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	Tyburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		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.
		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.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/t/ty/tyburn.html (291 words)

	location
		As early as 1393 reference is made to the Tyburn Gallows being beneath the parish of Paddington.
		Tyburn meadow, therefore occupied the extreme north - easterly part of Hyde Park, and the Park's boundary was then as it is today.
		This is Tyburn Brook, the researchers say about this brook that - "The deadly Tyburn Tree, or Deadly Never Green derived its name due to its locality to the Tyburn Brook.
	www.tyburnconvent.org.uk /home/location.html (372 words)

	Tyburn was the principal location in London London for public...
		Tyburn gallows gallows, as depicted by William Hogarth William Hogarth in his print, "The Idle 'Prentice executed at Tyburn" (1747 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 brook brook, which since being covered over is now one of the subterranean rivers of London subterranean rivers of London.
		The Tyburn Convent is a Catholic Catholic convent dedicated to the memory of martyrs martyrs executed during the Reformation Reformation.
	www.biodatabase.de /Tyburn (637 words)

	Grays Antique Markets
		From the 13th century, the Tyburn supplied water for London through conduits of elm trunks, which were later changed to leather pipes.
		The earliest written record of the Tyburn was in 785 a.d.
		Brook Street in Mayfair takes its name from the Tyburn, often refered to as the Tyburn Brook from the 15th century.
	www.graysantiques.com /tyburn_river2.php (210 words)

	Brook Street: Introduction \| British History Online
		Brook Street extends westward from Hanover Square to the north-eastern corner of Grosvenor Square.
		In the eighteenth century the street was sometimes referred to as Lower Brook Street to distinguish it from Upper Brook Street, while the eastern extremity, between New Bond Street and Hanover Square (outside the Grosvenor estate), was known as Little Brook Street.
		James Mivart first made his appearance in Brook Street in 1812, and by 1827 he occupied five houses in Brook Street as hotels, the seeds of the enterprise which was to grow into Claridge's.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=42099 (1633 words)

	Tyburn
		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 (an arrangement known as a "three legged mare" or "three legged stool").
		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.
		Also, the bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw were exhumed and hung in chains at Tyburn on the order of Charles II (See also: Posthumous execution).
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/t/ty/tyburn.html (449 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)

	November 7th
		The name is derived from a brook called Tyburn, which flowed down from Hampstead into the Thames, supplying in its way a large pond in the Green Park, and also the celebrated Rosamond's Pond in St. James's Park.
		Those curious documents, called Tyburn Tickets, were certificates conferred under an act passed in the reign of William III, on the prosecutors who had succeeded in obtaining the capital conviction of a criminal.
		The conveyance of the criminals from Newgate to Tyburn by Holborn Hill and the Oxford Road, afforded, by the distance of space traversed, an ample opportunity to all lovers of such sights for obtaining a view of the ghastly procession.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/nov/7.htm (1500 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.
		At Newgate, having been released from their chains, prisoners were put on carts (often sitting on their coffins) with the hangman and, accompanied on all sides by peace officers, constables and javelin men, began their last journey.
		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.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/place-london/A988833 (1025 words)

	Gilded Balloon
		With a history dating back to the 12th century, Tyburn was the hanging gallery of choice for the city's notorious criminals, petty thieves and political prisoners.
		The name, which is derived from a local brook which flowed into the Thames, became synonymous with large-scale public executions right up until 1783.
		Interestingly, the proceedings at Tyburn gave rise to the popular phrase "one for the road" which refers to the practice of allowing a condemned man to have one last drink at any ale house en-route.
	www.gildedballoon.co.uk /history_and_facts_marble_arch.html (339 words)

	Tyburn was the principal location in London for...
		Tyburn was the principal location in London for...
		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. In 1759, the old Triple Tree was removed, and a new movable gallows, set up near the union of Bryanston Street and Edgware Road, superseded it.
		John Austin November 3 1783 - last person executed at Tyburn Also, the bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw were exhumed and hung in chains at Tyburn on the order of Charles II (See also: Posthumous execution).
	www.geodatabase.de /Tyburn (545 words)

