Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
Thomas Eberalle wente to masse, and that lokyer aftyr hys confessyon
myght see that blessyd sacrament welle i-nowe, and thenne rejoysyd and
was gladde, and made an opyn confessyon by fore the iiij sayde docters of
devynyte. And I truste that hyr soulys ben savyd.[144]
=1468.= That yere were meny men a pechyd of treson, bothe of the cytte
and of othyr townys. Of the cytte Thomas Coke, knyght and aldyrman, and
John Plummer, knyght and aldyrman, but the kyng gave hem bothe pardon.
And a man of the Lorde Wenlockys, John Haukyns was hys name, was hangyd
at Tyburne and be heddyd for treson.[145]
=1495.= The 22. of Februarie were arraigned in Guildhall at London foure
persons, to witte, Thomas Bagnall, Iohn Scot, Ihon Hethe, and Iohn
Kenington, the which were Sanctuarie men of Saint Martin le grand in
London, and lately before taken thence, for forging seditious libels, to
the slander of the King, and some of his Councell: for the which three
of them were adiudged to die, & the fourth named Bagnall, pleaded to be
restored to sanctuary: by reason whereof he was repriued to the Tower
till the next terme, and on the 26 of February the other three with a
Flemming, and Robert Bikley a yeoman of the Crown were all fiue executed
at Tyborne (Stow, ed. Howes, p. 479).
=1483.= _December 4._ Four yeomen of the Crown were drawn from Southwark
to Tyburn, and “there were hanged all” (Chronicle of London, Kingsford,
1905, p. 192).
=1495.= In this year Perkin Warbeck, a pretender, “A yoongman, of visage
beautifull, of countenance demure, of wit subtil,” made a descent on the
English coasts:—But Perken would not set one foote out of his Shippe,
till he sawe all thinges sure; yet he permitted some of his Souldiours to
goe on lande, which being trained forth a prettie way from their Shippes,
and seeing they coulde haue no comfort of the Countrey, they withdrew
againe to their Shippes: at which withdrawing, the Maior of Sandwich,
with certaine commons of the Countrey, bikered with the residue that
were vppon lande, and tooke aliue of them 169. persons, among the which
were fiue Captaines Mountfort, Corbet, White Belt, Quintin & Genine. And
on the twelfth of Julie, Syr Iohn Pechy, Sheriffe of Kent, bought vnto
London bridge those 169. persons, where the Sheriffes of London, Nicholas
Alwine and Iohn Warner receiued and conueied them, railed in robes like
horses in a cart, vnto the tower of London, and to Newgate, and shortlie
after to the number of 150. were hanged about the sea coasts in Kent,
Essex, Sussex, and Norffolke; the residue were executed at Tiborne and at
Wapping in the Whose besides London; and Perken fled into Flanders (Stow,
ed. Howes, p. 479).
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