas | 1759 | 19th April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Connor | Patrick | 1759 | 19th April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Butler | Patrick | 1759 | 19th April | Rape of Mary Baker | Heavitree |
| Watson | John | 1759 | 19th April | Rape of Mary Baker | Heavitree |
| Darras | Charles | 1759 | 25th April | Murder of Jean Menaux | Heavitree |
| Tremaine | Fleurant | 1759 | 25th April | Murder of Jean Menaux | Heavitree |
| Pitiel | Pierre | 1759 | 25th April | Murder of Jean Menaux | Heavitree |
| Boudecq | Louis | 1759 | 25th April | Murder of Jean Menaux | Heavitree |
| Lagnol | Pierre | 1759 | 25th April | Murder of Jean Menaux | Heavitree |
| Homer | Jonathan | 1759 | 24rd August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Halway | John | 1759 | 24rd August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Sutton | Thomas | 1759 | 24rd August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Kellaway | John | 1759 | 24th August | - | Heavitree |
| Reynolds | John | 1759 | 24th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Richards | John | 1759 | 24th August | Escaped from custody for a previous crime. | Heavitree |
| Hingston | Edward | 1760 | 24th March | Murder of Mordecai Solomon | Heavitree |
| Kennady | Edward | 1760 | 11th April | Housebreaking | Heavitree - Recorded by Brice |
| Wish | Samuel | 1761 | 8th July | Murdered his wife | Livery Dole |
| Harris | Richard | 1761 | 17th July | Murder of John Carn | Heavitree |
| Woodrow | Jonas | 1761 | 17th July | Murder of Elizabeth Zane | Heavitree |
| Downey | William | 1761 | 31st July | Highway robbery and rape | Heavitree |
| Fox | James | 1761 | 31st July | Highway robbery and rape | Heavitree |
| Mercer | Thomas | 1761 | 31st July | Highway robbery and rape | Heavitree |
| Kenny | Dennis | 1761 | 31st July | Highway robbery and rape | Heavitree |
| Haynes | Robert | 1762 | 16th April | Murder of a man | Heavitree |
| Mitchell | Pierce | 1762 | 16th April | Murder of Vincent Bevan | Heavitree |
| Goddard | William | 1762 | 16th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Sackemore | John | 1762 | 16th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Clegg | Robert | 1763 | March | Robbery | Heavitree |
| Watts | James | 1763 | March | Robbery | Heavitree |
| Langton | William | 1763 | March | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Gooding | James | 1763 | 30th July | Murder of Samuel Sprogett | Heavitree |
| Connor | Richard | 1763 | 30th July | Murder of Samuel Sprogett | Heavitree |
| More | Pablo | 1763 | 30th July | Murder of William Lock | Heavitree |
| Maunder | Nicholas | 1764 | 26th March | Murder of William Couch | Heavitree |
| Loxham | William | 1764 | 6th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Loxham | William | 1764 | 6th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Carver | Thomas | 1764 | 6th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Cause | William | 1764 | 6th April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Goss | Joal | 1764 | 14th September | Horse theft | Heavitree |
| Nicholls | George | 1765 | 22nd May | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Higgins | Richard | 1765 | 22nd May | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Staddon | Elizabeth | 1765 | 16th August | Arson | Heavitree |
| Vogwell | Thomas | 1765 | 16th August | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Burk | David | 1766 | 4th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Connor | James | 1766 | 4th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Maroney | David | 1766 | 8th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Hockaday | John | 1767 | 28th August | Escaped custody | Heavitree |
| Stiles | John | 1768 | 2nd May | Rape of Ann Tucker | Heavitree |
| Oliver | James | 1768 | 2nd May | Rape of Ann Tucker | Heavitree |
| Owen | John | 1768 | 2nd May | Rape of Ann Tucker | Heavitree |
| Windsor | Ann | 1769 | 27th March | Murder of her 6 month old bastard child, Mary | Heavitree |
| Conig | Christopher | 1771 | 25th March | Murder of James Legett | Heavitree |
| Brooke jr | John | 1772 | 28th August | Sheep theft | Heavitree |
| Mason | Nicholas | 1772 | 28th August | Stole from a house | Heavitree |
| Hallson | Frances | 1773 | 22nd March | Murder of her 3 week old son | Heavitree - aka Mary Hutton |
| Wilkinson | Frances | 1773 | 2nd April | Horse theft | Heavitree |
| Perry | James | 1774 | 8th April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Edwards | William | 1774 | 8th April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Winworth | John | 1774 | 19th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Bradlick | Edward | 1776 | 12th April | Cattle theft | Heavitree |
