Luke Hutton (died 1598) was an English criminal and reputed author.Bullen 1891, p. 356.

Identity

Luke Hutton is stated by Sir John Harington to have been a younger son of Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York; but

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, whose account is adopted by

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and

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, asserts, with more probability, that he was the son of Robert Hutton, Rector of Houghton-le-Spring and Prebendary of Durham.

Life

Luke Hutton matriculated as a sizar of

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, in October 1582; left the University without a degree, and took to evil courses. He was 'so valiant that he feared not men nor Laws'. In 1598, for a robbery committed on St. Luke's Day, he was executed at

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, the Archbishop magnanimously forbearing to intercede on his behalf.

Works

He is the reputed author of: * ''Luke Button's Repentance'', a manuscript poem dedicated to Henry, Earl of Huntingdon. * ''The Black Dogge of Newgate, both pithie and profitable for all readers'',

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, dedicated to Lord-Chief-Justice Popham; reprinted with additional matter in 1638. From a passage in the preface we learn that the ''Repentance'' had been printed. In the first edition the tract begins with a poem describing a vision that appeared to the author in

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. The poem, which treats of the harshness of gaolers and miseries of prison-life, is followed by a prose ''Dialogue betwixt the Author and one Zawney'', concerning ' coneycatching'. * A lost play bearing the title ''The Black Dog of Newgate'', 2 parts, by Hathway, Wentworth Smith, and Day, was produced in 1602. * After Hutton's execution appeared a broadside ballad, ''Luke Hutton's Lamentation which he wrote the day before his death''

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* ''The discovery of a London monster'' (1638).Shrank 2004.

References

Sources

* Fuller, Thomas (1845). ''The Church History of Britain'', ed. J. S. Brewer
Vol. 5
Oxford: At the University Press. p. 356. * Harington, John (1653).
A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England
'. London: Printed for Jos. Kirton. p. 192. * Hutchinson, William (1785). ''The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham''
Vol. 1
Newcastle: Printed for S. Hodgson & Robinsons. p. 470. * Judges, A. V. (1965). '' The Elizabethan Underworld''. 2nd ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. pp. lxiii–lxiv, 265–95, 439, 503, 506–8. * Shrank, Cathy (2004)
"Hutton, Luke (d. 1598), highwayman and writer"
In ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 8 August 2022. * Thoresby, Robert (1724). ''Vicaria Leodiensis, or, The History of the Church of Leedes in Yorkshire.'' London: Printed for Joseph Smith. * Henslowe, Philip (1904). '' Henslowe's Diary'', ed. Walter W. Greg. London: A. H. Bullen. pp. 185, 187, 188. * ''Musæum Thoresbyanum, a catalogue of the collection of Ralph Thoresby'' 764 Attribution: *

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