542 men and 19 women were executed at Newgate or at the place of their crime (10) between 09/12/1783 and 31/11/1799. Of these 3 women were burned at the stake for coining which was High Treason. (Shown as H/T below.) The average number of executions per annum over this 16 year period is 35. Sessions on 25/10/1783 – 21 men and … Read more
The population of London in 1715 was around 600,000 and slowly rose to reach about 700,000 by 1800. Tyburn was the normal place of execution for those convicted in the City of London and County of Middlesex, and they normally stood trial at the Old Bailey. Over the 69 years from 1715 to December 1783 (when Tyburn ceased to be used as the … Read more
Tyburn’s gallows was the main place of execution for London and Middlesex until 1783. It was also the place where women were burnt for Petty Treason and High Treason and soldiers shot for military offences. In 1571, the famous “Triple Tree” was set up at Tyburn to replace the previous smaller gallows and was, at least once, used … Read more
Armley prison opened in Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1847 and was constructed on the then modern Panopticon principal with four wings radiating from a central tower. It was a grim and forbidding building in line with the Victorian ideas of prison and was responsible for housing prisoners sentenced in the West … Read more
By John Grainger Beaumaris was established from the small village of Llanfaes, an important port on the shore of the eastern entrance to the Menai Strait. The English king, Edward I, also known as Edward Longshanks because of his height, moved the Welsh population from the town a mile to the south at Beaumaris. He added the castle there in 1295 following the Magod ap Llywelyn uprising. Work … Read more
