Alternative forms

• byshop (obsolete)

Noun

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2. (ChristianityCategory:en:Christianity#BISHOP) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.

   Hypernym: cleric

   • 1641, “Smectymnuus”, in Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr., §16. 208:

     King James of blessed memory said, no Bishop, no King: it was not he, but others that added, No Ceremony, no Bishop.

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   • 1715, William Hendley, A Defence of the Church of England, section 16:

     St. Ignatius... In his 'Epiſtle to the Magneſians,' he exhorts them to do all things in the love of God, telling them, the Biſhop preſides in the place of God...

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   • 1845, J. Lingard, Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church, 3rd edition, I. iv. 146:

     These ministers were at first confined to the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons.

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   • 1868, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, St. Paul's epistle to the Philippians, section 93:

     It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the Church is called indifferently ‘bishop’ ἐπίσκοπος and ‘elder’ or ‘presbyter’ πρεσβύτερος.

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   • 2013, Maureen Abbott, New Lights from Old Truths: Living the Signs of the Times‎, volume IV, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 375:

     The Jubilee Mass had a special solemnity due to the presence of two exiled Chinese bishops—Thomas Cardinal Tien, Archbishop of Peking, and Bishop Joseph Yuen, of Chu-ma-tien, Honan—as well as the recently named bishop of Taichung, Formosa, Most Rev. William Kupfer, MM, who was in the United States to attend the Maryknoll General Chapter.

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   1. (religionCategory:en:Religion#BISHOP, nonstandardCategory:English nonstandard terms#BISHOP) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
      • 1586, Pierre de la Primaudaye, translated by Thomas Bowes, The French Academie, I. 633:

        The Caliphaes of the Sarasins were kings and chiefe bishops in their religion.

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      • 1615, William Bedwell, Arabian Trudgman in translating Mohammedis Imposturæ, sig. N4

        The Byshop of Egypt is called the Souldan.

      • 2001, José Carlos Valle Pérez, Jorge Rodrigues, El arte románico en Galicia y Portugal, page 254:

        […] which explains the beheading of the Muslim Bishop of Lisbon, soon after the Reconquista.

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      • 2018, Merran Fraenkel, Tribe and Class in Monrovia, page 139:

        The [holder of the office of] Imam [of Monrovia] is commonly referred to, both in conversation and in the press, as ‘the Muslim Bishop’.

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3. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#BISHOP) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
   • 1808, The Monthly Magazine and British Register, 26 109:

     They gave away corn, not cash; and Cicero was made bishop, or overseer, of this public victualling.

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4. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#BISHOP) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
   • a. 1627 (date written), Lancelot Andrewes, “Seven Sermons upon the Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness. Sermon IV.”, in J[ohn] P[osthumous] W[ilson], editor, Ninety-six Sermons […], volume V, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker, published 1843, →OCLC, page 516:

     There is no place we see privileged from temptations, no desert so solitary but the devil will seek it out; no pinnacle so high but the devil is a bishop over it, to visit and overlook it.

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5. A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
7. (chessCategory:en:Chess#BISHOP) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
   • 1562, Rowbotham in Archaeologia, XXIV. 203

     The Bishoppes some name Alphins, some fooles, and some name them Princes; other some call them Archers.

   • 1656, Gioachino Greco, “The royall game of chesse-play, being the study of Biochimo”, in Francis Beale, transl., (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     A Bishop or Archer, who is commonly figured with his head cloven.

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9. Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
10. (dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#BISHOP) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
    • 1875, William Douglas Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect:

      ‘Bishop, Bishop-Barnabee,
      Tell me when my wedding shall be;
      If it be to-morrow day,
      Ope your wings and fly away.

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11. A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
12. A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
    • ante 1745, Jonathan Swift, Women who cry Apples in Works (1746), VIII. 192

      Well roasted, with Sugar and Wine in a Cup,

      They'll make a sweet Bishop.

    • 1791, J. Boswell, Life of Johnson, anno 1752 I. 135

      A bowl of that liquor called Bishop, which Johnson had always liked.

    • 1801, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems, II. 169:

      Spicy bishop, drink divine.

