Skip to content

Executed English women


Source Documents

Record
Events
Title
Source Website
Type
Created
Fold3 iconFold3
ImageOct 12, 2011

Source URLs

URL
Events
Description
Ipswich
English
Marian persecutions
Ipswich Martyrs
Robert Samuel
Mary I
East Bergholt
Norwich
St Albans
Faversham
heretic
tortured
Tower of London
burnt at the stake
Stallingborough
gentry
Lincolnshire
William Askew
Dictionary of National Biography
Protestant
transubstantiation
divorce
1 Corinthians
Stephen Gardiner
Emperor Charles V
Thomas Cranmer
Archbishop of Canterbury
Nicholas Shaxton
Hadleigh
Rowland Taylor
Richard Turner
[3]
Thomas Wriothesley
Richard Rich
Edmund Bonner
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
Catherine Parr
ladies-in-waiting
Anne Parr
Katherine Willoughby
Anne Stanhope
Anne Calthorpe
Martin Bowes
Lord Mayor of London
[4]
Anthony Kingston
rack
Smithfield, London
Catholic nun
prophecies
Henry VIII of England
Anne Boleyn
Pope
visions
Church
Blessed Virgin Mary
pilgrimages
Cardinal
Thomas Wolsey
annulment
Catherine of Aragon
Church of England
English Reformation
mental illness
Thomas Cromwell
treason
Tyburn
Greyfriars Church
Newgate Street
Asenby
North Yorkshire
Thirsk
Thackray Museum
Salem
Massachusetts
witchcraft
Salem witch trials
[5]
Thomas Oliver
Edward Bishop
Abigail Williams
Ann Putnam, Jr.
Mercy Lewis
Mary Walcott
Elizabeth Hubbard
sleep paralysis
Cry innocent
murderer
England
arsenic
love potion
Easter Monday
Oxford Castle
parricide
Anglican
Henley
Anthony Addington
English
Anabaptist
burned at the stake
heresy
Kent
Romney Marsh
Baptists
Anabaptists
low countries
Canterbury
Eythorne Baptist Church
sacrament of the altar
Prebendaries' Plot
celestial flesh
Edward VI
Wordsworth
Anne Askew
Tyndale
New Testament
/
?
b
l
n
[2]
[3]
Queen of England
second wife
Marquess of Pembroke
Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
Lady Elizabeth Howard
Netherlands
France
maid of honour
Claude of France
Irish
James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond
Henry Percy
5th Earl of Northumberland
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
Mary
annul
Pope Clement VII
Catholic Church
Marquesate of Pembroke
excommunication
Elizabeth I of England
Jane Seymour
high treason
adultery
incest
John Foxe
[6]
artistic and cultural works
queen consort
by courtesy
Henry VIII
lady-in-waiting
Catherine Howard
executed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grace,_Lady_Parker_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg
Hans Holbein
Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley
Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso
Norfolk
[1]
The Field of the Cloth of Gold
Mary Boleyn
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
King Henry VIII
Grimston Manor
courtesy title
Beaulieu Palace
Princess Elizabeth, future Elizabeth I of England
Alison Weir
foetus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anne_boleyn.jpg
Thomas Wyatt the Younger
Julia Fox
Cromwell
Tower Hill
Protestant
a musician
Earl of Wiltshire
Earl of Ormond (Ireland)
courtesy
George Boleyn, Dean of Lichfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HowardCatherine02.jpeg
father-in-law
Anne of Cleves
Queen Catherine
Thomas Culpeper
Syon Abbey
misprision of treason
death penalty
Tudor England
aristocrat
[22]
Act of Attainder
[23]
[24]
George Boleyn
Ashton-under-Lyne
Strangeways Prison
Manchester
Bolton
Lancashire
strychnine
£
life insurance
epilepsy
Manchester Assizes
gallows
Strangeways Prison
working class
plumber
Fetter Lane
midwife
Foundling Hospital
Thomas Coram
vocational education
apprenticeships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Brownrigg_flogging_a_servant.JPG
Newgate Calendar
whipping
switches
bullwhip
coal hole
Old Bailey
The Newgate Calendar
Georgian
Victorian
ca.
