4 February

The gang raids Earlsbury Farm, Edgware, torturing the farmer Joseph Lawrence.

Dick Turpin Executed

No night ride to York, no Black Bess: the real Dick Turpin was an Essex gang robber and killer, hanged at York in 1739 for stealing horses.

He is tried at the Leeds Assizes for Dyson's murder and convicted.

Charles Peace Executed

A limping Sheffield burglar shot two men, let an innocent one take the blame, and lived as a respectable gentleman in Peckham until a Blackheath break-in.