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13. (USCategory:American English#BISHOP, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#BISHOP) A bustle.
    • c. 1860, John Saxe, Progress:

      If, by her bishop, or her 'grace' alone,
      A genuine lady, or a church, is known.

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14. (UKCategory:British English#BISHOP, dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#BISHOP, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#BISHOP) A children's smock or pinafore.
    • 1874, Evelyn Waugh in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.)

      Here; tak him, an wesh him; an' put him a clen bishop on.

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• Bishop

church official, supervisor of priests and congregations; included in place names

• abbot-bishop
• antibishop
• archbishop
• assistant-bishop, assistant bishop
• as the actress said to the bishop
• auxiliary bishop
• bad bishop
• bash the bishop
• beat the bishop
• Bishop Auckland
• Bishop Barker
• Bishop Burton
• bishop-coadjutor, bishop coadjutor
• bishop-commissioner
• bishop-designate
• bishop-designed
• bishopdom
• bishop-elect
• bishop emeritus
• bishopess
• bishopful
• bishophood
• bishoping
• (obsolete) bishopist
• bishopless
• bishoplet
• bishoplike
• bishopling
• bishoply
• Bishop Monkton
• bishop of Rome
• bishop pawn
• bishopric, bishoprick
• Bishopric of the Forces
• Bishop's Bible, Bishops' Bible
• Bishops Cannings
• Bishop's Castle
• Bishop's Cleeve
• Bishop's Clyst
• bishop's collar
• bishop's court
• bishop-seat
• bishop-see
• Bishop's Falls
• Bishopsgate
• bishopship
• Bishop's Hull
• Bishop's Itchington
• bishop sleeve
• bishop's length
• Bishops Lydeard
• Bishop's Nympton
• bishop's sleeve
• Bishop's Stortford
• Bishop's Tawton
• Bishopsteignton
• Bishop's Waltham
• Bishop to the Forces
• (obsolete) bishopwick
• Bishop Wilton
• bop the bishop
• boy bishop, boy-bishop
• cardinal bishop
• Cheriton Bishop
• coadjutor bishop
• cobishop
• Compton Bishop
• diocesan bishop
• even-bishop
• flog the bishop
• flying bishop
• French bishop
• good bishop
• highbishop
• Lord Bishop
• metropolitan bishop
• missionary bishop
• presiding bishop
• prince-bishop, prince bishop
• ruling bishop
• said the actress to the bishop
• smoking bishop
• suffragan bishop
• Synod of Bishops
• titular bishop
• unbishop
• Wickham Bishops

• (African weaverbirds):

• Angola black bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Angola%20black%20bishop (Euplectes gierowii gierowiiCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subspecies)#Euplectes%20gierowii%20gierowii)
• bishop-birdCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop-bird, bishop bird (Euplectes spp.)
• black bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#black%20bishop (Euplectes gierowiiCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20gierowii)
• black-winged red bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#black-winged%20red%20bishop (Euplectes hordeaceusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20hordeaceus)
• Cape bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Cape%20bishop (Euplectes capensisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20capensis)
• fire-crowned bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#fire-crowned%20bishop (Euplectes hordeaceusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20hordeaceus)
• fire-fronted bishop (Euplectes diadematusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20diadematus)
• golden-backed bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#golden-backed%20bishop (Euplectes aureusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20aureus)
• northern black bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#northern%20black%20bishop (Euplectes gierowii ansorgeiCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subspecies)#Euplectes%20gierowii%20ansorgei)
• northern red bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#northern%20red%20bishop (Euplectes franciscanusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20franciscanus)
• orange bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#orange%20bishop (Euplectes franciscanusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20franciscanus)
• red bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#red%20bishop (Euplectes orixCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20orix)
• southern black bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#southern%20black%20bishop (Euplectes gierowii friederichseniCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subspecies)#Euplectes%20gierowii%20friederichseni)
• southern red bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#southern%20red%20bishop (Euplectes orixCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20orix)
• yellow bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#yellow%20bishop (Euplectes capensisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20capensis)
• yellow-crowned bishop (Euplectes aferCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20afer)
• Zanzibar red bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Zanzibar%20red%20bishop (Euplectes nigroventrisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Euplectes%20nigroventris)

