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Tower Hill

hill and neighbourhood in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

6 dated entries naming Tower Hill, drawn from 6 separate years between 1521 CE and 1747 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1521May 17 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason in Tower Hill.source
  • 1553November 13 – Lady Jane Grey, who had claimed the title of Queen of England for nine days, is convicted of high treason, along with her husband Lord Guilford Dudley, two of Dudley's brothers, and Thomas Cranmer, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, after trial conducted by a special commission at Guildhall in the City of London. Referred to by the court as "Jane Dudley, wife of Guildford", Lady Jane is found to have treacherously assumed the title and the power of the monarch of England, as evidenced by a number of documents she had signed as "Jane the Quene". All five defendants are sentenced to death. Beheading is the sentence for the men, while Lady Jane is to either be "burned alive on Tower Hill or beheaded as the Queen pleases", with the decision (for a private decapitation) to be made by Queen Mary.source

17th century

  • 1601February 25 – The Earl of Essex becomes the first of the Essex's Rebellion participants to be executed. He is beheaded at Tower Hill. His co-conspirator, the Earl of Southampton, sentenced to death, but Queen Elizabeth commutes his penalty to life imprisonment; Southampton will be released two years later.source
  • 1645January 10 – Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud is executed for treason on Tower Hill, London.source
  • 1685July 15 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, is executed at Tower Hill, London, England.source

18th century

  • 1747April 9 – The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat is beheaded at Tower Hill, London, for high treason. He was the last person in Britain to be beheaded, although beheading would not be formally abolished until more than 200 years later.source

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