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Anne Boleyn was beheaded at the Tower of London on 19 May 1536 with a French sword rather than the standard English execution axe. Henry VIII had paid for a substantial professional executioner to travel from Calais. The decision was made before the verdict was delivered.
Read the story →The Greyfriars Church at Newgate was the wealthiest Franciscan house in medieval London. It held the tombs of Isabella of France, Joan of the Tower, Eleanor of Provence, and Marguerite of France. The church was demolished in 1547 after the Dissolution; the bones now lie under modern Newgate streets and have never been recovered.
Read the story →The Stone Gate at the southern end of Old London Bridge displayed the severed heads of executed traitors on iron-tipped pikes from approximately 1305 to 1660. William Wallace's head went up first. By the 1660 closure the gate had displayed the heads of several hundred traitors, regicides, and political enemies of the Crown.
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