Person    | Male  Died 9/6/1537

Robert Salte

Categories: Execution, Religion

Robert Salte

Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.

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Robert Salte

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Carthusian martyrs

The verse comes from "The Apocrypha: Prayer of Azariah, Chapter 1". We don't...

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James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley

James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley

Army commander. Born Staffordshire.  A commander in the 1st Cornish Rebellion. Captured at the battle on Blackheath on 17 June 1497 and beheaded on Tower Hill.

Person, Armed Forces, Execution

1 memorial
Stratford Martyrs

Stratford Martyrs

The church website has done a very thorough job on the history not just of the memorial but the church and the area so we quote them here on the background to the martyrs: "In 1553 Queen Mary Tudor...

Group, Execution, Religion

1 memorial
125 deaths on Tower Hill

125 deaths on Tower Hill

Wikipedia lists only 36 (in 2011).  Most of the victims that we have researched are recorded as having been beheaded but A London Inheritance, quoting John Stow (c. 1598), refers to "a large scaffo...

Group, Execution, Law

1 memorial
Ensign Madeleine Léonie Zoé Damerment, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre

Ensign Madeleine Léonie Zoé Damerment, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre

From our Picture Source we learn that Madeleine Léonie Zoé Damerment was born on 11 November 1917 at Tortefontaine, Pas-de-Calais, France, the second of the three daughters of Charles Eugène Cyrill...

Person, Espionage, Execution, France, Germany

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
John Derifall

John Derifall

Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.

Person, Execution, Religion

1 memorial