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==Executioners== <!-- These are all hangmen in the Tyburn line. The earliest I could find is Cratwell, then Derrick please add any that are missing. There is a gap between Pearse and Price β please fill in if you have references There is uncertainty about some of the dates or they are unknown. Please correct any you can. The last hanging at Tyburn was in 1783. --> * "The hangman of London", Cratwell, {{circa|1534}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Old Bailey and its trials|date=1950}}</ref> β 1 September 1538<ref>''A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559'' Wriothsley</ref><ref>Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals</ref><ref>{{Blockquote| And the Sonday after [[Bartelemew daye]], was one Cratwell, hangman of London, and two persones more hanged at the wrestlying place on the backesyde of [[Clarkenwell]] besyde London}} Hall. Hen. VIII an. 30, cited in ''A New Dictionary of the English Language'', Charles Richardson (1836) William Pickering, London. Vol 1 p. 962, col 1</ref> * [[Thomas Derrick]], {{circa|1608}} * Gregory Brandon, 1625 (or earlier) β ?, after whom the phrase the "Gregorian tree" was coined<ref name="Brewer">Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable</ref> * Robert Brandon β 1649, "Young Gregory" alongside his father at least part of the period<ref name="Brewer" /> * [[Edward Dun]] * [[Jack Ketch]], 1663 β early 1686, reinstated briefly in late 1686 * [[Paskah Rose]], 1686 β 28 May 1686 * Richard Pearse, (?) 1686β? * Unknown or unknowns * [[John Price (executioner)|John Price]], 1714β16 * [[William Marvell]], 1716 β November 1717 * John Price, 1717β18 * William Marvell, (?) 1718 * Bailiff Banks, ?β1719 * Richard Arnet, 1719 β {{circa|1726}} * John Hooper, ? β March 1735 * John Thrift March 1735 β May 1752 * Thomas Turlis, 1754β 6 February 1771<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 February 1771 |title=LONDON |page=2 |work=[[The Stamford Mercury]] |issue=2102 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=9 September 2023}}</ref> * Edward Dennis, 1771 β 21 November 1786
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