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	Tyburn, London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tyburn,_London (1037 words)

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		The later 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 (an arrangement known as a "three legged mare" or "three legged stool").
		Tyburn got its name from the Tyburn stream and 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.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Tyburn (985 words)

	Tyburn (stream) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 century to the 18th century, after which they took place at Newgate Prison.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Tyburn (256 words)

	Read about Tyburn at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Tyburn and learn about Tyburn here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The village was one of two manors of manor of the parish of St Marylebone, which was itself named after the stream,St Marylebone being a contraction of St Mary's church by the bourne.
		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
		The first victim of the "Tyburn Tree" was Dr. John Story, a Catholic agitator who refused to recognize Elizabeth I.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Tyburn (847 words)

	Info and facts on 'Tyburn' (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 Hundred (Ten 10s) of Middlesex (additional info and facts about Middlesex).
		The Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin, a highwayman (A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it), was hanged.
		It is also commemorated by the Tyburn Convent, a Catholic convent dedicated to the memory of martyrs executed during the Reformation (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).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Ty/Tyburn.htm (975 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tyburn (stream)
		Tyburn was a former village in the county of Middlesex Middlesex is an area in England, mostly covered by Greater London.
		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 Middlesex is an area in England, mostly covered by Greater London.
		Tyburn was commonly invoked in euphemisms A euphemism is a word or phrase used in place of a term that originally could not be spoken aloud (see taboo) or, by extension, terms which the speaker considers to be disagreeable or offensive.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tyburn-%28stream%29 (888 words)

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		The Tyburn is a stream (A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth) in London (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center), which runs underground from South Hampstead (additional info and facts about Hampstead) through St.
		It is not to be confused with the Tyburn Brook (additional info and facts about Tyburn Brook) which is a tributary of the River Westbourne (additional info and facts about River Westbourne).
		The gallows were originally situated next to the Tyburn stream but were moved further away in the 16th century (additional info and facts about 16th century) to a site near the modern-day Marble Arch (additional info and facts about Marble Arch).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ty/tyburn_(stream).htm (275 words)

	ST MARYLEBONE - LoveToKnow Article on ST MARYLEBONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		St Marylebone was in the manor of Tyburn, which takes name from the Tyburn, a stream which flowed south to the Thames through the centre of the present borough.
		The name Tyburn (q.v.) was notorious chiefly as applied to the gallows which stood near the existing junction of Edgware Road and Oxford Street (Marble Arch).
		The manor at the Domesday Survey was in the possession of the nunnery at Barking, but the borough includes several estates, such as the manor of Lyllestone in the west, the name of which is preserved in Lisson Grove.
	45.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/ST_MARYLEBONE.htm (1099 words)

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		Tyburn 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.
		Tyburn Hanging Tree and the Origins of Speakers' Corner Speakers' Corner is one of Britain's most famous places for public debate and discussion.
		Tyburn Gallows was the place of execution where so many Martyrs died for their belief.
	tyburn.iqexpand.com /index.php?title=Userlogin&returnto=Tyburn (977 words)

	LONAULI - LoveToKnow Article on LONAULI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The low ground between the slight hills flanking the Thames valley, and therefore mainly south of the present river, was originally occupied by a shallow lagoon of estuarine character, tidal, and interspersed with marshy tracts and certain islets of relatively firm land.
		These and other tributary streams have been covered in and built over (in some cases serving as sewers), but it is possible to trace their valleys at various points by the fall and rise 6f streets crossing them, and their names survive, as will be seen, in various modern applications.
		Continuing westward, the most important stream was Tyburn (q.v.), which rose at Hampstead, and joined the Thames through branches on either side of Thorney Island, on which grew up the great ecclesiastical foundation of St Peter, Westminster, better known as Westminster Abbey.
	87.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LO/LONAULI.htm (18894 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tyburn
		Trailblazers: Danger on the Flying Trapeze, the Runaway's Revenge, the Thieves of Tyburn Square, Quest for the Lost...
		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.
		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.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tyburn (325 words)

	TYBURN - Place of Execution
		The name TYBURN became famous in connection with the Middlesex Gallows, which stood west of the stream near the modern Marble Arch at the north-eastern corner of Hyde Park.
		These 'Hanging Matches' as they were called, were given the flavour of a sporting event, stimulating even the victim to bravado so that he went to his death by strangulation in his best clothes and with a well prepared quip.
		The law permitted those hanged at Tyburn and Newgate to be dissected in the further knowledge of anatomy (under the 1752 Act for authorising dissection), but this was still handicapped by the lack of bodies and this led to a thriving trade in body snatching from graves.
	www.londonis.net /marylebone/tyburnexecution.php (428 words)

	The Magigals Mystery by Maxwell Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tyburn saw Smedley studying the portrait and briefly, Tyburn's gray-mottled eyebrows bristled into a frown.
		Tyburn was talking to somebody named Webster, who from the conversation turned out to be the gate-keeper at the Longwood estate.
		Tyburn says it will take him an hour or more to come into Chicago, as the motor has new pistons and he doesn't want to push it too hard.
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	Tyburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The location was well known, appearing in many cant phrases and folk songs: "Tyburn Tree" being the scaffold; "To dance the Tyburn Jig" meaning to be hanged, etc.
		A quarter of a mile below the path.html">path crossed the little stream when he went to school.html">school.
		He crossed at the old log and turned down the path with Vashti Mills.
	www.explainthat.info /ty/tyburn.html (293 words)

