See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN [See also:

• JACK

JACK] See also:

• JOHN [JACK] SHEPPARD (1702-1724)

SHEPPARD (1702-1724)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English criminal, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• STEPNEY
• STEPNEY, GEORGE (1663-1707)

Stepney, near See also:

• LONDON

London, in See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1702 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, who, like his grandfather and See also:

• GREAT

great-grandfather, was a See also:

• CARPENTER, LANT (1780-1840)
• CARPENTER, MIRY (1807-1877)
• CARPENTER, WILLIAM BENJAMIN (1813-1885)

carpenter, died the following See also:

• YEAR

year, and See also:

• JACK

Jack See also:

• SHEPPARD, JOHN [JACK] (1702-1724)

Sheppard was brought up in the Bishopsgate workhouse . One of his father's old employers apprenticed him to the See also:

• FAMILY

family See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade, but See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young Sheppard See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell into See also:

• BAD, BCD

bad See also:

• COMPANY

company at a neighbouring See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane See also:

• TAVERN

tavern . Here he met See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth See also:

• LYON, MARY MASON (1797-1849)
• LYON, NATHANIEL (1818-1861)

Lyon, known as " See also:

• EDGEWORTH, MARIA (1767-1849)
• EDGEWORTH, RICHARD LOVELL (1744-1817)

Edgeworth Bess," a woman of loose See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character with whom he lived, and to gratify whose tastes he committed many of his crimes . At the end of 1723 he was arrested as a runaway apprentice, and thence-forward, he says, " I fell to robbing almost every one that stood. in my way," See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph See also:

• BLAKE, EDWARD (1833– )
• BLAKE, ROBERT (1599-1657)
• BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827)

Blake, known as " Blueskin," being a frequent confederate . In the first six months of 1724 he twice escaped from See also:

• GAOL, or JAIL

gaol, and towards the end of that See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period he was responsible for an almost daily See also:

• ROBBERY (from O. Fr. rober, to steal)

robbery in or near London . Eventually, however, his See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent attitude provoked the See also:

• BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter enmity of See also:

• JONATHAN
• JONATHAN (Heb. " Yah [weh] gives ")

Jonathan See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

Wild, who procured his See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture at the end of See also:

• JULY

July . Sheppard was tried at the Old See also:

• BAILEY (said to be a corruption of Ballium by some, and derived by others from the Fr. baille, a corruption of bataille, because there the soldiers were drilled in battle array)
• BAILEY, NATHAN
• BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES (1816-1902)
• BAILEY, SAMUEL (1791-1870)

Bailey and condemned to See also:

• DEATH

death, but, largely thanks to " Edgeworth Bess," he managed to See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape from the condemned See also:

• CELL (from Lat. cella, probably from an Indo-European kal —seen in Lat. celare, to hide; another suggestion connects the word with Lat. cera, wax, taking the original meaning to refer to the honeycomb)

cell, and was soon back in his old haunts . In See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September he was rearrested and imprisoned in the strongest See also:

• PART

part of Newgate, being actually chained to the See also:

• FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor of his cell, but by a See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of strength and skill he escaped through the See also:

• CHIMNEY (through the Fr. cheminee, from caminata, sc. camera, a Lat. derivative of caminus, an oven or furnace)

chimney to the roof of the See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison, whence he lowered himself into the adjoining See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house . After a few days' concealment he was rash enough to reappear in the Drury Lane See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter . He was captured, hopelessly drunk, in a See also:

• CLARE
• CLARE, JOHN (1793-1864)
• CLARE, JOHN FITZGIBBON, 1ST EARL OF (1749-1802)

Clare See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

Market tavern and reimprisoned, his cell being now watched See also:

• NIGHT

night and See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . On the 16th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1724 he was hanged at See also:

• TYBURN

Tyburn .

He was then not quite twenty-two . Sheppard has been made the unworthy See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero of much See also:

• ROMANCE

romance, of which See also:

• HARRISON
• HARRISON, BENJAMIN
• HARRISON, FREDERIC (1831— )
• HARRISON, JOHN (1693—1776)
• HARRISON, THOMAS (16o6-166o)
• HARRISON, THOMAS ALEXANDER (1853– )
• HARRISON, WILLIAM (1534–1593)
• HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY (1773–1841)

Harrison See also:

• AINSWORTH, HENRY (1571–1622)
• AINSWORTH, ROBERT (166o-1743)
• AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON (1805-1882)

Ainsworth's novel, Jack Sheppard (1839), is the most notable instance . In truth he was merely a vulgar See also:

• SCOUNDREL

scoundrel, who did not hesitate to rob his only real friend . See A Narrative of all the Robberies, Escapes, &c., of See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Sheppard, attributed to See also:

• DANIEL
• DANIEL (DANIL)
• DANIEL, BOOK
• DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)

Daniel See also:

• DEFOE, DANIEL (c. 1.659—1731)

Defoe (London, 1724) ; Newgate See also:

• CALENDAR

Calendar, ed . Knapp and See also:

• BALDWIN, JAMES MARK (1861– )
• BALDWIN, ROBERT (1804–1858)

Baldwin; Griffiths, See also:

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

Chronicles of Newgate; See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal (See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August, See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1724) ; Weekly Journal (August, September, November 1724) ; Celebrated Trials .