Confirmed executions at the Tower of London

Confirmed executions at the Tower of London.
Name	Date	Place	Method	Crime
Sir Simon Burley	05/05/1388	Tower Hill	Beheading	Supporting the King's struggle for absolute power
Sir John Beachamp	12/05/1388	Tower Hill	Beheading	Supporting the King's struggle for absolute power
Sir John Berners	12/05/1388	Tower Hill	Beheading	Supporting the King's struggle for absolute power
Sir John Salisbury	12/05/1388	Tower Hill or Tyburn	Hanging	Supporting the King's struggle for absolute power
Richard Fitzalan Earl of Arundel	21/09/1397	Tower Hill	Beheading	Serving on a commission against the King's favourites
Richard Wyche	16/06/1440	Tower Hill	Burned at the stake	Converting to Lollardism
Lord Aubrey de Vere	20/02/1462	Tower Hill	Beheading	Corresponding with a Lancastrian conspiracy
John Montgomery	23/02/1462	Tower Hill	Beheading	Corresponding with a Lancastrian conspiracy
Sir William Tyrrel	23/02/1462	Tower Hill	Beheading	Corresponding with a Lancastrian conspiracy
Sir Thomas Tudenham	23/02/1462	Tower Hill	Beheading	Corresponding with a Lancastrian conspiracy
John de Vere 12th Earl of Oxford (father)	26/02/1462	Tower Hill	see end notes	Corresponding with a Lancastrian conspiracy
John Tiptoft, 4th Earl of Worcester	18/10/1470	Tower Hill	Beheading	Extreme cruelty
John Goose	1475	Tower Hill	Burned at the stake	Lollardism
Baron William Hastings	13/06/1483	near Tower Chapel	Beheading	Supporting King Edward V in the Council Chamber
Sir George Browne	04/12/1483	Tower Hill	Beheading	Supporting a proposed invasion by Henry Tudor
John Smith	26/02/1484	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason
Stephen Ireland	"	"	"	"
Robert Ruffe	"	"	"	"
William Davey	"	"	"	"
Sir Roger Clifford	1484	Tower Hill	Beheading	Favouring the cause of Henry Tudor
William Collingbourne	12/1484	Tower Hill	Hanged, drawn and quartered	Favouring the cause of Henry Tudor
John Ashley	1488/89	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treasonous involvement with Lambert Simnel's pretendership
Unnamed man	1488/89	"	"	"
Unnamed man	1488/89	"	"	"
Sir Robert Chamberlain	12/03/1491	Tower Hill	Beheading	Plotting against Henry VII
William Daubeny	03/02/1495	Tower Hill	Beheading	Supporting pretender Perkin Warbeck
Sir William Stanley	16/02/1495	Tower Hill	Beheading	Suggested supporting pretender Perkin Warbeck
Captain John Belt	07/09/1495	Tower Hill	Beheading	Supporting pretender Perkin Warbeck
James Touchet (or Tuchet) Lord Audley	27/06/1497	Tower Hill	Beheading	Led protest against taxation. Beheaded wearing a paper suit of armour
Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick	28/11/1499	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason
Sir James Tyrrel	06/05/1502	Tower Hill	Beheading	Assisting Edmund de la Pole after his escape and offering to
Sir John Wyndham	"	"	"	surrendered Guisnes Castle to the French
Edmund Dudley	17/08/1510	Tower Hill	Beheading	Extortion
Sir Richard Empson or Emson	"	"	"	"
Edmund de la Pole 8th Earl of Suffolk	04/05/1513	Tower Hill	Beheading	Yorkist claimant to the throne
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham	17/05/1521	Tower Hill	Beheading	Claiming lineage from Edward III's firth son
Sir Rhys ap Gryffydd	04/12/1531	Tower Hill	Beheading	Partiality, injustice and plotting an alliance with Scotland
5 unnamed persons	15/06/1532	Tower Hill	Hanged, drawn and quartered	High treason -coining
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester	22/06/1535	Tower Hill	Beheading	Refused to take the Oath of Supremacy
Sir Thomas Moore	06/07/1535	Tower Hill	Beheading	Refused to take the Oath of Supremacy
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford	17/05/1536	Tower Hill	Beheading	Incest and adultery with his sister Anne Boleyn
Henry Norris	17/05/1536	Tower Hill	Beheading	Adulterous association with Anne Boleyn
Sir Frances Weston	"	"	"	"
