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TYBURN TREE
ITS HISTORY AND ANNALS
GIBBET ON KENNINGTON COMMON, ABOUT 1748.
Tyburn Tree
its
History and Annals
BY
ALFRED MARKS
AUTHOR OF “WHO KILLED SIR EDMUND BERRY GODFREY?”
“HUBERT AND JOHN VAN EYCK: THE QUESTION OF
THEIR COLLABORATION CONSIDERED,”
ETC., ETC.
Who … began diligently and earnestly to prayse that strayteand rygorous iustice, which at that tyme was there executed vponfellones, who as he sayde, were for the most part xx hanged togethervpon one gallowes.—Sir Thomas More, Utopia, about 1516.
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Ther bith therfore mo men hanged in Englande in a yere fforrobbery and manslaughter, then ther be hanged in Ffraunce fforsuch maner of crime in vij yeres.—Chief Justice Fortescue, about 1476.
Je suis persuadé que dans les treize cantons et leurs alliés, on pendmoins de voleurs dans un an, que l’on ne fait à Londres dans uneseule assise.—César de Saussure, Lettres et Voyages, 1725-1729.
Many cart-loads of our fellow-creatures are once in six weekscarried to slaughter.—Henry Fielding, Enquiry, etc., 1751.
The following malefactors were executed at Tyburn … JohnKelly, for robbing Edward Adamson in a public street, of sixpenceand one farthing.—Gentleman’s Magazine, March 7, 1783.
It is frequently said by them [the prisoners in Newgate] that thecrimes of which they have been guilty are as nothing when comparedwith the crimes of Government towards themselves: that they haveonly been thieves, but that their governors have been murderers.—Mrs. ...