other terms with "bishop". Unsorted

• bishop-leavesCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop-leaves (Scrophularia aquaticaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Scrophularia%20aquatica)
• bishop manzanitaCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop%20manzanita (Arctostaphylos obispoensisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Arctostaphylos%20obispoensis)
• bishop milkvetchCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop%20milkvetch (Astragalus sepultipesCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Astragalus%20sepultipes)
• bishop pineCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop%20pine (Pinus muricataCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Pinus%20muricata)
• bishop ploverCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop%20plover (Arenaria interpres)
• bishop's cap, bishop's-cap (Mitella diphyllaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Mitella%20diphylla)
• bishop's elderCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop's%20elder
• bishop's goutweedCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop's%20goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria)
• bishop's hatCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop's%20hat (Epimedium grandiflorumCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Epimedium%20grandiflorum)
• bishop's laceCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop's%20lace (Daucus carota)
• bishop's leavesCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop's%20leaves (Scrophularia aquaticaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Scrophularia%20aquatica)
• bishop's lotusCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop's%20lotus (Acmispon strigosusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Acmispon%20strigosus)
• bishop's milkvetchCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop's%20milkvetch (Astragalus episcopusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Astragalus%20episcopus
• bishop's mitreCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop's%20mitre (Aelia acuminataCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Aelia%20acuminata)
• bishop's mitre shield bugCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop's%20mitre%20shield%20bug (Aelia acuminataCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Aelia%20acuminata)
• bishops's hat cactusCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishops's%20hat%20cactus (Astrophytum myriostigmaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Astrophytum%20myriostigma)
• Bishops sugarbushesCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Bishops%20sugarbush (Protea sect. ObvallataeCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (section)#Protea%20sect.%20Obvallatae)
• bishop's toadCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop's%20toad (Rhinella alataCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Rhinella%20alata)
• bishop's torchCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop's%20torch (Kniphofia uvariaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Kniphofia%20uvaria)
• bishop's weed, bishopsweed, bishop's-weed (Aegopodium podagraria)
• bishop's-wort, bishop's wort (Betonica macranthaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Betonica%20macrantha)
• bishop toothcarpCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop%20toothcarp (Brachyrhaphis episcopiCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Brachyrhaphis%20episcopi)
• bishop-weedCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop-weed
• bishop wood (Bischofia javanicaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Bischofia%20javanica)
• bishop wortCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bishop%20wort
• false bishop's weedCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#false%20bishop's%20weed (Ammi majus)
• five-faced bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#five-faced%20bishop (Adoxa moschatellinaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Adoxa%20moschatellina)
• mock bishopweedsCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#mock%20bishopweed (Ptilimnium spp.)
• oval-leaf bishop's-capCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#oval-leaf%20bishop's-cap (Brewerimitella ovalisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Brewerimitella%20ovalis)
• prairie bishopCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#prairie%20bishop (Bifora americanaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Bifora%20americana)
• twoleaf bishop's capCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#twoleaf%20bishop's%20cap (Mitella diphyllaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (diphylla)#Mitella%20diphylla)

See also

Chess pieces in English · chess pieces, chessmen (see also: chess) (layout · text)
king	queen	rook, castle	bishop	knight	pawn

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forms of address, clothing, etc

• (forms of address) your Grace, your Excellency, my Lord, my Lord Bishop
• (styles) Most Reverend, Right Reverend
• (territory) diocese, see
• (headquarters) cathedral, catholicon, katholikon, sobor
• (clothing) alb, amice, biretta, buskins (stockings), cappa magna, cassalb, cassock, chasuble, choir dress, cope, dalmatic (tunic), epimanikia (cuffs), episcopal gloves, episcopal sandals, epitrachil, mantya (mantle), mitre (hat), omophor, phelonion, rochet (surplice), sakkos, sticharion, stole, tunicle, vestments, zucchetto (skullcap)
• (accessories) bugia, cathedra (throne), crozier (staff), dikirion, engolpion, epigonation, episcopal ring, fashia (sash), maniple, orletz (rug), panagia, pectoral cross, trikirion, zone (belt)

Verb

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1. (ChristianityCategory:en:Christianity#BISHOP) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
   • c. 1000, Thorpe's Laws, II. 348 (Bosw.)

