Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
such follie, which occasioned his death, by some light heads that were
then about him.[172]
=1541.= xxxiii _year of Henry VIII_. In the beginnyng of this yere, v.
priestes in Yorke shire began a newe rebellion, with thassent of one
Leigh a gentleman, and ix. temporall men, which were apprehended, &
shortly after in diuerse places put in execucion, insomuch that on the
xvii. daie of Maie, the said Leigh & one Tatersall, and Thornton were
drawen through London to Tiborne and there were executed (Hall, p. 841).
=1542.= The 20 of March was one Clement Dyer, a vintner, drawen to
Tyburne for treason, and hanged and quartered (Wriothesley’s Chronicle,
i., p. 135).
=1542.= _December 10._ At this tyme the Quene late before maried to the
kyng called Quene Katheryne, was accused to the Kyng of dissolute liuing,
before her mariage, with Fraunces Diram, and that was not secretely, but
many knewe it. And sithe her Mariage, she was vehemently suspected with
Thomas Culpeper, whiche was brought to her Chamber at Lyncolne, in August
laste, in the Progresse tyme, by the Lady of Rocheforde, and were there
together alone, from a leuen of the Clocke at Nighte, till foure of the
Clocke in the Mornyng, and to hym she gaue a Chayne, and a riche Cap.
Vpon this the kyng remoued to London and she was sent to Sion, and there
kept close, but yet serued as Quene. And for the offence confessed by
Culpeper and Diram, thei were put to death at Tiborne (Hall, p. 842).
Culpeper was headed, his body buried at Saint Sepulchers Church by
Newgate: Derham was quartered &c. (Stow, p. 583).
=1543.= The 8. of May one Lech sometime Baylie of Lowth, who had killed
Somerset one of our heraults of armes at Dunbar in Scotlande, was drawne
to Tyborne and there hanged and quartered. And the 12. of June, Edward
Lech his brother and with him a priest for the same fact, were likewise
executed at Tyborne (Stow, p. 584).
=1544.= The 7. of March, Garmaine Gardner, and Larke parson of Chelsey,
were executed at Tyborne, for denying the kings supremacie, with them was
executed, for other offences, one Singleton. And shortly after, Ashbey
was likewise executed for the supremacie (Stow, p. 586).
Henry VIII. was succeeded by the boy-King Edward VI. in 1547. Two years
later the peasants rose against their oppressors. Here are echoes of the
risings in the West and in Norfolk.
=1549.= Item the xxvii. day of the same monythe [August] was iii. persons
drawyn, hongyd, and qwarterd at Tyborne that came owte of the West
contre (Grey Friars Chronicle, p. 223).
=1550.= The 27. of January, Humfrey Arundell esquire, Thomas Holmes,
Winslowe and Bery Captaines of the rebels in Deuonshire, were hanged and
quartered at Tyborne (Stow, p. 603).
=1550.= The 10. of February one Bel a Suffolke man, was hanged and
quartered at Tyborne, for moouing a new rebellion in Suffolke & Essex
(Stow, p. 604).
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