Tyburn Tree

[James Kyllo]

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On 9/5/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Tyburn Tree
> Public Execution in Early Modern England
>
> http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/%7Ecmitchell/
>
>   "'You'd appreciate Wapping High Street, then,--
> and, and Tyburn, of course! put that on your list.'
>   "'Alluring out there, is it?'" (M&D, Ch. 3, p. 15)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59738
>
> Tyburn
>
> 8; a village on the Tyburn, a tributary of the Thames,
> where criminals were publicly hung until 1783 when
> executions were moved to Newgate; Tree, 8; Friday's
> hanging, 15;
>
> http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/t.html
>
> Tyburn
>
> From Roy Porter's London: A Social History
>
> http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/info.html#tyburn
>
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