SexViolHist Bib: Cases: Real Cases: Rape of Anne Bond

»Colonel Francis Charteris (baptised 4 April 1675 – 24 February 1732), nicknamed "The Rape-Master General", was a Scottish soldier and adventurer who earned a substantial sum of money through gambling and the South Sea Bubble. He was also a serial rapist who was convicted of raping a servant in 1730 and sentenced to death, but subsequently pardoned, before dying of natural causes shortly afterwards.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 18^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

1. Primary Sources

I. Author Index

[Info] Chartres, Francis. The tryal of Colonel Francis Chartres, for a rape committed by him on the body of Mrs. Anne Bond, his servant-maid. London 1730.

[Info] Unknown Authorship. The proceedings at the Sessions of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, for the City of London, and County of Middlesex, held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Friday the 27th of February last, before the Right Honourable Sir Richard Brocas, Knt. Lord Mayor of the City of London; the Honourable Mr. Justice Price, Mr. Justice Probyn, and Mr. Baron Thomson, upon a bill of indictment found against Francis Charteris, Esq; for committing a rape on the body of Anne Bond, of which he was found guilty. London 1730.

[Info] Unknown Authorship. Scotch gallantry display’d. Or the life and adventures of the unparallel’d Col. Fr-nc-s Ch-rt-s, impartially related. With some remarks on other writings on this subject. London 1730.

[Info] Unknown Authorship. Some authentick memoirs of the life of Colonel Ch-------------s, rape-master-general of Great Britain. By an impartial hand. London 1730.

2. Secondary Sources

I. Author Index

[Info] Simpson, Antony E. »Popular perceptions of rape as a capital crime in eighteenth-century England. The press and the trial of Francis Charteris in the Old Bailey, February 1730.« Law and history review 22 (2004): 27-70.

[Info] Spampinato, Erin A., et al. »Between Men: Towards a Theory of Eighteenth-Century Rape Culture.« Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 49 (2026): 205-224.

[Info] Wagner, Peter. »The pornographer in the courtroom: trial reports about cases of sexual crimes and delinquencies as a genre of eighteenth-century erotica.« Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Edited by Paul-Gabriel Boucé. Manchester 1982: 120-140.

[Info] Walker, Garthine. »Rape, Acquittal and Culpability in Popular Crime Reports in England, c.1670-c.1750.« Past & Present 220 (2013): 115-142.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Ryer, Jennifer. »The Rape-Master General: Sex, Power, and the Rake in Eighteenth-Century Media.« 46^th Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Macon 2020.