Luke Hutton

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.

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'.Harington 1653, p. 192. 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.

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He is the reputed author of:

• Luke Button's Repentance, a manuscript poem dedicated to Henry, Earl of Huntingdon.Musæum Thoresbyanum, p. 85.
• 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.Henslowe, Diary, p. 188.
• After Hutton's execution appeared a broadside ballad, Luke Hutton's Lamentation which he wrote the day before his death [1598].Bullen 1891, pp. 356–357.
• The discovery of a London monster (1638).Shrank 2004.

• The Black Dog of Newgate

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• Fuller, Thomas (1845). The Church History of Britain, ed. J. S. Brewer. [https://books.google.com/books?id=69dsOOze5UYC Vol. 5]. Oxford: At the University Press. p. 356.
• Harington, John (1653). [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=uma45581 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. [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnfd6a&view=1up&seq=530&skin=2021 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). [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/14307 "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].

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• Basdeo, Stephen (28 August 2021). [https://reynolds-news.com/2021/08/28/luke-hutton-black-dog-stephen-basdeo/ "Luke Hutton’s "Black Dogge of Newgate" (1596)"]. Reynolds's News and Miscellany. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
• [https://lostplays.folger.edu/Black_Dog_of_Newgate,_Parts_1_and_2 "Black Dog of Newgate, Parts 1 and 2"]. Lost Plays Database. 6 August 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.

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