| Wood | Richard | 1777 | 12th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Bartley | Thomas | 1777 | 8th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Lamb | Thomas | 1777 | 8th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Hamill | Arthur | 1777 | 8th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Hutchings | Edward | 1779 | 22nd March | Murder of hi wife, Mary Hutchings | Heavitree |
| Bishop | Alice | 1779 | 25th May | Murder of her infant daughter | Heavitree |
| Wooton | William | 1780 | 20th March | Murder | Heavitree |
| MacMahon | John | 1780 | 25th August | Stealing from a dwelling house | Heavitree |
| Twisden | Alice | 1780 | 25th August | Stealing from a dwelling house | Heavitree - alternative name Widdison |
| Andrews | John | 1781 | 24th August | Cattle theft | Heavitree |
| Waldron | Elizabeth | 1782 | 25th March | Murder of her male bastard child | Heavitree, hung with one man. |
| Tralhing | John | 1782 | 25th August | Murder of Mary Balkwill | Heavitree |
| Downing | Rebecca | 1782 | 29th July | Poisoning her master, Richard Jarvis | Hung and burnt at Heavitree - standard punishment for poisoning. |
| Masters | Simon | 1783 | 29th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Barnes | Amos | 1783 | 29th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Pidgeon | John | 1783 | 29th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Frazer | Simon | 1783 | 29th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Dogherty | Patrick | 1783 | 29th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Mann | Richard | 1783 | 29th August | Sheep stealing | Heavitree |
| Rumbelow | Elizabeth | 1783 | 29th August | Sheep stealing | Heavitree - 63 years old. |
| Ashbolt | John | 1783 | 26th September | Robbery near Exweek Bridge | Hung at Magdalen Gallows (Livery Dole) - member of the 20th Regiment of Foot |
| Lee | John | 1783 | 26th September | Robbery near Exweek Bridge | Hung at Magdalen Gallows (Livery Dole) - member of the 20th Regiment of Foot |
| Harris | Thomas | 1784 | 2nd April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Peters | William | 1784 | 2ns April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Smart | Thomas | 1784 | 7th August | Murder of Thomas Ewings | Heavitree |
| Folland | John | 1784 | 20th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Quirk | James | 1784 | 20th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Ellwood | Robert | 1785 | 1st April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Bliss | John | 1785 | 1st April | Horse theft | Heavitree |
| Coombe | William | 1785 | 1st April | Horse theft | Heavitree |
| Clarke | William | 1785 | 1st April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Freeman (Friman) | Thomas | 1785 | 1st April | Stole from a house | Heavitree |
| Dare | John | 1785 | 1st April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Russell | Thomas | 1786 | 27th March | Murder of John Breeze | Heavitree |
| Fitzgerald | William | 1787 | 24th January | Highway robbery | Livery Dole - there was only one other execution at Livery Dole after this one, when Holmyard was hung in 1818. |
| Leigh | Richard | 1787 | 9th April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Joyce | Richard | 1787 | 9th April | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Dolling | Edward | 1787 | 9th April | Sheep theft | Heavitree |
| Patrick | William | 1787 | 9th April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Crispin | Thomas | 1787 | 6th August | Sodomy | Heavitree |
| Piper | John | 1787 | 17th August | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Herslake | James | 1786 | 7th April | Cattle theft | Heavitree |
| Brooks | William | 1786 | 7th April | Horse theft | Heavitree |
| Haynes | Daniel Rendall | 1786 | 25th August | Horse theft | Heavitree |
| Patrick | William | 1787 | 9th April | Burglary | Heavitree |
| Smith | William | 1788 | 24th March | Murder of Philip Smith | Heavitree |
| Richards | John | 1788 | 24th March | Murder of Philip Smith | Heavitree |
| Salter | Walter | 1788 | 24th March | Murder of William Jenkins and William Scott | Heavitree - father of Peter Salter below. |
| Salter | Peter | 1788 | 24th March | Murder of William Jenkins and William Scott | Heavitree |
| Goslin | Daniel | 1788 | 24th March | Murder of William Jenkins and William Scott | Heavitree |
| Loosemore | Peter | 1788 | 4th April | Cattle theft | Heavitree |