Saffron Walden
Essex
[1]
Cambridge
Trinity College
colic
inquest
placenta
Concealment of Birth of Bastards Act 1623
anatomized
Englishwoman
journeyman
Dover
Maidstone
bigamy
Cologne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Carleton_(n%C3%A9e_Moders)_(%27The_German_Princess_with_her_Suppos%27d_Husband_and_Lawyer%27
James Basire
Divorce
scandal
ghostwriter
heiress
matchmaker
Charge(s)
Conviction(s)
penal transportation
Jamaica
Westminster
hanging
Francis Kirkman
k
æ
v
?l
British
spy
Allied
German
Belgium
World War I
Swardeston
Brussels
London Hospital
Eva Luckes
Antoine Depage
East of England
Red Cross
Foreign Office
citation needed
Lord Robert Cecil
United States
Hugh S. Gibson
Philippe Baucq
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Cavell#cite_note-Hughes-9
Holy Communion
Lutheran
Brand Whitlock
Marquis de Villalobar
[6]
Schaerbeek
Westminster Abbey
[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Empire_Union_WWI_poster.jpg
American Journal of Nursing
Lusitania
Wellington House
Arthur Zimmermann
propaganda
martyr
Christian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edith_Cavell_monument.JPG
Norwich Cathedral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EdithCavellmemorial.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schaerbeek_Rue_Colonel_Bourg_Enclos_des_fusill%C3%A9s_02.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monument_Cavell-Depage_Bxl.JPG
Marie Depage
state funeral
Queen Alexandra
Trafalgar Square
Peterborough Cathedral
[20]
Peterborough
The Shrine
Melbourne, Australia
municipality
Salford, Greater Manchester
Paul Du Bois
R. Tait McKenzie
saint
Roman Catholic Church
[2]
York
chandler
Reims
Roman priest
Shambles
St Wilfrid's
Roman Catholic
Diocese of Middlesbrough
assizes
priests
crushed to death
Good Friday
Elizabeth I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MC-photo.jpg
Ouse Bridge
Bishop of Middlesbrough
beatified
Pope Pius XI
canonised
Pope Paul VI
Wales
Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
feast day
Nottingham
Bestwood
Cincinnati, Ohio
Loveland
Catholic Women's League
piety
church
paranoia
village
exonerated
judge
hysterical
mimicking
jury
hanged
Giles Corey
allegations
trial
executed
pressing
Arthur Miller
The Crucible
1957
1996
Mary Pat Gleason
Low Moorsley
County Durham
Houghton-le-Spring
City of Sunderland
West Rainton
Murton
South Hetton
colliery
Newcastle Upon Tyne
register office
Plymouth, Devon
gastric fever
British and Prudential Insurance
Seaham Harbour
Monkwearmouth
shipwright
Pallion
Sunderland
St Michael's, Bishopwearmouth
£
Walbottle
Northumberland
who?