	Tyburn - Gurupedia
		Tyburn was the principal location in London for public executions by
		After that date the London executions were removed from Tyburn to Newgate and criminals were hanged in front of the gaol.
		The Tyburn Convent is a Catholic convent dedicated to the memory of martyrs executed during the
	www.gurupedia.com /t/ty/tyburn.htm (470 words)

	Reverend John Greenwood, Martyr
		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.fortunecity.com /marina/mudhouse/2435/id390.htm (6241 words)

	TYBURN - River and source of drinking water
		In St James's Park the Canal was fed with water via an open conduit which carried water from the Tyburn brook, either directly, or through Rosamond's Pond.
		From the 13th century the Tyburn supplied water for London through conduits of elm trunks to various waterpoints.
		From Highgate, the TYBURN flowed down to a waterhead (where Stratford Place, Oxford Street is today) from which it was channelled through three and a half miles of leather pipes to Cheapside.
	www.connect-to-london.com /marylebone/tyburnriver.php (681 words)

	Tyburn Brook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tyburn Brook is a tributary stream to the River Westbourne.
		It does not connect with the River Tyburn.
		This page was last modified 19:31, 4 April 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tyburn_Brook (50 words)

	Destinations UK - Speakers Corner and Tyburn, London, England
		The gallows stood at Tyburn until 1759, when the official place of execution for felons was moved to Newgate Prison.
		The acknowledged first highwayman, Claude Duval, was hanged at Tyburn on 7th April 1669, and he was mourned by a mass of weeping women, who later attended his magnificent funeral.
		The condemned were taken to Tyburn on a cart and had to ride with the hangman and the prison chaplin.
	www.historic-uk.com /DestinationsUK/SpeakersCorner.htm (917 words)

	J. Lyons & Co.
		Tyburn Brook, which flowed nearby, was in a district known as Tynburnia which was almost as aristocratic as Mayfair and Belgravia.
		Alongside the brook were the Tyburn Trees and for generations the trees were used for execution.
		Later a permanent fixture of gallows was erected where for centuries executions continued to be performed, the last taking place in 1783.
	www.kzwp.com /lyons2/cumberland.htm (791 words)

	Brook Street: South Side \| British History Online
		Eventually in 1827 a new lease which included the workshops and timber yard at the corner of Brook's Mews and Avery Row was granted to 1887 at an increased annual rent.
		The inexorable expansion of Mivart's whilst its rivals in Brook Street remained static in size is the best possible indication of the hotel's success.
		The original 59 and 61 Brook Street (formerly 40 and 39) were erected under separate leases granted to Edward Liney, paviour, and William Jackling, bricklayer, in 1723 and 1725 respectively, (ref.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=42101 (8135 words)

	First Editions 1946-1951 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Chosen by her to become her lover, Roger is compelled to move with the utmost care, for if it was known that not only was he spying for two countries but also having an affair with the sadistic and vicious Natalia, he would meet certain death.
		Yet as Roger Brook arrives on a secret and vital mission for Prime Minister Pitt, the smell of blood, of Revolution and the Terror is already in the air.
		This, the second phase of the French Revolution, opened with the storming of the Tuileries in June, 1792, and in the months that followed, the Liberals were mown down by cannon fire, drowned by the thousand, and flung back into the flames of villages burnt to the ground.
	www.denniswheatley.info /firsteditions05.htm (1115 words)

	LondonTown.com \| Tyburn Way Guide \| Tyburn Way London, W1H, England, UK \| London Streets by Street \| London hotel and ...
		Tyburn Way is located in the City of Westminster
		The nearest underground station to Tyburn Way is 'Marble Arch ' which is about 2 minutes to the North East.
		Sandwiched between Sainsbury’s and McDonald’s in Marble Arch, the Bliss Chemist is open till late seven days a week, to satisfy all your pharmaceutical needs.
	www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/tyburn_way_0d3.html (717 words)