| Waybourn | James | 1789 | 3rd April | Highway robbery of farmer Stokes near Bickleigh Wood. | Heavitree - he refused to answer any questions on the gallows about his guilt. Times. |
| Snow | William | 1789 | 3rd April | Breaking into the house of Richard Adams in the Parish of Romansleigh. | Heavitree - alias Skitch. He declared on the gallows that the day was the happiest of his life and implored the spectators to avoid his errors. He hung for a few seconds and then his body fell to the ground. He exclaimed "Good people, be not hurried; I can wait a little". The executioner took Snow back onto the cart, adjusted the rope and ".... who was a second time launched from the cart amidst the tears of thousands." Times. |
| Stephens | william | 1789 | 21st August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Ford | Richard | 1789 | 21st August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Turner | George | 1789 | 21st August | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Pope | John | 1790 | 13th August | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Hole | James | 1790 | 13th August | Cattle theft | Heavitree |
| Glanville | Henry | 1791 | 1st April | Arson | Heavitree |
| Ball | William | 1791 | 1st April | Stole from a house | Heavitree |
| Pierce | Joan | 1791 | 26th August | Murder of her female bastard child | Heavitree |
| Tremlett | William | 1792 | 13th April | Housebreaking | Heavitree |
| Ebden | John | 1792 | 13th April | Sheep theft | Heavitree |
| Fullerton | James | 1792 | 13th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Butler | William | 1792 | 13th April | Highway robbery | Heavitree |
| Cuddiver | William | 1792 | 13th April | Sheep theft | Heavitree |
| Martin | Francis | 1793 | 28th March | Robbed postboy | Heavitree - body hung in chains at Halldown (may not have been an Exeter execution) |
| Stone | Joan | 1794 | 4th April | Arson | Heavitree - last to be hanged at Heavitree |
| Martinborough | William | 1795 | 20th March | Murder of Henry Smith | First to be hung at the New Drop, Devon County Gaol – he was described as 'a man of colour'. From Samuel Poole's diary "a Black was Hung on the new Drop for a murder he was the first that was hung at the new Goal." |
| McGregor | William | 1795 | 14th August | Attacked and robbed Daniel Buckley on highway at Plymouth | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol |
| Lee | James | 1795 | 14th August | Attacked and robbed Daniel Buckley on highway at Plymouth | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol |
| Rapson | George | 1795 | 7th August | Stealing six cattle and selling them for £36 | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Wilson | James | 1796 | 1st April | Housebreaking | Devon County Gaol |
| Maiden (Meadon) | Joseph | 1796 | 5th August | Forgery or 'coining' | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – the first of many to be hung for forgery. |
| McIntyre | John | 1798 | 17th August | Escaping from prison hulk awaiting transportation | Had been reprieved from execution for a previous crime and sentenced to transportation. |
| Peel | Peter | 1798 | 17th August | Escaping from prison hulk awaiting transportation | Had been reprieved from execution for a previous crime and sentenced to transportation |
| Nicholson | James | 1798 | 9th April | Passing forged bills of exchange | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol – alias Williams |
| Martin | Mary Ann | 1799 | 23rd March | Poisoning Margaret Palmer | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – for an hour and a half she refused to give the signal to the hang man, protesting her innocence. Her body went to Mr Sheldon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital for dissection. |
| Limpany | Betty | 1799 | 5th April | Arson of the house of her master at Kentisbeare | Hanged at the County Gaol, she was an eighteen year old servant girl |
| Feltham | Edward | 1800 | 22nd August | Stealing a horse at Buckland St Mary | Hanged at the New Drop High Gaol |
| Chimleigh | John | 1800 | 22nd April | Highway robbery between Totnes and Dartmouth | Hanged at the County Gaol. Chimleigh used a large pistol to threaten a second victim. |
| Buywater | Joseph | 1800 | 22nd April | Highway robbery between Totnes and Dartmouth | Hanged at the County Gaol. Buywater used a large pistol to threaten his victim. |
| Trick | John | 1801 | 6th April | Stealing two sheep | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Pooley | James | 1801 | 6th April | Stealing two sheep | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Thorne | William | 1801 | 6th April | Stealing two sheep | Hanged at Devon County Gaol - Jointly charged with Trick above. |
