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TYBURN , a small See also:

left-See also:bank tributary of the See also:river See also:Thames, See also:England, now having its course entirely within See also:London and below ground. The name, which also occurs as Aye-See also:bourne, is of obscure derivation, though sometimes stated to signify Twy-See also:burn, i.e. (the junction of) two See also:burns or streams. The Tyburn See also:rose at See also:Hampstead and ran See also:south, See also:crossing See also:Regent's See also:Park, striking the See also:head of the See also:modern ornamental See also:water there. Its course is marked by the windings of Marylebone See also:Lane, the See also:dip in Piccadilly where that thoroughfare See also:borders the See also:Green Park and at times by a See also:line of mist across the park itself. It joined the Thames at See also:Westminster (q.v.). But the name is more famous in its application to the See also:Middlesex gallows, also called Tyburn See also:Tree and Deadly Never Green, and also at an See also:early See also:period, the Elms, through confusion with the See also:place of See also:execution of that name at Smithfield. The Tyburn gallows stood not far from the modern See also:Marble See also:Arch. See also:Connaught Square is said by several authorities to have been the exact site, but it appears that so See also:long as the gallows was a permanent structure it stood at the junction of the See also:present Edgware and Bayswater roads. The site, however, may have varied, for Tyburn was a place of execution as early as the end of the 12th See also:century. In 1759, moreover, a movable gallows superseded the permanent erection. On some occasions its two uprights and See also:cross-See also:beam are said to have actually spanned Edgware Road.

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Round the gibbet were erected open galleries, the seats in which were let at high prices. Among those executed here were See also:Perkin See also:Warbeck (1449), the See also:Holy Maid of See also:Kent and confederates (1535), See also:Haughton, last See also:prior to the See also:Charter-See also:house (1535), See also:John See also:Felton, murderer of See also:Villiers, See also:duke of See also:Buckingham (1628), See also:Jack See also:Sheppard (1724), See also:Earl See also:Ferrers (176o). In 1661 the skeletons of See also:Cromwell, See also:Ireton and other regicides were hung upon the gallows. The last execution took place in 1783, the See also:scene being thereafter transferred to Newgate. The Tyburn See also:Ticket was a certificate given to a prosecutor of a felon on conviction, the first assignee of which was exempted by a See also:statute of See also:William III. from all See also:parish and See also:ward duties within the See also:district. The hangman's halter was colloquially known in the 16th century as the Tyburn Tippet. See A. Marks, Tyburn Tree, its See also:History and See also:Annals (London, 1908).

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