LONDON EXECUTIONS
THE LAST HEAD Trinity Square Gardens, Tower Hill, enclose a brick pavement marking the spot where public executions were carried out up till the year 1747. A slab of granite bears the following inscription: “Site of ancient scaffold. Here the Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerino suffered, 18th August, 1746.” They were beheaded, as was also Lord Lovat in April following. On this occasion a scaffolding built to accommodate several hundred spectators. collapsed, hurling them to the ground, and history assures us that Lovat, in spite of his awful situation, “seemed to enjoy the downfall of so many Whigs.” He was the last person in England to be beheaded, his “crime” being participation in the Jacobite rebellion of 1743.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 16, 9 April 1927, Page 10
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121LONDON EXECUTIONS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 16, 9 April 1927, Page 10
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