Public executions on Peckham Rye Common (Query)

[edhistory]

Thanks again, ianr, another item for my Kew shopping list.

John K

[Mick Mac]

lilolil Wrote:

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> There is this.... Look for 10th August 1786 LADD

> hanged Peckham Common.

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And he was hanged for sodomy...

[eucalyptus]

edhistory Wrote:

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> Martin Baggoley in his book "Surrey Executions"

> asserts, without supporting evidence, that "In

> eighteenth-century Surrey [...] condemmed

> criminals were [...] hanged [...] on Peckham

> Common [...]".

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> I have never seen any evidence to support this

> statement.

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Really? I often see abandoned nooses lying around the common.

[eucalyptus]

Loz Wrote:

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> We've had DNA for hundreds of thousands of years.

Hahaha

[DulwichFox]

Would be a Good Spot for some Stocks to be installed.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSb27PJU6ROIPuhQfsqMXX-Qo5e2xU9NZ-de1lWhLxzvTFkwiKccv7rkg

No shortage of deserving cases in the area.