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== Notable executions == <!--Note to editors: sorted chronologically, earliest first--> {| class=wikitable !width=250px| Name !!width=130| Date !! Cause |- | [[William Fitz Osbert]] ||align=right| 1196 || Citizen of London executed for his role in a popular uprising of the poor in the spring of 1196.<ref>''Historia rerum anglicarum'', [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/williamofnewburgh-five.html#20 Book 5 Ch. 20]</ref> |- | [[Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March|Roger Mortimer,<br /> 1st Earl of March]] ||align=right| 29 November 1330 || Accused of assuming royal power; hanged without trial.<ref>Ian Mortimer ''The Greatest Traitor'' (2003)</ref> |- |Sir [[Thomas Browne (died 1460)|Thomas Browne]], MP, Sheriff of Kent |align=right|20 July 1460 |Convicted of treason and immediately hanged. Had been knighted by [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]] and served as [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] between 1440 and 1450 and as [[Justice of the peace]] in [[Surrey]] from 1454 until his death. |- | Sir [[Humphrey Stafford (died 1486)|Humphrey Stafford]] of [[Grafton, Worcestershire|Grafton]]||align=right| 8 July 1486 || Accused of siding with [[Richard III of England|Richard III]]; hanged without trial on orders of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]]. |- | [[Michael An Gof]] and [[Thomas Flamank]] ||align=right| 27 June 1497<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/famous-cornish-people/michael-an-gof.htm|title=Michael An Gof, the Cornish Blacksmith|website=cornwall-calling.co.uk|access-date=18 March 2018}}</ref> || Leaders of the 1st [[Cornish Rebellion of 1497]]. |- | [[Perkin Warbeck]] ||align=right| 23 November 1499 || [[Treason]]; [[pretender]] to the throne of Henry VII of England by passing himself off as Richard IV, the younger of the two [[Princes in the Tower]]. Leader of the 2nd [[Cornish Rebellion of 1497]].<ref>Ann Wroe ''Perkin: A Story of Deception.'', Vintage: 2004 ({{ISBN|0-09-944996-X}})</ref> |- | [[Elizabeth Barton]]<br /> <small>"The Holy Maid of Kent"</small> ||align=right| 20 April 1534 || [[Treason]]; a nun who unwisely prophesied that King [[Henry VIII]] would die within six months if he married [[Anne Boleyn]].<ref>Alan Neame: ''The Holy Maid of Kent: The Life of Elizabeth Barton: 1506β1534'' (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1971) {{ISBN|0-340-02574-3}}</ref> |- | [[Saint John Houghton|John Houghton]] ||align=right| 4 May 1535 || [[Prior (ecclesiastical)|Prior]] of the [[London Charterhouse|Charterhouse]] who refused to swear the oath condoning King [[Henry VIII]]'s divorce of [[Catherine of Aragon]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08465a.htm|title=Blessed John Houghton|encyclopedia=[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]| access-date=31 May 2007}}</ref> |- |[[Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare]] ||align=right| 3 February 1537 || Rebel who renounced his allegiance to Henry VIII. On 3 February 1537, the Earl, after being imprisoned for sixteen months, along with five of his uncles, were all executed as traitors at Tyburn, by being hanged, drawn and quartered. The Irish Government, not satisfied with the arrest of the Earl, had written to [[Thomas Cromwell]] and it was determined that the five uncles (James, Oliver, Richard, John and Walter) should be arrested also.<ref>"The Earls of Kildare and their Ancestors." by the Marquis of Kildare, 3rd edition 1858</ref> The sole male representative to the Kildare Geraldines was then smuggled to safety by his tutor at the age of twelve. [[Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare]] (1525β1585), also known as the "Wizard Earl". |- |[[Francis Bigod|Sir Francis Bigod]] ||align=right| 2 June 1537 || Leader of [[Bigod's Rebellion]]. Between June and August 1537, the rebellion's ringleaders and many participants were executed at Tyburn, Tower Hill and many other locations. They included Sir John Bigod, [[Thomas Percy, knight|Sir Thomas Percy]], Sir Henry Percy, Sir John Bulmer,<ref>Emerson, Kathy Lynn [http://www.kateemersonhistoricals.com/TudorWomenSo-Sy.htm A Who's Who of Tudor Women] (2011) gives Bulmer's death date as 25 August 1537</ref> Sir Stephan Hamilton, Sir Nicholas Tempast, Sir William Lumley, Sir Edward Neville, Sir [[Robert Constable]], the abbots of Barlings, Sawley, Fountains and Jervaulx Abbeys, and the prior of Bridlington. In all, 216 were put to death in various places; lords and knights, half a dozen abbots, 38 monks, and 16 parish priests.