	The lost rivers of London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was quite a large stream with smaller tributaries joining it as it passed through the wall of the City.
		The Tyburn was a small stream with its source at Shepherds Well, South of Hampstead.
		After 1236, when the conduit was built to take water from the Tyburn into the City, only a trickle was left to carry on.
	barryoneoff.co.uk /html/lost_rivers.html (1169 words)

	Chapter Two Eyes of Greece <i>to</i> Tyler of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Tybalt or Tibert, the cat, in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox (1498).
		Tyburn Tree (The), a gallows; so called because criminals were at one time hung on the elm trees which grew on the banks of the Tyburn.
		At one time, elm trees grew on the brook-side, and Roger de Mortimer, the paramour of queen Eleanor, was hung thereon.
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	Tyburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was at the junction between two Roman roads, (now Oxford Street and Edgware Road, near where the Marble Arch now stands), and executions took place...
		The location was well known, appearing in many cant phrases and folk songs: "Tyburn Tree" being the gallows; "To dance the Tyburn Jig" meaning to be hanged, etc. The site had significance from Roman times when Oswulf's Stone was placed there.
		It rises near to Tyburn before flowing into the lake in St. James's ParkSt. James Park.
	www.33beat.com /Tyburn.html (743 words)

	Paddington: Tyburnia \| British History Online
		The Marylebone manor of Lisson lay west of the stream, along Edgware Road, and that of Tyburn to the east.
		Burials of corpses from Tyburn were recorded from 1689 and brought profit to the minister and churchwardens of Paddington in the late 17th and the 18th century, (fn.
		The earliest building between Tyburn and Bayswatering was a chapel, on part of Tyburn field which Sir Thomas Frederick sold in 1763 to the parish of St.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22664 (7389 words)

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		Served by the main road of Tyburn Way (Oxford Street) it was an easy location to reach and on execusion days the area became choked with spectators, all straining to catch a glimps of the noosed victims.
		By the early 15th century the villagers were at the end of their tether and decided to quit St John's and establish themselves about half a mile up stream where they built a new church.
		Development of the northern part of these fields began in the early 1600's to meet the demands of the middle classes who were hell bent on defying the King in owning their own houses.
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	Tyburn . London . Henry VIII of England . 1535 . 1670 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It took its name from the Tyburn stream Tyburn or Ty Bourne stream, a tributary of the River Thames which is now completely covered over between its source and its outfall into the Thames at Vauxhall.
		The village was one of two manors of manor of the parish of Marylebone St Marylebone, which was itself named after the stream, St Marylebone being a contraction of St Mary s church by the bourne.
		January 21 – Highwayman Claude Duval is executed in Tyburn, Middlesex April - Pope Clement X is elected.
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Tyburn (395 words)

	nz_history
		It was a good century later that the Benedictine presence was renewed in New Zealand and Auckland when the Tyburn Nuns set up this centre of monastic spirituality and hospitality in the Auckland Diocese.
		The property has a stream, several fresh water springs and a native bush reserve.
		The nuns have established an orchard, a "monastery garden" for guests and a beautiful bush walk for both visitors and nuns.
	www.tyburnconvent.org.uk /monasteries/newzealand/nz_history.html (131 words)

	AETN Press Release
		Tyburn soon finds that he must battle against criminals and the imperialism of Kenya's hedonistic expatriate community.
		Tyburn arrests newspaper baron and entrepreneur Max Van der Vuurst (Joss Ackland, Lethal Weapon 2) in connection with the murder of a local boy who worked for Van der Vuurst's newspaper.
		Later, Van der Vuurst is found burned to death in his bed, and has to determine whether the two cases are connected.
	www.aetn.org /pressreleases/heatofthesun.shtml (191 words)

	Black Horse, Marylebone
		The local church at Tyburn was continuously being attacked and the desperate parishioners successfully petitioned the Bishop of London to build them a new church half a mile away.
		This new church was called St. Mary's-by-the-Bourne (the River Tyburn was originally called the River Tybourne), which became shortened to Marylebone.
		A bourne is an old word for a stream that only runs in winter.
	www.sunriseag.net /adoptapub/more/0048BlackHorseMarylebone.htm (609 words)

	Tyburn (stream) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Tyburn (stream) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		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.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Tyburn (stream) contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/River_Tyburn (275 words)

	Marylebone - TheBestLinks.com - Arab, Tyburn, Westminster, Soho, ...
		Marylebone, Arab, Tyburn, Westminster, Soho, City of Westminster, Stream...
		Marylebone or Mary-le-bone) is an area in the City of Westminster north of Oxford Street and south of Regents Park.
		Marylebone gets its name from a church, called "St Mary's", that was built on the bank of a small stream or "bourne" called the tybourne, in an area named after the stream Tyburn.
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	Catholic World News : British Martyrs Pilgrimage Could End
		LONDON (CWNews.com) - The annual pilgrimage to Tyburn in central London where more than 100 martyrs were hanged, drawn, and quartered in the 16th and 17th centuries is to be axed following complaints that it disrupts shopping in Oxford Street.
		For the last century, hundreds of pilgrims have followed the two-mile route from the Old Bailey to Marble Arch along which the martyrs were dragged on hurdles or taken by cart to a gruesome death at the gallows.
		Mother John Baptist, a 77-year-old nun at Tyburn convent near the site of the executions, at Marble Arch, said the news had come as "a great blow" to her cloistered community.
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