Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Darcy or of Temple Hurst was an English nobleman, the only son, and heir, of Sir William Darcy and his wife, Euphemia Langton, the daughter of Sir John Langton. Darcy
Reconstruction of Pontefract Castle
Sign at the Tower Hill scaffold location
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Tower Hill is the area surrounding the Tower of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is infamous for the public execution of high status prisoners from the late 14th to the mid 18th centu
Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy
…and for his role in the Pilgrimage of Grace was convicted of high treason for delivering up Pontefract Castle to the rebels. He was executed on Tower Hill 30 June 1537. The Darcy family had held lands in Lincolnshire since the Domesday survey, wherein it appears that one Norman de Areci held thirty lordships…
10 Trinity Square, Tower Hill
A surviving section of Roman wall on Tower Hill. Great Tower Hill lay inside the wall, Little Tower Hill outside.
The Tower Hill Memorial, marking the site of the Scaffold
Scale model of the Tower of London showing the Bulwark Gate and bastion to the left