Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals

The work offers a detailed historical survey of public executions at a notorious London gallows, using legal records, contemporary accounts, maps, and illustrations to trace the site’s origin, layout, and chronological annals. It examines the procedures and instruments of capital punishment — drawing, hanging, quartering, torture, and the peine forte et dure — alongside the role of the hangman, penal law, and courtroom practice. Case entries and documentary extracts illustrate public reactions and the gradual mitigation of severity through legal and humanitarian reformers, while appendices and plates supply visual and chronological context.