Executions
Public executions of high-profile traitors and criminals were often carried out on Tower Hill, including:
- 1381 - Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (beheaded by an angry mob)
- 1381 - Sir Robert Hales
- 1388 - Sir Simon de Burley
- 1397 - Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel
- 1440 - Rev. Richard Wyche, Vicar of Deptford
- 1462 - John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford
- 1470 - John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester
- 1495 - Sir William Stanley
- 1497 - James Tuchet, a commander of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497
- 1499 - Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick
- 1502 - James Tyrrell
- 1510 - Edmund Dudley
- 1510 - Sir Richard Empson
- 1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
- 1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
- 1535 - Sir Thomas More, ex-Lord Chancellor
- 1536 - George Boleyn, brother of Anne Boleyn
- 1537 - Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy
- 1538 - Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon
- 1540 - Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
- 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- 1552 - Sir Ralph Vane
- 1552 - Sir Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle
- 1552 - Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
- 1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt
- 1554 - Lord Guildford Dudley
- 1572 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
- 1615 - Sir Gervase Helwys
- 1631 - Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
- 1641 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
- 1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1662 - Sir Henry Vane
- 1683 - Col. Algernon Sidney
- 1685 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
- 1716 - James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater
- 1746 - William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock
- 1746 - Robert Boyd (of Clan Boyd)
- 1747 - Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat
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