<ref>[http://www.geni.com/people/SIr-Thomas-Percy/6000000006444687803 Thomas Percy, Sir Knight] at geni.com (citing as source Adams, Arthur, and Howard Horace Angerville. ''Living Descendants of Blood Royal'' London: World Nobility and Peerage, 1959. Vol. 4, p. 417.</ref> |- |[[Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre]] ||align=right| 29 June 1541 || Lord Dacre was convicted of murder after being involved in the death of a gamekeeper whilst taking part in a poaching expedition on the lands of Sir Nicholas Pelham of [[Laughton, East Sussex|Laughton]].<ref>Luke MacMahon, ''Fiennes, Thomas, ninth Baron Dacre'', [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9414] accessed 30 May 2007</ref> |- | [[Francis Dereham]] and [[Thomas Culpeper|Sir Thomas Culpeper]] ||align=right| 10 December 1541 || Courtiers of King [[Henry VIII]] who were sexually involved with his fifth wife, Queen [[Catherine Howard]]. Culpeper and Dereham were both sentenced to be '[[hanged, drawn and quartered]]' but Culpeper's sentence was commuted to beheading at Tyburn on account of his previously good relationship with Henry. (Beheading, reserved for nobility, was normally carried out at [[Tower Hill]].) Dereham suffered the full sentence. |- | William Leech of [[Fulletby]] ||align=right| 8 May 1543 || A ringleader of the rebellion called the [[Pilgrimage of Grace]] in 1536, Leech escaped to Scotland. He murdered the [[Somerset Herald]], [[Thomas Trahern (officer of arms)|Thomas Trahern]], at [[Dunbar]] on 25 November 1542, causing an international incident, and was delivered for hanging in London.<ref>''Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland'', vol. 8, 170.</ref> |- | [[Humphrey Arundell]] ||align=right| 27 January 1550 ||rowspan=1| Leader of the Western Rebellion in 1549 β sometimes known as the [[Prayer Book Rebellion]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/HumphreyArundell.htm|title=Humphrey Arundell of Helland|work=Tudor Place| access-date=31 May 2007}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|certain=y|self published website; and Jorge H. Castelli is not an expert|date=January 2015}} |- | [[Saint Edmund Campion]]<ref>[[Evelyn Waugh]]'s biography, ''Edmund Campion'' (1935)</ref> ||align=right rowspan=3| 1 December 1581 ||rowspan=6| [[Roman Catholic]] [[priest]]s. |- | [[Ralph Sherwin (priest)|Ralph Sherwin]] |- | [[Alexander Briant]] |- | [[John Adams (Catholic martyr)|John Adams]]<ref>Godfrey Anstruther, ''Seminary Priests'', St Edmund's College, Ware, vol. 1, 1968, pp. 1β2</ref> ||align=right rowspan=3| 8 October 1586 |- | [[Robert Dibdale]]<ref>''ibid'' p. 101</ref> |- | [[John Lowe (martyr)|John Lowe]]<ref>''ibid'' pp. 214β215</ref> |- |[[Brian O'Rourke]] ||align=right| 3 November 1591 || Irish lord, harboured and aided the escape of [[Spanish Armada]] shipwreck survivors in the winter of 1588. Following a short rebellion he fled to [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] in 1591, but became the first man extradited within Britain on allegations of crimes committed in Ireland and was sentenced to death for treason. |- | [[Robert Southwell (jesuit)|Robert Southwell]]<ref>[[Richard Challoner|Bishop Challoner]], ''Memoirs of Missionary Priests and other Catholics of both sexes that have Suffered Death in England on Religious Accounts from 1577 to 1684'' (Manchester, 1803) vol. I, pp. 175ff</ref> ||align=right| 21 February 1595 ||[[Roman Catholic]] [[priest]]. |- | [[John Felton (assassin)|John Felton]] ||align=right| 29 November 1628 || Lieutenant in the English army who murdered [[George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham]], a courtier, statesman, and favorite of [[James VI and I|King James I]]. |- | [[Philip Powel]]||align=right| 30 June 1646 ||rowspan=3| [[Roman Catholic]] [[priest]]s. |- | [[Peter Wright (Jesuit)|Peter Wright]]||align=right| 19 May 1651 |- | [[John Southworth (martyr)|John Southworth]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14165a.htm|title=St. John Southworth|encyclopedia=[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]| access-date=31 May 2007}}</ref> ||align=right| 28 June 1654 |- |[[Daniel Axtell]] |19 October 1660 |Colonel in the [[New Model Army|Parliamentarian army]] and was in charge of security during [[Trial of Charles I|the trial of Charles I]]. For his role in the trial, he was excluded from the [[Indemnity and Oblivion Act|Act of Indemnity and Oblivion]]. After being tried as a regicide, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered. |- | [[Oliver Cromwell]] ||align=right| 30 January 1661 || [[Posthumous execution]] following exhumation of his body from [[Westminster Abbey]]. |- | [[Robert Hubert]] ||align=right| 28 September 1666 || Falsely confessed to starting the [[Great Fire of London]].