List of people executed in Smithfield

This is a list of prominent people killed or executed in Smithfield, one of the most important locations for public executions in the medieval and modern City of London.

Traitors

Wat Tyler's death

Charged and convicted of High treason

Edward Arden Esq, Beheaded his head put on London bridge and his body quartered and placed on the city's gates 20 Dec 1583 [1]

Charged with heresy

John Badby's death, burned in a barrel (from John Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 1563)

Others

References

  1. ↑ Chalmers' General Biographical Dictionary

See also

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