| Fisher | Richard | 1801 | 6th April | Stealing a cow | Hanged at Exeter Gaol and buried in St Sidwells |
| Penson | Henry | 1801 | 6th April | Stole a wether sheep at Teignmouth | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Deane | John | 1801 | 6th April | Robbing 5 shillings on the highway at Stoke Damerel | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Bilson | James | 1801 | 6th April | Theft from the Naval Stores at Plymouth | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – stole seventeen seamen's beds and nineteen hammocks. |
| Hockaday | William | 1802 | 27th August | Burglary and serious assault at Saltram, Plymouth | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – one of a band of twelve involved in the crime, although only Hockaday and Jewell below were caught. |
| Pollard | John | 1802 | 27th August | Forging a letter of attorney | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol |
| Jewell | Mathias | 1802 | 27th August | Burglary and serious assault at Saltram, Plymouth | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – one of a band of twelve involved in the crime, although only Jewell and Hockaday above were caught. |
| Smith | William | 1802 | 9th April | Burglary at East Stonehouse, Plymouth | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – stole a piece of muslin, twelve shawls and three lengths of silk. |
| Hoost | Thomas | 1802 | 9th April | Passing forged £5 notes to Daniel Stockey at Plymouth | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol – one of six hanged that day. |
| Hughes | James | 1802 | 9th April | Passing £2 forged notes at Plymouth | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol. |
| Boost | Robert | 1802 | 9th April | Passing forged bank notes | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol. |
| Blade | William | 1802 | 9th April | Forging Bank of England bank notes | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol. |
| Allen | John | 1802 | 9th April | Attempted to pass off a forged payment for prize money to Michael Nathan | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol – prize money was paid to sailors from the proceeds of capturing enemy ships. |
| Hunt | Henry | 1804 | 6th April | Stealing several horses near London | Hunt took the horses to Uplyme |
| Hulee (Rogers) | Betsy | 1805 | 12th August | Murdered her husband with a penknife | Hanged at Devon County Gaol and her body used for dissection |
| Comer | Simon | 1805 | April | Forged a deed of gift (bequest in a will) | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol |
| Hayes | John | 1805 | August | Ravishing an eleven year old child. | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Lopes | Vicentes | 1806 | 4th August | Murder of Ciriaco Peres at Millbay Prison – both were POWs | Hanged at Devon County Gaol and his body used for dissection |
| Rendle | John Davis | 1806 | August | Attempting to pass two forged bills of exchange at Plymouth | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol leaving a wife and two children. |
| Pain | Benjamin | 1808 | April | Attempting to pass a forged £50 Bill of Exchange. | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol o f five condemned to death that April all were reprieved except Pain. |
| Tapp | George | 1808 | August | Murdered his lover, Robert Leach | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Coz | Jane | 1811 | 12th August | Poisoned a baby, John Tremman, with arsenic under orders from Arthur Tucker | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – Arthur Tucker was the illigitimate child's father. |
| Williams | James | 1812 | 3rd April | Highway robbery between Honiton and Yarcombe | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol – the haul included a handkerchief, pair of gloves and two pieces of paper worth a penny. |
| Luscombe | Thomas | 1813 | 26th March | Convicted of two murders one in 1812 and one in 1813 | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – 10,000 watched his execution and his body was taken for dissection by Mr Robert Patch. |
| Vincent | William | 1815 | 15th August | Murder of Thomas Wills, Customs Officer while smuggling from Guernsey in 1805 | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – he attempted to cut his own throat the night before the execution and was taken to the gallows on a bed. |
| Summers | Samual | 1815 | 7th April | Attempted poisoning of Richard Denning at Ottery St Mary | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Norton | Samuel | 1815 | April | Murder of Mrs Metters of Whitchurch | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol |
| Chisholm | John Josiah | 1815 | August | Attempting to escape while awaiting trial for passing a counterfeit bill. | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Finson | Robert | 1817 | 24th March | Murdering his wife during a violent quarrel | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Holmyard | Samuel | 1818 | 13th November | Using a forged Exeter City Bank, one pound note | Livery Dole – he was the last County of Exeter prisoner from the South Gate prison to be taken to Livery Dole for execution, on Friday, the 13th November. This was also the first City of Exeter execution for 32 year. See the Exeter Banks article for more. |
| Green | John | 1818 | 30th March | Murdered his lover by cutting her throat | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Prinn | John | 1818 | April | Committing homosexual acts with men and a boy | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Woodman | Mary | 1819 | 22nd April | Poisoning her husband with arsenic | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Northcott | John | 1819 | 2nd April | Stealing four oxen at Colebrook | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Atkins | Joseph | 1819 | 2nd April | Bestiality | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – he refused to give the signal to the hangman to proceed, delaying the execution. |
| Hellings | Samuel | 1819 | 3rd April | Attempted murder of his mother with arsenic | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Cribb | James | 1820 | 18th August | Passing forged £10 bank notes | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – he was part of a gang of forgers operating around Bovey Tracey, Chudleigh and Hennock. |
| Musgrove | Thomas | 1820 | March | Stealing a sheep at Uffculme | Retired soldier who had served for fourteen years. |
| Bowden | William | 1821 | 6th April | Burglary at Chudleigh and stole £140 of cash and notes | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol – 18 years old |
| Bagwell | John | 1821 | 6th April | Footpad robbery on the highway between Knackershole and Plymouth | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – he committed a second offence that night but was acquitted. |
| Bowden | James | 1821 | 6th April | Burglary at Chudleigh and stole £140 of cash and notes | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol – 21 years old |
| Chappell | Philip | 1822 | 25th March | Murdered by drowning and beating and dumped in mill stream at Torrington | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – the victim, Mary Stevens was heavily pregnant by Chappell at the time. |
| Perry | John | 1822 | 8th April | Arson of his tenants cottage for insurance | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – witnesses stated he used a candle to fire the cottage. |
| Radford | John | 1823 | 28th July | Drowned his pregnant girfriend | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – he gave the signal three times before the hang man was ready and exclaimed that he was 'very happy, very happy'. |
| Bolt | John | 1823 | 4th April | Attempted murder of Jane Jusland with a pistol at Lifton Park | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Orchard | John | 1827 | 2nd April | Mortgage forgery on his father's property | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – he was the last forger in Devon to be executed |
| Friend | Thomas | 1827 | 2nd April | Murdered Sarah and her son Edward Glass at Beaworthy parish | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Champion | George | 1827 | 24th August | Burglary of a Tiverton shop | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – alias Brewer he stole 3 gold watches, eighty gold rings thirty one brooches, twelve silver spoons and a diamond pin. |
| James | John | 1827 | 24th August | Burglary of a Tiverton shop | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – alias Lewis he stole 3 gold watches, eighty gold rings thirty one brooches, twelve silver spoons and a diamond pin. |
| Quantance | Richard | 1829 | 17th August | Assisted Kezia Westcombe his lover to murder her husband Samuel Westcombe with arsenic. | Hanged at Devon County Gaol - he said on the gallows to Westcombe 'I hope we shall meet again'. |
| Westcombe | Kezia | 1829 | 17th August | Murdered, with her lover Richard Quantance, her husband Samuel Westcombe with arsenic. | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – she said on the gallows to Quantance her lover they would meet 'In Heaven'. |
