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	Tyburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tyburn was a former village in the county of Middlesex which now forms part of London's City of Westminster.
		Tyburn had significance from ancient times and was marked by a monument known as Oswulf's Stone, which gave its name to the Ossulston Hundred of Middlesex.
		Tyburn was commonly invoked in euphemisms for capital punishment – for instance, "to take a ride to Tyburn" was to go to one's hanging, "Lord of the Manor of Tyburn" was the public hangman, "dancing the Tyburn jig" was the act of being hanged, and so on.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tyburn (998 words)

	Tyburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tyburn was the principal location in London for public executions by hanging.
		Tyburn got its name from the Tyburn brook, which since being covered over is now one of the subterranean rivers of London.
		The Tyburn Convent is a Catholic convent dedicated to the memory of martyrs executed during the Reformation.
	wikipedia.lotsofinformation.com /wiki/index.php/Tyburn (707 words)

	Tyburn -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tyburn had significance from ancient times and was marked by a monument known as Oswulf's Stone, which gave its name to the Ossulston (Ten 10s) Hundred of (Click link for more info and facts about Middlesex) Middlesex.
		The Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin, a (A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it) highwayman, was hanged.
		It is also commemorated by the Tyburn Convent, a Catholic convent dedicated to the memory of martyrs executed during the (Improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs) Reformation.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Ty/Tyburn.htm (925 words)

	Tyburn, London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "Tree" was a novel form of gallows, constituting a horizontal wooden triangle supported by three legs (an arrangement known as a "three legged mare" or "three legged stool").
		The first victim of the "Tyburn Tree" was Dr. John Story, a Catholic who refused to recognize Elizabeth I.
		Tyburn was commonly invoked in euphemisms for capital punishment – for instance, "to take a ride to Tyburn" was to go to one's hanging, "Lord of the Manor of Tyburn" was the public hangman, "dancing the Tyburn jig" was the act of being hanged, and so on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tyburn,_London (1020 words)

	Tyburn and the Origins of Speakers Corner
		The real importance of Tyburn as far as Speakers' Corner is concerned can be related to the dramatic increase in people hanged during the eighteenth-century, the majority of whom belonged to the propertyless and the oppressed.
		However because Tyburn was constituted through a number of contradictory belief systems (state belief systems, legal belief systems, criminal belief systems, etc.), the space for the hangings was never going to be one of utter obedience.
		Hibbert, Christopher (1957) The Road to Tyburn: The Story of Jack Sheppard and the Eighteenth-Century Underworld, London: Longmans, Green and Co. Linebaugh, Peter (1991) The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, London: Penguin.
	www.speakerscorner.net /docs/origins.html (2658 words)

	Tyburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tyburn was the principal location in London for Capital punishmentpublic executions by hanging.
		The first recording of a hanging taking place at Tyburn was in 1388 at the execution of Sir Nicholas Brembre, former Lord Mayor of London (1383-1385) and adviser to the monarchking/.
		Tyburn got its name from the Tyburn (stream)Tyburn stream and Tyburn Brook, which since being covered over is now one of the subterranean rivers of London.
	www.infothis.com /find/Tyburn (720 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Tyburn: London's Fatal Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tyburn is synonymous with the idea of execution - over 50,000 people died there between the 12th century and 1783.
		Among those who met their end at Tyburn were William Wallace, the Scottish patriot, Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be one of the Princes in the Tower and the hated Jonathan Wild, perhaps London's first master criminal.
		An attempt is made to pin-point the exact site of Tyburn’s fatal tree and this is followed by descriptions of events there during the early years, the turbulent 16th and 17th centuries and the 18th century until executions were transferred to Newgate.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0750929715 (820 words)

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		Executions at the permanent gallows at Tyburn, west of the city, were an enormously popular tourist attraction and created an instant celebrity of the condemned.
		In the right background can be seen the triple tree of Tyburn; each of its three horizontal beams could hang eight men at once.
		Considering the popularity of the Tyburn spectacle and its cultural importance to Londoners, it is little wonder that Shakespeare makes a reference to hanging (literally or by the popular oath "go hang!") in almost all of his plays.
	www.unc.edu /~charliem/tyburn.htm (596 words)

	About Tyburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tyburn Academy is a private, Independent high school in the Catholic tradition, chartered by the New York Sate Board of Regents.
		Tyburn Academy is named to honor over 100 English and Irish martyrs who gave their lives at Tyburn crossroads, just outside Hyde Park, London, from the years 1535 to 1681.
		Tyburn Academy students learn that there is a time for fun, as well as a time for work.
	www.tyburnacademy.com /ABOUT/PAGES/about.htm (592 words)

	Tyburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tyburn gallows, as depicted by William Hogarth in his print, The Idle 'Prentice executed at Tyburn (1747), was a triangle in plan, having three legs to stand upon.
		It was fixed in the open space at the end of Edgware Road, formed by the junction of the roads near where the Marble Arch now stands.
		The Tyburn Brook is one of the subterranean rivers of London and rises near to Tyburn before flowing into the Serpentine in Hyde Park thus joining the River Westbourne.
	www.theezine.net /t/tyburn.html (228 words)

	Tyburn Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With the line up now complete, Tyburn were back in full force, ready to take their music to those with an appetite for aggressive, yet melodic, mature and thought provoking metal.
		To date Tyburn have played shows with some of South Africa's top bands, including 2 international acts, from clubs to festivals, they have shared the stage with Koos Kombuis, the Awakening, Saron Gas (now Seether), An Pierle (Belgium) and Martin Rocka to name a few.
		Tyburn have been putting in double time in the practice room, ready to deliver their most blistering sets ever.
	www.tyburn.co.za /history2_logos.htm (770 words)

	The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
		The Tyburn lecture is intended as a memorial to the people executed on the gallows known as the Tyburn Tree.
		Tyburn was the place of execution reserved for crimes directed against the body politic (the King’s person/the State), which is to say “treason”.
		Tyburn then is a monument, a memorial to the idolatrous State which sees itself as the regulator of people’s consciences and reserved to itself the power of life and death.
	www.womenpriests.org /body/booth2.asp (5204 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Behind the locked doors of Tyburn
		Those are the only noises at 5.30am, in the white, arching chapel at Tyburn Convent, a cloistered community of contemplative nuns, whose job it is to pray.
		But Tyburn has 24 sisters in the long process of becoming nuns - through 'living in' with the order, postulancy, as a novice, taking first and final vows.
		Tyburn is at the end of a shoppers' paradise, opposite a fine park, in one of the greatest cities.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4727567.stm (1167 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		The plight of the Tyburn nuns has infuriated religious and historical academics who claim that the crypt's legacy is being stifled by "obese bureaucracy".
		Among those executed at Tyburn were St Edmund Campion, the Jesuit and Oxford academic, and Edward Morgan, a Welsh priest who was reproved by a minister on the scaffold for being too cheerful at the prospect of going to heaven.
		The Tyburn convent, home to about 25 nuns, was established in 1901 by Mother Marie-Adele Garnier, a French nun who had founded the order in Paris three years earlier.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/27/nun27.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/27/ixhome.html (1031 words)

	Contemporary Review: Tyburn: London's Fatal Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tyburn, notorious for 600 years as one of London's principal places for public executions is the subject of this study.
		The 'Tyburn tree' was the gallows from which the condemned were hanged and choked to death--the 'drop' which broke the condemned's neck only came at the end of the eighteenth century.
		In addition to criminals many martyrs met their deaths at Tyburn and there is a Catholic chapel nearby which commemorates the sufferings of Catholic victims.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1664_285/ai_n6272959 (289 words)

	Tyburn Tall
		Tyburn Tall was formed in 1969 in Speyer by Werner Gallo (g, born 1951), Hanns Dechant (dr, born 1948), Stefan Kowa (b, born 1950) and Gunther Göttsche (k, born 1954), all of whom made their musical experience playing in the beat band The Screamers since 1965, with the exception of Gunther Göttsche.
		Tyburn Tall planned to explore new musical paths by adding Gunther to their original line-up, thus switching from the 60s beat imitation (a-la the Stones and the Beatles) to their own unique mixture of rock, classical and jazz.
		Tyburn Tall went back to the rehearsal room revising their program towards a sound influenced more by jazz-rock elements than classical patterns and following idols like John Hiseman's Colosseum.
	www.alexgitlin.com /npp/tyburn.htm (821 words)

	Tyburn Convent
		Tyburn Convent is a monastery situated right in the heart of London.
		Tyburn Convent is the Mother House of monasteries world-wide.
		The Foundress, Marie Adele Garnier made Tyburn Convent the home of the famous shrine of the English Reformation Martyrs of Tyburn.
	www.tyburnconvent.org.uk /index2.html (59 words)

	Executions at Tyburn 1735 – 1744 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As a result of the January Sessions, 6 men were sentenced to death of whom 2 were reprieved and 1 died in prison.
		There were 6 hanging days at Tyburn in 1738 with 43 men and 5 women being executed.
		There were 5 hanging days at Tyburn in 1739 with 28 men and 2 women being executed.
	uk.geocities.com /becky62655@btinternet.com/tyburn1735.html (1459 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Tyburn Tree, Hyde Park, London, UK
		Tyburn is now one of London's 'lost rivers' and is completely underground, but many years ago it crossed Regent's Park, followed Marylebone Lane, down to Piccadilly near Green Park, and into the main river near Vauxhall Bridge.
		The Tyburn tree was a huge triangular construction, the three posts were 18 feet high and the crossbeams were nine feet long - capable of hanging 24 (eight on each horizontal beam) prisoners at once.
		Because the procession to Tyburn became more and more unmanageable, in 1783 executions were moved to Newgate prison.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/place-london/A988833 (1023 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of October 25 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Edmund Jennings (Genings, Gennings)-- priest (born at Lichfield, England, in 1567; died at Tyburn 1591) (f.d.
		Henry Morse--Jesuit priest (born at Broome, Suffolk, England, in 1595; died at Tyburn, 1645) (f.d.
		Thomas Garnet--Jesuit priest (born at Southwark, England; died at Tyburn, in 1608) (f.d.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1025.htm (2395 words)

