List of people executed in Smithfield

List of people executed in Smithfield

This is a list of prominent people executed in Smithfield, one of the most important locations for public executions in the medieval and modern City of London.


= Political dissidents =

* William Wallace (1305)
* Wat Tyler (1381)
* William Bulmer (1537)

Heretics

* William Sawtrey (1401)
* John Badby (1410)
* Thomas Bagley (1431)
* Richard Bayfield (1531)
* John Frith (1533)
* John Lambert (1538)
* John Forrest (1538)
* Richard Fetherston (1540)
* Edward Powell (1540)
* Anne Askew (1546)
* Joan Bocher (1550)
* John Bradford (1555)
* John Cardmaker (1555)
* John Philpot (1555)
* John Warne (1555)
* John Rogers (1555)
* John Rough (1557)
* Robert Southam (late 1550s)
* Roger Holland (1558)
* Nicholas Horner (1590)
* Bartholomew Legate (1612)

ee also

* Smithfield, London
* Marian martyrs


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