| Hilston | Thomas | 1829 | 3rd April | Attempted murder of James Jeffrey on the road between Plympton and Buckfastleigh | Hanged at Exeter prison – Hilston said on the scaffold 'My conscience is clear'. |
| Trethew | William | 1829 | 3rd April | Attempted murder of James Jeffrey on the road between Plympton and Buckfastleigh | Hanged at Exeter prison – Trethew declared his innocence on the scaffold |
| Cudmore | George | 1830 | 25th March | Poisoning his wife Grace – his lover Sarah Dunn was found not guilty | Hanged at Exeter prison – his body was dissected at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and his skin removed. Twenty years later it was used to bind a copy of the Works of John Milton. |
| Cornish | William Bissett | 1830 | August | Bestiality | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – last man to be hung in Devon for a crime other than murder. |
| Kellaway | Mary | 1832 | 26th March | Murdered her illegitimate child hours after its birth. | Hanged at Devon County Gaol – she was twenty eight and unmarried when she gave birth in a shared room in Devonport. On the gallows she said 'There is no one shedding a tear for me'. |
| Oliver | Thomas | 1836 | 16th July | Murder of Mr May on the road at Jacob's Well near Moretonhampstead | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol – celebrated case where his so called accomplice Edmund Galley was reprieved after a campaign by Thomas Latimer. |
| Landick | James | 1849 | 9th April | Murder of Mrs Grace Holman | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol – watched by forty thousand. |
| Sparkes | George | 1853 | 1st April | Murder of William Blackmore | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol. |
| Harvey | Talmage | 1854 | 4th August | Murder of Mary Richards at Taddiport | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol along with llewellyn Garret for the same crime. Buckland Brewer. |
| Garret | Llewellyn | 1854 | 4th August | Murder of Mary Richards at Taddiport | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol in front of a large crowd – he was a chimney sweep from Buckland Brewer. |
| Hackett | Robert | 1861 | 30th March | Murdered Henry Jones | Hanged at the New Drop, Exeter Gaol |
| Ashford | Mary Anne | 1866 | 28th March | Murdered her husband | Last public execution of a woman at the County Gaol in front of 20,000 |
| Grant | John | 1866 | 15th August | Murdered Philip Boobier | Last public execution at the County Gaol |
| Taylor | William | 1869 | 11th October | Murder of Cpl. Arthur Skullen | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Macdonald | John | 1874 | 10th August | Murdered his girl friend, Bridget Walsh. | Hanged by John Calcraft at Devon County Gaol |
| Hassel | William | 1877 | 19th November | While drunk, stabbed his wife three times with a pig-knife while she breastfed her baby. | Hanged at Devon County Gaol by William Marwood |
| Tooke | Annie | 1879 | 11th August | Murdered 6 month old Reginald Hyde | The torso of the child was found in the leat of Powhay Mill by Edward Stookes. The body parts were taken to the Alexandra Inn to be examined by a surgeon. Hanged at Devon County Gaol by William Marwood |
| Williams | William | 1893 | 28th March | Murdered Emma Dodge | Hanged at Devon County Gaol |
| Elliot | Edmund | 1909 | 30th March | Murdered Clara Jane Hannaford, ex girlfirend | Hanged at Exeter prison |
| Cunliffe | George | 1913 | 25th February | Murdered Kate (Kitty) Butler, his girlfriend | Hanged at Exeter prison |
| Honeylands | James | 1914 | 12th March | Murdered Amelia Bradfield | Hanged at Exeter prison |
| Brooks | Frederick | 1916 | 12th December | Murdered Alice Clara Gregory | Hanged at Exeter prison |
| Saunders | Cyril | 1920 | 30th November | Murdered his cousin, Dorothy May Saunders | Hanged at Exeter prison |
| Black | Edward Ernest | 1922 | 24th March | Murdered his wife Annie Black | Hanged at Exeter prison |
| Maynard | William | 1928 | 27th July | Murdered Richard Francis Roadley | Hanged at Exeter prison |
| Bryant | Charlotte | 1936 | 15th July | Poisoning husband with arsenic | Hanged by Tom Pierrepoint at Exeter Prison. A large, anti-capital punishment vigil was held outside the prison. It is said that Bryant's black hair turned white while awaiting execution. Ministered by Father Barney. More on Charlotte Bryant |
| Davis | Philip | 1937 | 27th July | Murder of Wilhelmina Davis (wife), and Monica Rowe (niece) | Hanged at Exeter prison |
| Moss | Ernest John | 1937 | 7th December | Murder of Kitty Bennett, girlfriend | Hanged at Exeter prison |
| Trenoweth | Gordon | 1943 | 6th April | Murdered Albert Bateman | Last man to be hung at Exeter prison |