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London in the Time of the Tudors

Chapter 43: APPENDIX X EXECUTIONS
By Walter Besant
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A comprehensive survey of the city during the Tudor era, tracing political and religious change through sketches of successive sovereigns and accounts of the Dissolution, Reformation, and martyrdoms. The narrative reconstructs Elizabethan streets, institutions, and civic life using contemporary evidence and maps, and examines municipal government, trade, and notable literary and artistic figures. Detailed chapters describe everyday practices — manners, food, dress, apprenticeships, inns, theatres, soldiers, poverty, crime, and punishment — while appendices and illustrations supply documentary and topographical support to evoke the city’s social and cultural fabric.

APPENDIX X
EXECUTIONS

The following is a list of executions which took place in the thirty years ending 1586. It shows the various crimes which were then considered capital:—

  • 1563. A soldier executed at Newhaven for drawing his weapon without orders.
  • 1563. A sergeant and soldier executed for drawing their weapons against their captain.
  • 1569. Philip Mestrell a Frenchman, and two Englishmen, hanged for counterfeiting money.
  • 1569. Sixty rebels executed at Durham.
  • 1569. A ’prentice hanged for murdering his master.
  • 1569. Five rebels executed at York.
  • 1570. Thomas and Christopher Norton executed for treason.
  • 1570. John Throckmorton and five others executed for treason.
  • 1570. John Felton hanged for nailing the Pope’s Bull to the Bishop of London’s Palace.
  • 1570. Two young men hanged for debasing coin.
  • 1570. Dr. John Storie hanged for high treason.
  • 1571. Rebecca Chamber burnt for poisoning her husband.
  • 1572. Barneie, Mather, and Rolfe, hanged for treason.
  • 1572. Martin Bullocke hanged for robbery and murder.
  • 1572. Duke of Norfolk beheaded for treason.
  • 1573. Percy, Earl of Northumberland, beheaded as a conspirator.
  • 1573. John Hall and Oswald Wilkinson hanged for treason.
  • 1573. A man hanged for murder.
  • 1573. George Browne hanged for murder.
  • 1573. Anne Sanders, Anne Drurie, and trustie Roger hanged as accessories to murder.
  • 1573. Anthonie Browne hanged for felony.
  • 1574. Peter Burchet hanged for murder.
  • 1575. Two Dutch Anabaptists burnt at Smithfield.
  • 1575. Twenty-two pirates executed.
  • 1575. Thomas Greene, goldsmith, hanged for clipping coin.
  • 1576. A woman burnt at Tunbridge for poisoning her husband.
  • 1576. A man hanged at Maidstone as an accessory to poisoning.
  • 1577. Cuthbert Maine hanged as a Romanist.
  • 1577. John Nelson and Thomas Sherewood hanged for denying the Queen’s supremacy.
  • 1577. John de Loy and five Englishmen executed at Norwich for counterfeiting coin.
  • 1577. Seven pirates hanged at Wapping.
  • 1577. An Irishman hanged on Mile End Green for murder.
  • 1580. A man named Glover hanged for murder.
  • 1580. Richard Dod hanged for murder.
  • 1580. William Randall hanged for conjuring.
  • 1581. A man hanged at St. Thomas Waterings for begging by a licence signed by the Queen’s own hand counterfeited.
  • 1581. Edward Hance a seminary priest hanged.
  • 1581. Edmund Campion, Ralfe Sherwin, Alexander Briars, hanged for high treason.
  • 1581. John Paine executed at Chelmsford for high treason.
  • 1581. Thomas Foord, John Shert, Robert Johnson, priests, hanged for designs against Elizabeth.
  • 1582. Laurence Richardson and Thomas Catcham executed for Romanism.
  • 1582. Philip Prise hanged in Fleet Street for killing a Sheriff.
  • 1583. Thomas Worth and Alice Shepheard hanged in Shoolane for killing a ’prentice.
  • 1583. Elias Shackar hanged at Bury St. Edmunds for spreading seditious literature.
  • 1583. Ten priests hanged.
  • 1583. John Lewes burnt at Norwich for heresy.
  • 1583. John Slade and John Bodie hanged for high treason.
  • 1583. Ten horsedealers hanged at Smithfield for robbery.
  • 1583. Edward Arden hanged for treason.
  • 1583. William Carter hanged for high treason.
  • 1584. Francis Throckemorton hanged for treason.
  • 1584. William Parrie hanged for treason.
  • 1585. Thomas Awfeld and Thomas Weblie hanged for publishing seditious matter.
  • 1586. Two seminary priests hanged at Tyburn.
  • 1586. A witch burnt at Smithfield.
  • 1586. A woman executed at Tyburn for adultery.
  • 1586. Two priests hanged at Tyburn for treason.
  • 1586. Jone Cason hanged for witchcraft.
  • 1586. A man named Foule hanged for robbing his wife.
  • 1586. Henry Elks hanged for counterfeiting the Queen’s signature.
  • 1586. Seven persons condemned for treason.
  • 1586. John Ballard, a priest, executed for conspiring with Anthony Babington against Elizabeth. With him were executed John Savage, Barnewell, Tichborne, Tilneie, Edward Abingdon, Anthony Babington.
  • 1586. Thomas Salisbury executed for treason. With him suffered Henry Dun, Edward Jones, Charnocke, Robert Gage, Jerom Bellamie.
  • 1586. Three seminary priests hanged at Tyburn.
  • 1563–1586—76 Executed for high treason.
  • 71 Rebels.
  • 17 Murder.
  •   3 Military offences.
  • 12 Counterfeiting and clipping coin.
  •   2 Counterfeiting Queen’s signature.
  • 29 Pirates.
  •   2 Witchcraft and conjuring.
  •   3 Heresy.
  • 12 Robbery.
  •   1 Adultery.