Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
[123] Chron. Bartholomew Cotton, ed. Luard, pp. 304-6. The passage in
Norman French in the Chronicle is here given as translated by Mr. Riley
in the French Chronicle of London, 1863, p. 295.
[124] Chron. Rishanger, ed. Riley, p. 194.
[125] The authorities for the trial, sentence, and execution of Wallace
are the following:—
Chron. of the Reigns of Edward I. and Edward III., ed. Stubbs, i. 139.
Year Book of Edward III., years 11 and 12, 170-3.
Matthew of Westminster, “Flores Hist.,” ed. Luard, iii. 124.
Chron. Knighton, ed. Lumby i. 404.
Walsingham, “Ypodigma Neustriæ,” ed. Riley, p. 235.
Chron. of William Rishanger, ed. Riley, pp. 225-6.
Maitland Club, Chron. de Lanercost, p. 203; and Documents illustrative of
Sir William Wallace.
[126] Annales Monastici, ed. Luard, iv. 294, 489. The treatment under
Edward I. of “the Celtic fringe” was severe. We see here how Scotch and
Welsh were dealt with. In Ireland, in 1301, it was accounted no offence
to kill “a mere Irishman.”
[127] Matthew of Westminster, “Flores Hist.,” ed. Luard, iii. 134-5.
[128] Chrons. of the Reigns of Edward I. and Edward II., ed. Stubbs, i.
150, 255. Tyburn is not mentioned in either case.
[129] Stow, Annals, ed. Howes, 1615, pp. 229, 230. The editions of Stow’s
Annals quoted throughout are this, and the continuation to 1631.
[130] Several Chronicles mention Tyburn in connection with the execution
of Mortimer: “Drawn from the Tower to the Elms and there hanged with
contumely,” Chron. of the Reigns of Edward I. and Edward II., ed. Stubbs,
i. 352. “Drawn from the Tower of London to the gallows at the Elms, about
a league outside the City of London, and there hanged,” Chron. Avesbury,
ed. Thompson, p. 285. “Hangyd and drawne at Tyburn for tresoun,” Chron.
Grey Friars, ed. Hewett, p. 152. “Hanged at the Elms on the common
thieves’ gallows, where he hung two days,” Chron. Murimuth, ed. Thompson,
p. 62. Murimuth was a canon of St. Paul’s in 1325; he died in 1347. In
another text (Cotton MS. Nero D. x., in the British Museum) quoted in the
Chronicle, it is said: “He was drawn by horses, on the common ox-hide,
from the Tower of London to the Elms of Tybourne and there hanged.”
This last passage is interesting: the expression “the common ox-hide”
indicates that the ox-hide was now regularly used in drawing.
The interesting indictment of Mortimer, in Norman French, is given in
Chron. Knighton, ed. Lumby, i. 454-8.
[131] Chron. Murimuth, ed. Thompson, p. 171.
[132] Chron. Murimuth, ed. Thompson, p. 253; Rymer, “Fœdera,” v. 549-50.
[133] Walsingham, “Hist. Anglic.,” ed. Riley, i. 326; Chron. Angliæ ed.
Thompson, p. 399. Tyburn is not expressly mentioned.
[134] Gregory’s Chronicle, p. 93.
[135] Stow, Annals, 303, 304; Chronicles of London, C. L. Kingsford,
1905, pp. 16, 17; Chron. Knighton, ii. p. 293; Walsingham, Hist. Ang.,
ii. 173-4.
[136] Chrons. of London, Kingsford, 1905, p. 55.
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