Luke Hutton

Luke Hutton (died 1598) was an English criminal and reputed author.^[1]

Identity

Luke Hutton is stated by Sir John Harington to have been a younger son of Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York; but Thomas Fuller, whose account is adopted by Ralph Thoresby and William Hutchinson, asserts, with more probability, that he was the son of Robert Hutton, Rector of Houghton-le-Spring and Prebendary of Durham.^[1]

Life

Luke Hutton matriculated as a sizar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 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'.^[2] In 1598, for a robbery committed on St. Luke's Day, he was executed at York, the Archbishop magnanimously forbearing to intercede on his behalf.^[1]

Works

• 
  The Black Dogge of Newgate: both pithie and profitable for all Readers (c. 1596)
• 
  The Discovery of a London Monster, called The Blacke Dogg of New-gate (1612)

He is the reputed author of:

• Luke Button's Repentance, a manuscript poem dedicated to Henry, Earl of Huntingdon.^[3]
• The Black Dogge of Newgate, both pithie and profitable for all readers, black letter, n.d., 4to, 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 Newgate. 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.^[4]
• After Hutton's execution appeared a broadside ballad, Luke Hutton's Lamentation which he wrote the day before his death [1598].^[5]
• The discovery of a London monster (1638).^[6]

See also

• The Black Dog of Newgate

References

1. Bullen 1891, p. 356.
2. Harington 1653, p. 192.
3. Musæum Thoresbyanum, p. 85.
4. Henslowe, Diary, p. 188.
5. Bullen 1891, pp. 356–357.
6. Shrank 2004.

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 [1764].

Attribution:

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bullen, Arthur Henry (1891). "Hutton, Luke" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 356–357.

External links

• Basdeo, Stephen (28 August 2021). "Luke Hutton’s "Black Dogge of Newgate" (1596)". Reynolds's News and Miscellany. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
• "Black Dog of Newgate, Parts 1 and 2". Lost Plays Database. 6 August 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.