Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
He being ripped vp, & his bowelles cast into the fire, if credit may be
giuen to hundreds of People standing by, and to the Hangman himselfe, the
blessed Martyr vttered (his hart being in the Executioners hand) these
words, _Sancte Gregori ora pro me_, which the Hangman hearing, with open
mouth swore this damnable oath; Gods woundes, See his hart is in my hand,
and yet _Gregory_ in his mouth; ô egregious Papist!
[Illustration: DRAWING ON HURDLES TO TYBURN, _temp._ ELIZABETH.]
=1592.= _January 22._ William Patenson, condemned as a priest, drawn,
hanged, and quartered at Tyburn. (Challoner’s Memoirs pt. i. p. 147).
_June 23._ Roger Ashton executed at Tyburn for procuring from Rome a
dispensation to enable him to marry his cousin (Challoner’s Memoirs, pt.
i. p. 148).
=1593.= The 21. of March, Henry Barrow, gentleman, Iohn Greenewood
clarke, Daniel Studley girdler, Saxio Billot, gentleman, Robert Bowley,
Fishmonger, were indicted of Felony at the sessions hall without Newgate
beefore the Maior, the two lord Chiefe Justices of both benches, and
sundry of the Judges & other commissioners of Oyer and determiner; the
sayd Barrow and Greenwood for writing sundry seditious bookes, tending to
the slaunder of the Queene and state; Studley, Billot, and Bowley, for
publishing and setting foorth the same Bookes, and on the 23. they were
all arraygned at Newgate, found guiltie, and had iudgement. On the last
of March Henry Barrow and Iohn Greenwood were brought to Tyborne in a
carre, and there fastened to the Gallowes, but being stayde and returned
for the time, they were there hanged on the sixt of Aprill (Stow, p.
764-5).
=1594.= The 18. of February, [William] Harington, a seminarie priest,
was drawne from Newgate to Tyborne, & there hanged, cut downe aliue,
struggled with the hang-man, but was bowelled & quartered (Stow, p. 766).
=1594.= The last of February, Rodericke Loppez, a Portingale (as it was
said) professing physicke, was arraygned in the Guild hall of London,
found guiltie, and had iudgement as of high treason, for conspiring her
Maiesties destruction by poyson.
The 7. of June, Rodericke Loppez, with the other two Portingales … were
conuayd by water from Westminster to the Bishoppe of Winchesters staires
in Southwarke, from thence to the K. bench, there laid on hurdles, and
conuayd by the Sheriffes of London ouer the bridge, vp to Leaden hall,
and so to Tyborne, & there hanged, cut downe aliue, holden downe by
strength of men, dismembred, bowelled, headed & quartered, their quarters
set on the gates of the cittie (Stow, p. 766, 768).
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