*Ø* Blogmanac | The Tyburn Tree

1686 Jonathan Simpson, English highwayman, was executed on England’s infamous Tyburn Tree. On most Mondays an estimated 10,000 people used to attend the executions at Tyburn. If it happened to be a notorious case, numbers could be as high as 50,000. Of the 1,232 people hanged at Tyburn between 1703 and 1792, only 92 were women. It has been estimated that 90 per cent of all those executed were males below the age of 21. Among the famous figures who died at Tyburn was poet Robert Southwell (b. 1561) in 1595.

Boswell's Visit to Tyburn and Newgate