Qualla: Tyburn https://qualla.com/tyburn en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/tyburn-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tyburn https://qualla.com/tyburn Tyburn: Introduction https://qualla.com/tyburn/ Photo credit Megalit, CC BY-SA 4.0. The shoppers crossing from Selfridges toward Marble Arch tube station walk past a small traffic island most do not notice. Three young oak trees grow on it. Between them lies a small bronze roundel set into the pavement, with an inscription: "The site of Tyburn Tree." The roundel marks the place where, between 1196 and 1783, somewhere around 50,000 people were hanged in front of crowds that sometimes reached the tens of thousands. They were Catholic priests killed for their faith. They were highwaymen and pickpockets. They were Cromwell's exhumed corpse, dragged from Westminster Abbey to be hanged again. They were ordinary people, and they deserve to be remembered as people - not as the carnival the crowds came for.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/tyburn-wp/gcpv-tyburn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tyburn: The Boundary Stream https://qualla.com/tyburn/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Tyburn began as a manor and a small river. The Tyburn Brook ran from springs near today's Hampstead down through what is now Marylebone (named for the parish's church of St Mary - Mary on the Bourne, Marybourne, with the French "le" added in the 17th century). The name Tyburn its...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/tyburn-wp/gcpv-tyburn-the-boundary-stream.mp3 0:06 2 full Tyburn: The Triple Tree https://qualla.com/tyburn/ Photo credit Rabanus Flavus, CC0. In 1571 a new permanent gallows was erected near today's Marble Arch, 200 metres to the west. It was a triangular wooden frame supported by three legs - what people called a "Triple Tree" or a "three-legged mare." Multiple people could be hanged from it at once. On 23 June 1649, ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/tyburn-wp/gcpv-tyburn-the-triple-tree.mp3 0:06 3 full Tyburn: The Procession https://qualla.com/tyburn/ Photo credit Public domain. The condemned came from Newgate Prison, about three miles east in the City. They travelled in an open horse-drawn cart, sometimes seated on their own coffin, hands tied. The journey could take three hours through streets jammed with onlookers. The cart usually stopped at the Bowl...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/tyburn-wp/gcpv-tyburn-the-procession.mp3 0:06 4 full Tyburn: The Spectacle https://qualla.com/tyburn/ Photo credit Giovanni Cavallieri after Niccolò Circignani, Public domain. Wealthy spectators paid to sit in temporary wooden grandstands erected for each execution. On at least one occasion the stands collapsed, reportedly killing and injuring hundreds of people who had come to watch others die. William Hogarth captured the scene in his 1747 print The ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/tyburn-wp/gcpv-tyburn-the-spectacle.mp3 0:06 5 full Tyburn: The Last Hanging and What Remains https://qualla.com/tyburn/ Photo credit John Rocque (c. 1704-1762), Public domain. On 19 April 1779, clergyman James Hackman was hanged at Tyburn for the 7 April murder of Martha Ray, a courtesan and singer who was the mistress of John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Hackman had been obsessed with her; she had refused him; he shot her outside Covent Garden a...

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