Free Tyburn: The Story of London's Gallows by Robert Bard Page B

mariage, with Fraunces Diram ( Dereham ) and that was not secretely, but many knewe it. And sithe her Mariage, she was vehemently suspected with Thomas Culpeper, whiche was brought to her Chamber at Lyncolne, in August laste, in the Progresse tyme, by the Lady of Rocheforde, and were there together alone, from a leven of the Clocke at Nighte, till foure of the Clocke in the Mornyng, and to hym she gave a Chayne, and a riche Cap. Upon this the kyng removed to London and she was sent to Sion ( Abbey ) and there kept close, but yet served as Quene. And for the offence confessed by Culpeper and Diram, thei were put to death at Tiborne. 24 Culpeper was headed, his body buried at Saint Sepulchers Church by Newgate: Derham was quartered &c. 25
    1544 The 7 of March, Garmaine Gardner, and Larke parson of Chelsey, were executed at Tyborne, for denying the kings supremacie, with them was executed, for other offences, one Singleton. And shortly after, Ashbey was likewise executed for the supremacie. 26
    Henry VIII was succeeded by his only legitimate son, the boy, King Edward VI in 1547. Two years later the peasants rose against their oppressors. Here are echoes of the risings in the West and in Norfolk.
    1549 Item the 27 day of the same monythe [August] was 3 persons drawyn, hangyd, and qwarterd at Tyborne that came owte of the West contrey. 27
    1550 The 27 of January, Humfrey Arundell esquire, Thomas Holmes, Winslowe and Bery Captaines of the rebels in Devonshire, were hanged and quartered at Tyborne. 28
    1550 The 10 of February one Bel a Suffolke man, was hanged and quartered at Tyborne, for mooving a new rebellion in Suffolke & Essex. 29
    The following is from Henry Machyn’s Diary, 1550 to 1563 (Camden Society, 1848). Machyn’s spelling is barely decipherable; it has been amended to keep the sense, and allow some understanding.
    1552 The 2 day of May … the sam day was hangyd at Tyborne 9 fello[ns]
    The 11day of July [was] hangyd one James Ellys, the grett pykkepurs that ever was, and cutt-purs, and 7 more for theyfft, at Tyburne.
    1553 The 21 day of the same monyth [January] rode unto [Tyburn] 2 felons, serten was for kyllyng of a gentylman [of] sir Edward North knyght, in Charturhowsse Cheyr [Churchyard?] the 7 yere of kyng Edward the 6’ (Machyn, p. 30). ‘Rod’ means rode in a cart. Edward died on July 6, 1553. The rebellion in favour of Lady Jane Grey was quickly put down, and Mary made her entry into London on August 3. At the end of January 1554, broke out Sir Thomas Wyatt’s rebellion. It was suppressed, but not till after Wyatt had made his way into the heart of the City. The gallows of Tyburn was supplemented by numerous others: ‘The 18 day of May was drawne a-pon a sled a proper man named Wylliam Thomas from the Towre unto Tyborne … he was clarke to the consell; and he was hangyd, and after his hed stryken of, and then quartered; and the morow after his hed was sett on London bryge, and 3 quarters set over Cripullgate (Machyn, p. 63).
    1555 The tenth of May, William Constable, alias Fetherstone, a Millers sonne about the age of eighteene yeares, who had published King Edw. the 6 to be alive, and sometime named himselfe to bee K. Edw. the 6. was taken at Eltham in Kent, and conveyed to Hampton court, where being examined by the counsell, hee required pardon, & said he wist not what hee did, but as he was perswaded by many; from thence he was sent to the Marshalsea, & the 22 of May he was caried in a cart through London to Westminster with a paper on his head, wherein was written, that he had named himselfe to be king Edw. After he had beene carried about Westminster hall before the Judges, he was whipped a bout the pallace, and through Westminster into Smithfield, and then banished into the North, in which countrie hee was borne, and had beene sometime Lackey to sir Peter Mewtas (Stow, p. 626). But William’s whipping did not cure him of his folly: The 26 of February [1556] Willi. Constable alias Fetherstone was