bigamously
St Andrew's, Newcastle Upon Tyne
West Auckland
smallpox
workhouse
arrowroot
John Duke Coleridge
Charles Russell
Adelaide Bartlett
Florence Maybrick
The Times
clemency
Home Secretary
William Calcraft
black pudding
Woodbridge, Suffolk
protestant
Grundisburgh
Melton
Bury St Edmunds
Clement Heigham
Speaker of the House of Commons
Agnes Potten and Joan Trunchfield
Mary
Jezebel
Rebecca Nurse
Sarah Cloyce
Great Yarmouth
America
Isaac Eastey
Topsfield
John Hathorne
Jonathan Corwin
[1]
[2]
More Wonders of the Invisible World
Martha Corey
Ann Pudeator
Mary Parker
Wilmot Redd
[2]
Henry VII
Mary
Edward VI
Lord Guildford Dudley
John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland
Elizabeth
Third Succession Act
Privy Council
Wyatt's rebellion
humanist
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Lady Frances Brandon
Bradgate Park
Leicestershire
Mary Tudor, Queen of France
Henry VIII
Lady Catherine Grey
Lady Mary Grey
Latin
Greek
Hebrew
John Aylmer
Michelangelo Florio
Zürich
Heinrich Bullinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jane_Grey_engraving_van_der_Passe_with_caption.gif
Roger Ascham
Plato
[11]
Thomas Seymour
Lord Protector
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
King Edward
attainder
Lord Hertford
Guilford Dudley
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
[16]
Durham House
Catherine
Earl of Pembroke
Lord Herbert
Catherine
Henry Hastings
Earl of Huntingdon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_VI%27s_%27devise_for_the_succession%27.png
letters patent
[18]
autograph
[19]
[20]
Margaret Tudor
Scots
parliament
writs
Duke of Clarence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lady_Jane_Grey_letter_as_Queen.JPG
power
Hunsdon
East Anglia
Guildhall
City of London
Sir Thomas White
Lord Mayor of London
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby
John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath
traditional English punishment
imperial
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Thomas Wyatt the younger
Philip II of Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Delaroche_-_The_Execution_of_Lady_Jane_Grey.jpg
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Paul Delaroche
Tower Green
Raphael Holinshed
Psalm 51
John Feckenham
Luke
St Peter ad Vincula
chamberlain
Adrian Stokes
Birmingham
Marylebone
St Margaret's, Westminster
petty treason
burnt alive
Newgate Prison
Marylebone Fields
London Journal
Arden of Feversham
William Makepeace Thackeray
Catherine
Fraser's Magazine
wife
[1]
Wingate, County Durham
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oatlands Palace
Surrey
Lord Edmund Howard
Joyce Culpeper
Elizabeth Howard
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
aristocratic
primogeniture
Calais
[2]
Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
Chesworth House
Horsham
Norfolk House
Lambeth
Francis Dereham
Ireland
precontract
Duke of Norfolk
German
Howard family
Catholicism
pregnant
succession
Edward
ulcer
Lady Rochford
northern progress
John Lascelles
Mary Hall
Hampton Court
ghost
exiled
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Catherine_Howard.svg
Middlesex
Tyburn
hanged, drawn, and quartered
London Bridge
life imprisonment
Parliament
bill of attainder
scaffold
soul
St. Peter ad Vincula
Queen Victoria's
Francis I of France
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch
University of Oxford
Lacey Baldwin Smith
Joanna Denny
Alison Weir's
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
David Starkey's
Six Wives
Lady Antonia Fraser
Karen Lindsey
David Loades
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CatherineHoward.png
Hans Holbein the Younger
portrait miniature
Royal Collection
Duke of Buccleuch
NPG 1119
National Portrait Gallery
Elizabeth Seymour
Margaret Douglas
Mary, Queen of Scots
Bridgnorth
Shropshire
Leytonstone
Joseph Jeffryes
[1]
Petty treason
prostitute
London
UK
Prime Minister
Robert Walpole
hang
shillings
guinea
equivalent
testimony
Newgate
Historian
Peter Linebaugh
bias
courts
class
police
cunning woman
midwife
[1]
familiars
St Osyth
Chelmsford
Alice Newman
cradle
lame
cat
lamb
toad
beer
earthenware
ritual
hog's
dung
sage
St John's wort
cattle
skeletons
Alison Rowlands
Hampshire
Monmouth Rebellion
Battle of Sedgemoor
Ellingham
Steeple
Dorset
Thomas Tipping
Wheatfield
Stoke Talmage
Oxfordshire
John Lisle
Charles I
Cromwell's House of Lords
Royalism
edit
Nonconformist
Ringwood
Monmouth
edit
Judge Jeffreys
Bloody Assizes
burned
edit
James II
beheading
William and Mary
Glorious Revolution
Richard North
Salisbury, Massachusetts
Chester A. Arthur
William Sargent Jr.
