list of people executed in Smithfield
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Smithfield was one of the most important locations for public executions in the medieval and modern City of London. The following people were among those executed there.
William Wallace;
executed at Smithfield Elms on August 23rd 1305.
Was not an Englishman and therefore cannot be listed as a traitor.
Traitors
People charged with and convicted of treason (or high treason):
- Wat Tyler (1381)
- Sir John Bulmer (1537)
- Edward Arden (1583), beheaded; his head put on London Bridge and his body quartered and placed on the city's gatesChalmers' General Biographical Dictionary
Heretics
Image:John Badby death barrel Foxe.jpg's death, burned in a barrel (from John Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 1563)]]
{{See also|List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation}}
People charged with and convicted of heresy:
- William Sawtrey (1401)
- John Badby (1410)
- Thomas Bagley (1431)
- Richard Bayfield (1531)
- John Tewkesbury (1531)
- James Bainham (1532)
- John Frith (1533)
- Andrew Hewet (1533)
- John Lambert (1538)
- John Forrest (1538)
- Two Dutch Anabaptists, a man and a woman (1538)
- William Collins (1540)
- Robert Barnes (1540)
- Thomas Gerrard (1540)
- William Jerome (1540)
- Richard Fetherston (1540)
- Edward Powell (1540)
- Thomas Abel (1540)
- Anne Askew (1546)
- Nicholas Belenian (1546)
- John Adams (1546)
- John Lascelles(1546)
- Joan Bocher (1550)
- John Rogers (1555)
- Thomas Tomkins (1555)
- John Cardmaker (1555)
- John Warne (1555)
- John Bradford (1555)
- John Leaf (1555)
- John Philpot (1555)
- Thomas Whittle (1556)
- Bartholomew Green (1556)
- Thomas Brown (1556)
- John Tudson (1556)
- John Went (1556)
- Isobella Forster (1556)
- Joan Lushford (1556)
- William Tyms, burnt 24 April (1556)
- Robert Drake, burnt 24 April (1556)
- Richard Spurge, burnt 24 April (1556)
- Thomas Spurge, burnt 24 April (1556)
- George Ambrose, burnt 24 April (1556)
- John Cavel, burnt 24 April (1556)
- John Rough (1557)
- Robert Southain (1558)
- Roger Holland (1558)
- Nicholas Horner (1590)
- Bartholomew Legate (1612)