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Executions conducted at the Tower of London, usually on Tower Green or Tower Hill. Pages in category "Executions at the Tower of London" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total.
Saint Philip Howard was committed to the Tower of London on 25 April 1585. He died alone on Sunday, 19 October 1595. Robert Poley, spy and messenger for the court of Queen Elizabeth I, was imprisoned on the charge of treason. He used his time in the Tower to gather information on his fellow prisoners. He was released a year and a half later.
Posthumous execution alongside Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw was ordered but not carried out [35] 16 Peter Temple: Alive Brought to trial, sentenced to death but sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He died in the Tower of London in 1663 [36] 17 Thomas Harrison: Alive First to be found guilty.
Tower Green is a space within the Tower of London, a royal castle in London, where two English Queens consort and several other British nobles were executed by beheading. It was considered more dignified for nobility to be executed away from spectators, and Queens Anne Boleyn , Catherine Howard , and Lady Jane Grey were among the nobility ...
Tower Hill is the area surrounding the Tower of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is infamous for the public execution of high status prisoners from the late 14th to the mid 18th century. The execution site on the higher ground north-west of the Tower of London moat is now occupied by Trinity Square Gardens.
Executions at the Tower of London (60 P) H. Catherine Howard (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Prisoners in the Tower of London" The following 200 pages are in this ...
The Tower of London is located on the banks of London’s River Thames. Once a royal palace for infamous Tudor King Henry VIII, the fortress has also acted as a prison and played host to 900 years ...
Executed for treason at Tower Hill. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury: 27 May 1541 Executed after being imprisoned in the Tower of London for two years. Sir John Neville: 15 June 1541 Executed for treason for failing to report a planned rebellion. Leonard Grey: 28 July 1541 Lord Deputy of Ireland.