	London Journal: Walk in Hyde Park
		The Lido was set up by George Lansbury, the first Commissioner of Works, in 1930 and in warm weather is used for sunbathing and swimming.
		The Description of Tyburn by John Taylor (the Water-Poet) I have heard sundry men oft times dispute Of trees, that in one year will twice bear fruit.
		The Idle 'Prentice executed at Tyburn by William Hogarth (1747) The condemned were taken to Tyburn on a cart and had to ride with the hangman and the prison chaplin.
	realtravel.com /london-journals-j656387.html (1465 words)

	The Muse of the Monarchy
		It’s geographic location at the northeast corner of the park was defined by Tyburn Road (now Oxford Street) and Tyburn Lane (now Park Lane) which took their names after a brook that ran nearby - the Tye Bourne.
		In 1571 a gallows eighteen feet in height, built in a triangular shape replaced the tree as an executioner that could hang 24 at once – eight on each of its three sides.
		January 1661 his exhumed body was executed posthumously with his corpse dangling in a cage at Tyburn as a warning to those who might wish to depose the monarchy.
	www.etoile.co.uk /Muse/010323.html (1387 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Tyburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The novel is based on the real career of a notorious thief and informer, hanged at Tyburn in 1725.
		Founded upon the life of a notorious thief, informer and receiver of stolen goods who was hanged at Tyburn in 1725.
		An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Tyburn (1091 words)

	The Shadow Of The Tyburn Tree (Roger Brook) by Dennis Wheatley
		The Shadow Of The Tyburn Tree (Roger Brook) by Dennis Wheatley
		The Shadow of Tyburn Tree tells the story of Roger Brook-Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent-who, in 1788, is sent on a secret mission to the Russia of that beautiful and licentious woman Catherine the Great.
		The story moves to Denmark and the tragedy of Queen Matilda, to Sweden and the amazing ride of King Gustavus to save Gothenborg, and finally back to England where Roger returns to the arms of his one great love, Georgina.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /w/dennis-wheatley/shadow-of-tyburn-tree.htm (187 words)

	Motors in Tyburn - UpMyStreet
		UpMyStreet’s FindMyNearest…™ is the quick and easy way to find Motors in Tyburn.
		Select a listing and UpMyStreet will list your nearest Motors businesses and services.
		It is free to use and meets the Energywatch and Ofcom codes of practice.
	upmystreet.com /UK/findmynearest/motors/.../west-midlands/Tyburn.html (159 words)

	Newspad -- The Website for Paddington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Westbourne Terrace, once described as the finest street in London, takes its name from the river Westbourne.
		The river rose in West Hampstead and was fed by five streams which joined near Kilburn, crossed Maida Vale and then to Paddington before flowing into Hyde Park where it was joined by the Tyburn Brook.
		In 1730 at the suggestion of Queen Caroline of Anspach, consort of George II, the Westbourne valley in Hyde Park was dammed up to form the Serpentine.
	www.newspad.co.uk /go/InsideW2/history/westbourneterrace.htm (196 words)

	REGENT'S PARK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This view of the canal through Regent's Park is looking westwards (i.e.
		towards Little Venice) from one of the footbridges, which is also a covered aqueduct carrying the Tyburn Brook over the canal.
		The gardens in the background beyond the towpath are those of Grove Lodge, one of the original villas built in the park, and the first building to be designed by the famous architect Decimus Burton.
	www.mike-stevens.co.uk /metrocuts/regents/park.htm (81 words)

	Tug Photos - Presstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		1950 / 67gt - ex Pressman-72, Tyburn Brook-63
		Seen lying in Hull on 10th August 2002
		All images on these pages are copyright and may not be reproduced without permission.
	www.tugphotos.co.uk /pages/presstan.htm (38 words)

	Dennis Wheatley – Roger Brook series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Roger Brook series of novels in chronological order of plot:
		Title (click on title to return to 1st editions)
		‘The Launching Of Roger Brook’ and ‘The Shadow Of Tyburn Tree’
	www.denniswheatley.info /rogerbrook.htm (99 words)

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