Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals

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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 strayte and rygorous iustice, which at that tyme was there executed vpon fellones, who as he sayde, were for the most part xx hanged together vpon one gallowes.—Sir Thomas More, Utopia , about 1516.
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