From petty theft to highway robbery, Henry Simms built a life of crime and deception. His schemes kept him in the spotlight. This show explores the chaotic life and notorious end at #Tyburn of one of the eighteenth century’s most audacious criminals. #History #Podcast #Crime #Prison #Execution
7 Mar 1544: Bl. John Ireland priest & vicar of Eltham, Bl. Jermyn Gardiner (nephew of Bishop Stephen Gardiner) and Bl. John Larke, Vicar of #Chelsea and friend of Sir Thomas More, all executed #otd at #Tyburn. All were beatified in 1886.
15 Feb 1681: John [Peter] Atwood reprieved by Charles II - he had been one of eleven Dominicans cited by Titus Oates. Atwood's reprieve came, apparently, just as he was about the step onto the hurdle at #Tyburn (BM)
#PopishPlot
30 Jan 1661: Oliver Cromwell's body ritually executed at #Tyburn on the anniversary of Charles I's execution #otd
Cromwell had died 3 Sept 1658.
29 Jan 1661: John Bradshaw’s body exhumed, taken from #Westminster Abbey to #Tyburn #otd - for ritual execution the following day in retribution for his role as regicide & presider at the process that sentenced Charles I to death 12 years & 1 day earlier (NPG)
27 Jan 1693: James Whitney highwayman & #Jacobite reprieved at #Tyburn #otd but then hanged on 1 Feb at #Smithfield bars (eebo)
27 Jan 1693: James Whitney highwayman & #Jacobite reprieved at #Tyburn #otd but then hanged on 1 Feb at #Smithfield bars (eebo)
Elizabeth Johnson was a Tudor widow. In 1591 she was found guilty of clipping silver shillings, taken to Tyburn and hanged. Hear the poor woman’s story in our History of Money podcast: tinyurl.com/vdaufpea #history #tudors #money #tyburn #elizabethanengland
2 Dec 1610: St John Roberts #Benedictine, from Trawsfynydd #Cymru, arrested in vestments while saying Mass for 1st Sunday of #Advent #otd (BM) Hanged, drawn, quartered at #Tyburn 10 Dec
Contemporary drawing depicting Jack Sheppard.
16 November 1724: The notorious thief and gaol-breaker, Jack Sheppard, was hanged at #Tyburn. #History
Account of the execution of John Austin from The Gentleman's Magazine: volume 53, part 2, No. 5, November 1783.
7 November 1783: The highwayman John Austin became the last person to be publicly hanged at Tyburn. #History #London
From December 1783 the site of public executions in London moved from #Tyburn to #Newgate.
25 Oct: feast of St John Roberts of , Trawsfynydd #Benedictine Founder & first Prior of St Gregory’s Douai, he was executed at #Tyburn 10 Dec 1610
18 Oct 1598: St John Roberts of Trawsfynydd, future #Benedictine enters St Alban's #English College Valladolid #otd (BM)
Founder & 1st Prior of St Gregory’s Douai, he was executed at #Tyburn 10 Dec 1610
4 Sept 1583: James Fenn of Montacute, near Yeovil, #Somerset, having been identified as a seminary priest is placed in the Tower of #London #otd Hanged, drawn and quartered at #Tyburn on 12 Feb 1584. His quarters were disposed on 4 gates of the city, & his head on London Bridge
Quiet Grounds: Tyburn Foundation Residencies 2025 Quiet Grounds: Tyburn Foundation Residencies 202517th October, 2025 –22nd October, 2025PIASA, 118 rue du FaubourgSaint-Honoré, Paris At PIASA du...
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Quiet Grounds: Tyburn Foundation Residencies 2025 Quiet Grounds: Tyburn Foundation Residencies 202517th October, 2025 –22nd October, 2025PIASA, 118 rue du FaubourgSaint-Honoré, Paris At PIASA du...
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11 Aug 1577: Having quit #Oxford St. Alexander Briant enters the #English College Douai #otd He was executed with St. Edmund Campion at #Tyburn on 1 Dec 1581 (NPG)
14 July 1679: Bl. Richard Langhorne, barrister, executed at #Tyburn #otd - a victim of the Popish Plot
6 July 1644: Ralph Corbie #Jesuit arrested near Ebchester Co. Durham #otd Executed at #Tyburn on 7 Sept with the priest John Duckett - both were permitted to wear the tonsure & clerical dress on the day
Portrait of Thomas Fiennes wearing a hat, with a goatee beard, and a high lace collar.
#otd 29th June 1541 Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre, aged 26, was hanged at #Tyburn for the murder of John Busbrig, servant of Nicholas Pelham, on whose land he was poaching.
He was buried at St Sepulchre without Newgate Church.
#tudor
#history
#OTD
29th June 1541
Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre was hanged at Tyburn for murdering a servant of Nicholas Pelham
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#ThomasFiennes #9thBaronDacre #Tyburn #KingHenryVIII #Tudors #History
A shot of the plaque marking the spot of London's infamous execution site at Tyburn. Now part of a traffic island close to Marble Arch, the site is also marked by three young oak trees around the plaque. In the centre of a plaque is a cross (an x, rather than a Christian cross) and the words 'The site of thr Tyburn tree'.
Wandering in #London for a few hours, so what better way to pass the time by finding the former execution site at #Tyburn. Catherine Howard's lovers Dereham and Culpeper died here in Dec 1541. The plaque is surrounded by 3 young oak trees.
#HistorySky #Tudor #history #writerslife
9 June 1498: Perkin Warbeck, pretender, escapes from royal custody #otd He was hanged at #Tyburn on 23 Nov 1499. This medal from the British Museum may be associated with his cause
A red brick archway has set into it a stone plaque reading "For the good of the public this fountain is erected near the site of an ancient conduit known as the shepherd's well"
A cobbled (setts) street has an area a few bricks down the length of it that has clearly been disturbed seperately to the rest.
A tarmacked roadway has a darker area through it where more recent work has been done. Either side of it are white lines and next to them question marks.
A wide area of water passing by an archway below a house, which has stairs down towards the water.
#Tyburn - another #hiddenRiver, not as wide as the Fleet, but as full with history. From the Shepherd's well, to several exits into the #Thames, you leave your mark on #London's streets (and confuse diggers!) (7/35)
#LondonRiversWeek #Photography
GENUINE LIFE of JOHN RANN c1774 SIXTEEN STRINGS JACK 1st HIGHWAYMAN EXECUTION
#books #antiquarian #18thcentury #biography #highwayman #robber #executed #Tyburn #rarebooks #bookauction
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25 Apr 1496: A Portuguese investigation reveals Perkin Warbeck, pretender, to be Flemish #otd Hanged at #Tyburn 1499 #otd
This Medal from the BM may be associated with his cause #otd
#OTD
20th April 1534
Elizabeth Barton, known as “the Nun of Kent” was hanged at Tyburn with Father Edward Bocking, Richard Risby and Hugh Rich.
#ElizabethBarton #TheNunofKent #Execution #Tyburn #KingHenryVIII #Tudors #History
