Tyburn: The Story of London's Gallows by Robert Bard Page B

Webley, were hanged at ye Miles end. W. Gunter at the Theater, R. Moorton & Hugh Moore at Lincolnes Inne fields, Tho.Acton [Thomas Holford] at Clarkenwell, Tho. Felton & James Clarkson [Claxton] betweene Brainford ( Brentford ) & Hounslow. And on the 30.of August, R. Flower, Ed. Shelley, R. Leigh, R. Martine, I. Roch, & Margaret Ward gentlewoman (which Margaret hadde conveyed a cord to a priest in Bridewell, whereby he let himself downe & escaped) were hanged at Tiborne. 37
    1591 The 10 of December 3 Seminary priests for being in this realm contrary to the statute and 4 others, for relieving them, were executed, two of them, to wit, a Seminary named Ironmonger [Edmund Genings], and Swithen Wels, gentleman, in Grayes Inne field, Blaston [Polydore Plasden] and White, Seminaries, and three other their abbettors at Tyborne (Stow, p. 764). [The names of these three others were, Bryan Lacy, Sydney Hodson, and John Mason].
    In The Life and Death of Mr Edmund Geninges Priest, Crowned with Martyrdome at London the 10 day of November (sic) in the yeare MDXCI (S. Omers, 1614), is an account of the trial and execution. Wells on returning to London found his house shut up, and was told that his wife was in Newgate. He went to Justice Yonge to ask for restitution of wife and keys, when he was at once sent to Newgate. He pleaded that he was not aware of the doings in his house. ‘Then the Justice … told him in playne termes, he came time inough to taste of the sauce, although he were ignorant how the meate savoured.’ The manner of the execution of Edmund Genings is thus told: ‘he being ripped up, & his bowelles cast into the fire, if credit may be given to hundreds of People standing by, and to the Hangman himselfe, the blessed Martyr uttered (his hart being in the Executioners hand) these words, Sancte Gregori ora pro me, which the Hangman hearing, with open mouth swore this damnable oath; Gods woundes, See his hart is in my hand, and yet Gregory in his mouth; egregious Papist!’
    1593 The 21 of March, Henry Barrow, gentleman, John Greenewood clarke, Daniel Studley girdler, Saxio Billot, gentleman, Robert Bowley, Fishmonger, were indicted of Felony at the sessions hall without Newgate beefore the Major, the two lord Chiefe Justices of both benches, and sundry of the Judges & other commissioners of Oyer and determiner; the sayd Barrow and Greenwood for writing sundry seditious bookes, tending to the slaunder of the Queene and state; Studley, Billot, and Bowley, for publishing and setting foorth the same Bookes, and on the 23 they were all arraygned at Newgate, found guiltie, and had judgement. On the last of March Henry Barrow and John Greenwood were brought to Tyborne in a carre, and there fastened to the Gallowes, but being stayde and returned for the time, they were there hanged on the sixt of Aprill. 38
    1594 The last of February, Rodericke Loppez, a Portingale ( Portuguese ) … professing physicke, was arraygned in the Guild hall of London, found guiltie, and had iudgement as of high treason, for conspiring her Majesties destruction by poison. The 7 of June, Rodericke Loppez, with the other two Portingales … were convayd by water from Westminster to the Bishoppe of Winchesters staires in Southwarke, from thence to the King’s bench, there laid on hurdles, and convayd by the Sheriffes of London over the bridge, up to Leaden hall, and so to Tyborne, & there hanged, cut downe alive, holden downe by strength of men, dismembred, bowelled, headed & quartered, their quarters set on the gates of the cittie (Stow).
    Camden’s account of this affair (greatly abbreviated) is that certain Spaniards prevailed on Roderigo Lopez, a Portuguese Jew, the Queen’s physician, Stephen Ferreira Gama, and Emanuel Loisie, both Portuguese, to poison the Queen. The convictions were obtained on the strength of confessions. ‘How far,’ says Lingard, ‘These confessions made in the Tower, and probably on the rack, are deserving of credit, may be