     Se bisceop biþ gesett... to bisceopgenne cild.

   • c. 1315, Shoreham, section 5:

     Wanne the bisschop, bisschopeth the
     Tokene of marke he set on the.

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   • 1622, W. Yonge, Diary, published 1848, section 50:

     The Marquis of Buckingham and his wife were both bishopped, or confirmed by the Bishop of London.

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   • 1655, T. Fuller, Church-hist. Brit., ix. 81:

     Harding and Saunders Bishop it in England.

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   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 35:

     Here too physical effects were vulgarly attributed to the ceremony… as evidenced by the case of the old Norfolk woman who claimed to have been ‘bishopped’ seven times, because she found it helped her rheumatism.

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   1. (by extension, jocularly, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#BISHOP) To confirm (in its other senses).
      • 1596, W. Warner, Albions Eng., x. liv. 243:

        Why sent they it by Felton to be bishoped at Paules?

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      • 1700, Boccaccio, “Cymon & Iphigenia”, in John Dryden, transl., Fables, section 550:

        He... chose to bear The Name of Fool confirm'd, and Bishop'd by the Fair.

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2. (ChristianityCategory:en:Christianity#BISHOP) To make a bishop.
   • 1549, H. Latimer, 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie, 5th Serm. sig. Pviv

     Thys hathe bene often tymes... sene in preachers before they were byshoppyd or benificed.

   • 1861 November 23, Sat. Rev., 537

     There may be other... matters to occupy the thoughts of one about to be bishopped.

3. (ChristianityCategory:en:Christianity#BISHOP, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#BISHOP) To provide with bishops.
   • 1865 December 6, Daily Telegraph, 5/3

     Italy would be well bishoped if her episcopacy... did not exceed fifty-nine.

4. (UKCategory:British English#BISHOP, dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#BISHOP) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
   • ante 1536, Tyndale, Works, 166 (T.)

     If the porage be burned to, or the meate ouer rosted, we say the bishop hath put his foote in the potte or the bishop hath played the cooke, because the bishops burn who they lust and whosoever displeaseth them.

   • 1641, John Milton, Animadversions, section 9:

     It will be as bad as the Bishops foot in the broth.

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   • 1738, Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat., Jonathan Swift, section 10:

     The Cream is burnt to.
     Betty. Why, Madam, the Bishop has set his Foot in it.

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   • 1863, E. C. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, I. 64:

     She canna stomach it if it's bishopped e'er so little.

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   • 1875, Lanc. Gloss., section 40:

     Th' milk's bishopped again!

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5. (by extension, of equestrianismCategory:en:Equestrianism#BISHOP) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
   • 1727, R. Bradley, Family Dict. at "Horse"

     This way of making a Horse look young is... called Bishoping.

   • 1788, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, Francis Grose:

     Bishopped, or To bishop. A term among horſe dealers, for burning the mark into a horſe's tooth, after he has loſt it by age... It is a common ſaying of milk that is burnt to, that the biſhop has fet his foot in it. Formerly, when a biſhop paſſed through a village, all the inhabitants ran out of their houſes to ſolicit his bleſſing, even leaving their milk, &c. on the fire, to take its chance; which, when burnt to, was ſaid to be biſhopped.

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   • 1840, E. E. Napier, Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands, I. v. 138:

     I found his teeth had been filed down and bishoped with the greatest neatness and perfection.

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1. (UKCategory:British English#BISHOP, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#BISHOP, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#BISHOP) To murder by drowning.
   • 1840, R.H. Barham, Some Account of a New Play in Ingoldsby Legends 1st series, 308

     I Burked the papa, now I'll Bishop the son.

   • 1870, Walter Thornbury, Old Stories Re-told:

     There were no more Burking murders until 1831, when two men, named Bishop and Williams, drowned a poor [14-year-old] Italian boy in Bethnal Green, and sold his body to the surgeons.

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   • 2002, Helen Smith, Grave-Robbers, Cut-throats, and Poisoners of London, section 66:

     John Bishop and another grave-robber called Thomas Williams had drowned the boy, a woman and another boy in a well in John Bishop's garden in Bethnal Green... Bishop and Williams were hanged outside Newgate Prison in December 1831 in front of an angry crowd of 30,000.

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