<ref>[[:File:London-gazette.gif|"The London Gazette"]], 10 September 1666</ref> |- | [[Claude Duval]] ||align=right| 21 January 1670 || [[Highwayman]].<ref>[http://www.stand-and-deliver.org.uk/highwaymen/claude_duval.htm ''Claude Du Vall: The Gallant Highwayman'' Stand and Deliver] accessed 30 May 2007</ref> |- | [[Saint Oliver Plunkett]] ||align=right| 1 July 1681 || [[Primate of All Ireland|Lord Primate of All Ireland]], [[Archbishop of Armagh (Roman Catholic)|Lord Archbishop of Armagh]] and [[martyr]].<ref>''Blessed Oliver Plunkett: Historical Studies'', Gill, Dublin (1937)</ref> |- |[[Jane Voss]] ||align=right| 19 December 1684 || Robbing on the highway, high treason, murder, and felony. |- | [[William Chaloner]] ||align=right| 23 March 1699 || Notorious coiner and counterfeiter, convicted of high treason partly on evidence gathered by [[Isaac Newton]]. |- | [[Jack Hall (thief)|Jack Hall]] ||align=right| 1707 || A chimney-sweep, hanged for committing a burglary. There is a folk-song about him, which bears his name (now better known by the name [[Sam Hall (song)|Sam Hall]]). |- | [[Henry Oxburgh]] ||align=right| 14 May 1716 || One of the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] leaders of the [[Jacobite rising of 1715|1715 Rebellion]]. |- | [[Jack Sheppard]]<br /> <small>"Gentleman Jack"</small> ||align=right| 16 November 1724 || Notorious thief<ref name=Moore>Moore, Lucy. ''The Thieves' Opera.'' Viking (1997) {{ISBN|0-670-87215-6}}</ref> and multiple escapee. |- | [[Jonathan Wild]] ||align=right| 24 May 1725 || [[Organized crime]] lord.<ref name=Moore/> |- | [[Arthur Gray (Hawkhurst Gang)|Arthur Gray]] ||align=right| 11 May 1748 ||One of the leaders of the notorious [[Hawkhurst Gang]], a criminal organisation involved in smuggling throughout southeast England from 1735 until 1749.<ref>Old Bailey Proceedings Online 1674β1913. [https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/OA17480511 Execution of Arthur Gray. Ordinary's Account, 11 May 1748. Reference Number: OA17480511 Version 6.0 ] Retrieved 15 December 2018</ref> |- | [[James MacLaine]]<br /> <small>"The Gentleman Highwayman"</small> ||align=right| 3 October 1750 || [[Highwayman]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stand-and-deliver.org.uk/highwaymen/newgate_maclaine.htm |title=James Maclane |work=The Newgate Calendar |access-date=31 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819071802/http://www.stand-and-deliver.org.uk/highwaymen/newgate_maclaine.htm |archive-date=19 August 2007}}</ref> |- | [[Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers]] ||align=right| 1 May 1760 || The last peer to be hanged for murder.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng355.htm|title=Laurence Shirley, Earl Ferrers |work=The Newgate Calendar| access-date=31 May 2007}}</ref> |- | [[Elizabeth Brownrigg]]||align=right| 13 September 1767|| Murdered Mary Clifford, a domestic servant.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/OA17670914?text=brownrigg|title=Ordinary's Account, 14th September 1767. |website=The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674β1913|date=September 1767 |access-date=2012-10-13}}</ref> |- | [[John Rann]]<br /> <small>"Sixteen String Jack"</small> ||align=right| 30 November 1774 || [[Highwayman]]. |- | Rev. [[James Hackman]] ||align=right| 19 April 1779 || Hanged for the murder of [[Martha Ray]], mistress of [[John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng355.htm|title=James Hackman |work=The Newgate Calendar| access-date=31 May 2007}}</ref> |- | [[John Austin (highwayman)|John Austin]] ||align=right| 3 November 1783 || A [[highwayman]], the last person to be executed at Tyburn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.londonancestor.com/street/str-173.htm|title=Account of the Trial and Execution of John Austin|work=London Ancestor| access-date=31 May 2007}}</ref> |}
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