	Tyburn (stream) - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is not to be confused with the Tyburn Brook which is a tributary of the River Westbourne.
		The Tyburn gave its name to the eponymous village of Tyburn, originally a manor of Marylebone which was recorded in the Domesday Book and which stood approximately at the west end of what is now Oxford Street.
		Tyburn gained notoriety as the site of the Tyburn gallows which was the principal place of execution in the county of Middlesex from the 12th to the 18th century, after which they took place at Newgate Prison.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/River_Tyburn (297 words)

	Tyburn Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The gallows was made in the shape of a large tripod, with the noose (called the "Tyburn tippet") suspended from the base of the triangle.
		Upper class members on the way to Tyburn were offered a glass of sherry along the route at the George and Blue Boar, while criminals proceeding from Newgate received a bowl of ale at St. Giles in the Fields.
		William Duell, hanged at Tyburn in 1740, was being prepared for use in an anatomy class by a servant, when the servant detected signs of life and called for a surgeon.
	www.etsu.edu /english/sites/cfox.htm (1226 words)

	MYSTERY!: Heat of the Sun: Episode Descriptions
		Tyburn soon becomes tangled in a web of murder, arson, and a secret love affair, which holds a surprising fate for his sidekick, Clive Lanyard (James Callis).
		Tyburn is called in to investigate the death of a young native girl–and the abduction of another from a Christian mission in Nairobi.
		Tyburn (Trevor Eve) investigates the Watcham coffee plantation–run by Avril (Diana Quick; Brideshead Revisited), Matilda (Deborah Findlay), and brother Theodore (Richard McCabe)–and learns that the plantation deals in more than just coffee beans, leading him to expose a series of surprising relationships, secret identities–and an evil enterprise.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/mystery/programs/heatofthesun/episodes.html (504 words)

	Early Modern Notes: Web Review: Tyburn Tree
		Tyburn Tree is a fine and deservedly popular online resource.
		Tyburn Tree is a remarkably plain and simple site in these high-tech days, which means that it's simple to access and quick to load.
		Charlie Mitchell comments in an interview that he wanted to balance the disproportionate attention paid to the eighteenth century with more information on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the site indeed does this.
	earlymodernweb.blogspot.com /2004/06/web-review-tyburn-tree.html (582 words)

	tyburnconvent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tyburn Field near the present Marble Arch, was a place of public execution for criminals from 1196 to 1783.
		In 1963, the new Church of the Sacred Heart and the English Martyrs was opened at the mother house.
		In the Tyburn Convent the nuns pray day and night for the conversion of England.
	www.newspad.co.uk /Go/archive/tyburnconvent.htm (515 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Heat of the Sun
		When Tyburn is first introduced (in the two-hour "Private Lives"), he comes to Kenya as an exile, dismissed from Scotland Yard for taking the law into his own hands.
		But there's enough amiss to make Tyburn suspicious that her death was no accident, and not for one moment is he fooled by the good breeding of Nairobi's haute monde.
		The motley crew that Tyburn depends on includes a stoic native policeman, corporal Jonah Karinde (Freddie Annobil-Dodoo); a red-headed, sharpshooting assistant superintendent, James Valentine (Julian Rhind-Tutt); and a German-Jewish physician, Dr. Emil Mueller (David Horovitch), all of whom deploy their skills to great and sometimes amazing effect on Tyburn's behalf.
	www.variety.com /article/VE1117490605 (808 words)

	MYSTERY!: Heat of the Sun: Full Series Description
		A pompous bigot, Burkitt disapproves of Tyburn's insistence on the equal treatment of the classes under the law and his humanitarian approach to the locals.
		Tyburn is immediately thrust into an investigation of the disappearance of Lady Daphne Ellesmere (Kate McKenzie).
		In Hide in Plain Sight, Tyburn is called in to investigate the death of one young native girl–and the abduction of another from a Christian mission in Nairobi.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/mystery/programs/heatofthesun/full.html (576 words)

	Tyburn's valedictorian leaves prepared for successes
		In February, Reynolds was one of 10 Tyburn students who traveled to Rome, Italy, visiting both religious and historic landmarks.
		In the spring, Reynolds was one of 20 students from the 24th Congressional District nominated by U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-New Hartford, for appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
		"At Tyburn, he was a gem of a student, and a true leader," Hogan said.
	www.auburnpub.com /articles/2004/07/16/news/news07.txt (310 words)

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