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Tyburn

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Tyburn

(historical) A village in Middlesex, England where public hangings were carried out until 1783.

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The procession from Newgate to Tyburn used to pass along Broad Street, and halt at the great gate of the hospital, in order that the condemned man might take his last draught of ale on earth. Walter Besant

All three were tried for treason, convicted, and condemned to be drawn to Tyburn and hanged. Source: Internet

As concerns hangings at Tyburn, at the day of the execution, the voyage of the convicts started from Newgate prison; they were all loaded into a horse-drawn open cart and taken to Tyburn. Source: Internet

In the 1230s and 1240s the village of Tyburn was held by Gilbert de Sandford, the son of John de Sandford who had been the Chamberlain of Queen Eleanor. Source: Internet

Instead, others see Tyburn as a 'carnivalesque occasion in which the normative message intended by the authorities is reappropriated and inverted by an irriverent crowd', or even 'a low lived, blackguard merry-making'. Source: Internet

The bodies were exhumed and three were hanged for a day at Tyburn and then beheaded. Source: Internet

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