On this date in 1546, one Alice Glaston was hanged in the town of Much Wenlock in Shopshire, England together with two other prisoners.
The court records for that time and place have been lost, so so the crime for which Alice was hanged is not known. We do know one thing about her, though: she was, at eleven years old, the youngest girl to be executed in England’s history. (But not the youngest person. That honor goes to eight-year-old John Dean, who was hanged for arson in Abingdon in 1629.)
In 2014, Paul Evans released a radio play about Alice’s death titled The Spirit Child.
re alice glaston doesn’t anyone want to comment on the execution of an 11 year old girl alice glaston in 1546 she was led in chains to her death the poor girl must have been petrified .she might have deserved a smack on the bum for her whatever she did but to be executed that is barbaric in any language alan
alice glaston was only 11 years old when she was executed by hanging in 1546 her crime one can only guess what a barbaric country England was then read executions of young people in early England it will leave you cold bye alan
re alice glaston doesn’t anyone want to comment on the execution of an 11 year old girl alice glaston in 1546 she was led in chains to her death the poor girl must have been petrified .she might have deserved a smack on the bum for her whatever she did but to be executed that is barbaric in any language alan
alice glaston was only 11 years old when she was executed by hanging in 1546 her crime one can only guess what a barbaric country England was then read executions of young people in early England it will leave you cold bye alan