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
- Wat Tyler (1381)
- William Bulmer (1537)
- Ann Bigod (1537)
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)
- William Sawtrey (1401)
- John Badby (1410)
- Thomas Bagley (1431)
- Richard Bayfield (1531)
- John Tewkesbury (1531)
- James Bainham (1532)
- John Frith (1533)
- Andrew Hewet (1533)
- John Lambert (1538)
- John Forrest (1538)
- Two Dutch Anabaptists, a man and a woman (1538)
- William Collins (1540)
- Robert Barnes (1540)
- Thomas Gerrard (1540)
- William Jerome (1540)
- Richard Fetherston (1540)
- Edward Powell (1540)
- Thomas Abel (1540)
- Anne Askew (1546)
- Nicholas Belenian (1546)
- John Adams (1546)
- John Lascelles(1546)
- Joan Bocher (1550)
- John Rogers (1555)
- Thomas Tomkins (1555)
- John Cardmaker (1555)
- John Warne (1555)
- John Bradford (1555)
- John Leaf (1555)
- John Philpot (1555)
- Thomas Whittle (1556)
- Bartholomew Green (1556)
- Thomas Brown (1556)
- John Tudson (1556)
- John Went (1556)
- Isobella Forster (1556)
- Joan Lushford (1556)
- William Tyms, burnt 24 April (1556)
- Robert Drake, burnt 24 April (1556)
- Richard Spurge, burnt 24 April (1556)
- Thomas Spurge, burnt 24 April (1556)
- George Ambrose, burnt 24 April (1556)
- John Cavel, burnt 24 April (1556)
- John Rough (1557)
- Robert Southain (1558)
- Roger Holland (1558)
- Nicholas Horner (1590)
- Bartholomew Legate (1612)
Others
- William Wallace (1305)
References
- ↑ Chalmers' General Biographical Dictionary
See also
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