Salem Village, Massachusetts
Bible
Cotton Mather
hanged
[2]
John Greenleaf Whittier
burning
Great Britain
Newgate prison
coining
William Brunskill
Benjamin Hammett
Sheriff of London
Treason Act 1790
née
Salem Village
Danvers, Massachusetts
Mary Easty
Constable
Ann Putnam
Rebecca Nurse Homestead
Hathorne)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RebeccaNurseHouse.jpg
Jack the Ripper
Kentish Town
Hampstead
perambulator
Finchley
F. Tennyson Jesse
Melville Macnaghten
Madame Tussauds
Black Museum
[4]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
[5]
Canada
murder
William Keen
justice of the peace
St. John's
Newfoundland
burglary
scythe
musket
[3]
edit
serial killers
baby farmers
lying-in
East Finchley
[1]
lying in
chlorodyne
morphine
Islington
Holloway
Henry Pierrepoint
Albert Pierrepoint
Hampreston
Clapham
Louise Masset
Dalston Junction railway station
unmarked graves
Ruth Ellis
Styllou Christofi
Edith Thompson
Brookwood Cemetery
51°18′13.67″N 0°37′33.33″W
peeress
George of Clarence
King Edward IV
King Richard III
Plantagenet dynasty
Wars of the Roses
Elizabeth's
Pope Leo XIII
Farleigh Hungerford Castle
Somerset
1st Duke of Clarence
Isabella Neville
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and of Salisbury
Anne Beauchamp
Earldom of Warwick
Battle of Barnet
Edward
attainted
Richard III of England
Sheriff Hutton Castle
Henry VII of England
Battle of Bosworth
St Paul's Cathedral
Lambert Simnel
Sir Richard Pole
Lady Margaret Beaufort
Perkin Warbeck
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York
Arthur, Prince of Wales
Reginald Pole
[6]
new learning
Gentian Hervet
Erasmus
Henry Pole
Baron Montagu
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
Roger Lewknor
Ursula
Geoffrey Pole
Edmund Pakenham
Lordington
Duchy of Somerset
Lady Mary
Eustace Chapuys
Pope Paul III
Pilgrimage of Grace
embargo
Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter
Augustine of Canterbury
executioner
Anne Neville
abeyance
J. H. Round
Complete Peerage
Sir Thomas Overbury
A New Trick to Cheat the Devil
The Widow
The World Tossed at Tennis
The City Nightcap
Hinxton
Cambridgeshire
apothecary
astrologer
Simon Forman
physician
Sir Arthur Mainwaring
Frances Howard
Robert Carr
Earl of Essex
Staffordshire
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton
Paternoster Row
Hammersmith
saffron
cantharides
mercury
Lieutenant of the Tower
Gervase Helwys
1613
Sir Edward Coke
Lord Chief Justice
Attorney General
Sir Francis Bacon
whore
bawd
sorcerer
witch
papist
felon
murderer
United Kingdom
Burton-on-Trent
cancer
fraud
Military Medal
cousins
coma
death certificate
cardiovascular
cremated
cremations
Medical Officer for Health
State Registered Nurse
[4]
post-mortem
grains
stomach
liver
kidneys
exhumation
Home Office
Rayner Goddard
Norman Birkett
Winson Green Prison
Thomas Pierrepoint
breastfeeding
suicide
Catholic
priest
Congleton
Cheshire
Fr. William Watson
Bridewell Prison
John Roche
Edward Shelley
Richard Martin
Richard Flower
John Roche
canonized
Shrewsbury
Birmingham
Leeds
Margaret Clitherow
Anne Line
Stoke-on-Trent
Robbie Williams
familiar
treasurer
constable
George Herrick
Deliverance Hobbs
Salem, Massachusetts
baby farmer
Barnes
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
Thames
Battersea
Amelia Dyer
Fisherman's knot
Newgate
Sunderland
Cardiff
[1]
nurse
poisoned
wills
Spalding, Lincolnshire
Kirkby
Cumbria
colchicum
autopsy
sulphuric acid
attempted murder
acquitted
Mr Baron Bramwell
Montagu Williams
Q.C.
summing-up
Mr Justice Byles
gout
Alfred Swaine Taylor
Newgate Gaol
Daniel Good
Central Criminal Court
Harper's Weekly
vice
reasonable doubt