Robert Hubert
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Robert Hubert was a watchmaker from Rouen, France, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London.
Hubert in the Pyrotechnica Loyalana (1667) receiving a fire-bomb from a Jesuit (perhaps William Harcourt, a Jesuit hanged after the Popish Plot), in front of a gallows.
Tyburn
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Tyburn was a manor in London, Middlesex, England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone. Tyburn took its name from the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the River Westbourne. The name Ty
Robert Hubert
…jury stated that he did not have "the fear of God before his eyes, but [was] moved and led away by the instigation of the devil". Hubert was hanged at Tyburn, London, on 27 October 1666. As his body was being handed to the Company of Barber-Surgeons for dissection, it was torn apart by a crowd of Londoners. It was…
The "Tyburn Tree"
Toll house (1760 - 1829) serving Bayswater and Edgware turnpikes on the site of Tyburn Tree. From Paul Sandby's Trade Card
View by William Capon across the second site of Tyburn Gallows on Edgware Road near its junction with Bryanston Street, 1785
Stone marking the site of the Tyburn tree on the traffic island at the junction of Edgware Road, Bayswater Road and Oxford Street