CHARLES BRAY
Stone Execution names that took place in London.
Prince Edward Island: Charles Bray took this picture of the stone were the following persons below have been known to been executed on this spot: the first execution is of Queen Anne Boleyn took place on 19 May 1536 at 8 o'clock in the morning. It was the first public execution of an English queen.
* Richard, Duke of Gloucester arrested Hastings on a false charge of treason on the 13th June 14831 and had him beheaded without trial [beheading for treason was common for nobility] the same day [some argue 14th or 20th] in the Tower of London. He is buried in St. George Chapel, Windsor, and Berkshire. The death of William Hastings as protector of Edward IV left the throne of England clear for Richard who became Richard III in the same year, yet Richard was to meet his end only two years later at the Battle of Bosworth.
* Margaret Pole born August 14th 1473, Countess of Salisbury, was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence and Isabella Neville. Her father was a brother of both Edward 1V and Richard III. Eventually Henry VIII executed her on May 27 1541 in the Tower of London in continuation of his father's program of eliminating possible contenders for the throne. She refused to acknowledge that she was a traitor. She was not tried. She was small, frail, elderly, and ill. She was dragged to the block, but refused to lay her head on the block. She was forced down. The executioner swung his axe as she struggled. However it made a gash in her shoulder rather than her neck. Then she leapt from the block and ran away pursued by the executioner, with his axe. She was struck eleven times before she died.
• Catherine's greatest crime was her silliness. Raised in the far too permissive household of her grandmother, she was a flirtatious and emotional girl who rarely understood the consequences of her actions. She made the mistake of continuing her girlish indiscretions as queen. Henry was besotted with her, calling her his 'Rose without a Thorn' and showering her with gifts and public affection. Catherine was understandably more attracted to men of her own age, and after just seventeen months of marriage to the king, she was arrested for adultery. The distraught king at first refused to believe the evidence but it was persuasive. Unlike Anne Boleyn, Catherine had betrayed the king. She was beheaded on 13 February 1542, only nineteen or twenty years old.
* The fall of Viscountess Rochford started on the northern progress where Queen Catherine Howard started her affair with Culpeper. Both the Queen and Culpeper said in their confessions that it was the Viscountess who had encouraged the pair to become lovers. No one knows why she did this but it is believed that her death was mainly political. She was a reminder of Anne Boleyn and a negative past. Jane, Viscountess Rochford, was beheaded in 1542, at the scaffold site minutes after Catherine Howard and in the words of Antonia Fraser
* Lady Jane Grey was queen for nine days and one of the most famous political pawns of history. She was the grand daughter of Henry VIII sister Mary. She was forced to marry Lord Guildford after her father's machinations to marry her to Edward VI failed. When Edward VI died, Jane was proclaimed queen in order to keep a Protestant on the throne of England and stop Henry VIII Catholic daughter Mary seizing power. However, like all of the plans concerning Lady Jane Grey, this failed. Mary seized London and imprisoned Lady Jane in the Tower of London. Jane Grey was executed at the scaffold site on 12 February 1554 - she was only 16 years old and had been queen for nine days.
* Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex born in 1566, was a soldier and courtier inherited his earldom at the age of nine. Good-looking and charming, he exploited Elizabeth I, affection to seek glory and power his military endeavours were showy and expensive: the siege of Rouen (1591), the sack of Cadiz (1596) An abortive attack on Spanish treasure ships in the Azores (1597) lost him a fortune and the good will of the Queen Worse was his expedition to Ireland (1599-1600) where his failure led him to signing a truce with Tyrone this lost him all favour with Elizabeth who placed him under house arrest In 1601 he attempted a coup d'etat, was tried for treason and executed in 1601. See more histories of executions. www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/behead.html
Stone Execution names that took place in London.
Prince Edward Island: Charles Bray took this picture of the stone were the following persons below have been known to been executed on this spot: the first execution is of Queen Anne Boleyn took place on 19 May 1536 at 8 o'clock in the morning. It was the first public execution of an English queen.
* Richard, Duke of Gloucester arrested Hastings on a false charge of treason on the 13th June 14831 and had him beheaded without trial [beheading for treason was common for nobility] the same day [some argue 14th or 20th] in the Tower of London. He is buried in St. George Chapel, Windsor, and Berkshire. The death of William Hastings as protector of Edward IV left the throne of England clear for Richard who became Richard III in the same year, yet Richard was to meet his end only two years later at the Battle of Bosworth.
* Margaret Pole born August 14th 1473, Countess of Salisbury, was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence and Isabella Neville. Her father was a brother of both Edward 1V and Richard III. Eventually Henry VIII executed her on May 27 1541 in the Tower of London in continuation of his father's program of eliminating possible contenders for the throne. She refused to acknowledge that she was a traitor. She was not tried. She was small, frail, elderly, and ill. She was dragged to the block, but refused to lay her head on the block. She was forced down. The executioner swung his axe as she struggled. However it made a gash in her shoulder rather than her neck. Then she leapt from the block and ran away pursued by the executioner, with his axe. She was struck eleven times before she died.
• Catherine's greatest crime was her silliness. Raised in the far too permissive household of her grandmother, she was a flirtatious and emotional girl who rarely understood the consequences of her actions. She made the mistake of continuing her girlish indiscretions as queen. Henry was besotted with her, calling her his 'Rose without a Thorn' and showering her with gifts and public affection. Catherine was understandably more attracted to men of her own age, and after just seventeen months of marriage to the king, she was arrested for adultery. The distraught king at first refused to believe the evidence but it was persuasive. Unlike Anne Boleyn, Catherine had betrayed the king. She was beheaded on 13 February 1542, only nineteen or twenty years old.
* The fall of Viscountess Rochford started on the northern progress where Queen Catherine Howard started her affair with Culpeper. Both the Queen and Culpeper said in their confessions that it was the Viscountess who had encouraged the pair to become lovers. No one knows why she did this but it is believed that her death was mainly political. She was a reminder of Anne Boleyn and a negative past. Jane, Viscountess Rochford, was beheaded in 1542, at the scaffold site minutes after Catherine Howard and in the words of Antonia Fraser
* Lady Jane Grey was queen for nine days and one of the most famous political pawns of history. She was the grand daughter of Henry VIII sister Mary. She was forced to marry Lord Guildford after her father's machinations to marry her to Edward VI failed. When Edward VI died, Jane was proclaimed queen in order to keep a Protestant on the throne of England and stop Henry VIII Catholic daughter Mary seizing power. However, like all of the plans concerning Lady Jane Grey, this failed. Mary seized London and imprisoned Lady Jane in the Tower of London. Jane Grey was executed at the scaffold site on 12 February 1554 - she was only 16 years old and had been queen for nine days.
* Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex born in 1566, was a soldier and courtier inherited his earldom at the age of nine. Good-looking and charming, he exploited Elizabeth I, affection to seek glory and power his military endeavours were showy and expensive: the siege of Rouen (1591), the sack of Cadiz (1596) An abortive attack on Spanish treasure ships in the Azores (1597) lost him a fortune and the good will of the Queen Worse was his expedition to Ireland (1599-1600) where his failure led him to signing a truce with Tyrone this lost him all favour with Elizabeth who placed him under house arrest In 1601 he attempted a coup d'etat, was tried for treason and executed in 1601. See more histories of executions. www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/behead.html