This yere, the first daye of September, beinge Sondaye, at Clerkenwell, where the wrestlinge is kept, after the wrestlinge was done, there was hanged on a payre of gallowes, newe made, in the same place, the hangman of London and two more for robbinge a bouth in Bartlemewe fayre, which sayd hangman had done execution in London since the Holy Mayde of Kent was hanged, and was a conninge butcher in quarteringe of men.
A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559
On this day..
- 1938: Nikolai Bryukhanov, hung by his balls
- 1662: Claude Le Petit, dirty poet
- 1999: David Leisure, mob war veteran
- 1914: Frédéric Henri Wolff, the first Frenchman executed during World War I
- 1876: Hillary Page, the Chesterfield fire fiend
- 1944: Jacques Stosskopf
- 1916: Kosta Kromphold
- 1942: Henryk Landsberg, Lvov Judenrat
- 1987: Moses Jantjies and Wellington Mielies, after the Langa massacre
- 1863: Peyton Farquhar, in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- 1714: Maria Mouton and her slave Titus, lovers
- 1851: Narciso Lopez, filibuster