William Brereton	"	"	"	"
Mark Smeaton	"	"	"	"
Queen Anne Boleyn	19/05/1536	Tower Green	Beheading with sword	Treason - incest and adultery
Lord Thomas Darcy of Templehurst	30/06/1537	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treasonable correspondence with Robert Aske re Pilgrimage of Grace
Sir Edward Neville	09/12/1538	Tower Hill	Beheading	Catholicism
Sir Henry Pole Baron Montague	09/01/1539	Tower Hill	Beheading	Preaching Catholic sermons
Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter	09/01/1539	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason - aspiring to the throne
Sir Nicholas Carew	03/03/1539	Tower Hill	Beheading	Catholicism
Sir Thomas Dingley	??/07/1539	Tower Hill	Beheading	Implicated in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Executed  9 or 10 July
Sir Adrian Fortescue	??/07/1539	Tower Hill	Beheading	Sedition
Thomas Cromwell, 17th Earl of Essex	28/06/1540	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason by betraying the King's secrets.
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury	28/05/1541	Tower Green	Beheading	Implicated in the Pilgrimage of Grace
Lord Leonard Grey, Viscount Grane	28/06/1541	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason in Ireland
Queen Katherine Howard	13/02/1542	Tower Green	Beheading	Treason - adultery
Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford	13/02/1542	Tower Green	Beheading	Treason - concealing the Queen's adultery
Henry Howard, 15th Earl of Surrey	19/01/1547	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason - aspiring to the throne
Baron Thomas Seymour	20/03/1549	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason - aspiring to the throne
Edward Seymour, 9th Earl of Hertford	22/01/1552	Tower Hill	Beheading	Plotting to murder John Dudley
Sir Miles Partridge	26/02/1552	Tower Hill	Hanging	Plotting against John Dudley Protector of Northumberland
Sir Ralph Vane (Vayne or Fane)	26/02/1552	Tower Hill	Hanging	Treason against King and Council
Sir Thomas Arundel	26/02/1552	Tower Hill	Beheading	Implicated in the Seymour treason
John Dudley, 16th Earl of Northumberland	22/08/1553	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason-proclaiming his daughter in law Lady Jane Grey as Queen
Sir Thomas Palmer	22/08/1553	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason-supporting Lady Jane Grey
Lord Guildford Dudley	12/02/1554	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason - assuming Royal authority
Lady Jane Grey (Dudley)	12/02/1554	Tower Green	Beheading	Usurping the English throne
Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk	24/02/1554	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason - rebellion
Sir Thomas Wyatt	11/04/1554	Tower Hill	Beheading & quartering	Treason - rebellion
Lord Thomas Grey	27/04/1554	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason - rebellion
Henry Peckham &	07/07/1556	Tower Hill	Hanging	Plotted to rob the Exchequer
John Daniel (or Daniell)	"	"	"	"
Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk	02/06/1573	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason - Ridolfi Plot
Five unruly youths (unnamed)	24/07/1595	Tower Hill	Hanged & bowelled	Causing a disturbance on Tower Hill
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex	25/02/1601	Broad Walk in the Tower	Beheading	High treason
Sir Christopher Blount	18/03/1601	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason - conspiring against the Queen
Sir Gervais Helwys	20/11/1615	Tower Hill	Hanging	Complicity in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury
Mervin Touchet, Lord Audley	14/05/1631	Tower Hill	Beheading	Abetting one of his servants to rape Lady Audley
Sir Thomas Wentworth Earl of Stafford	12/05/1641	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason - supporting King Charles I
Sir Alexander Carew	23/12/1644	Tower Hill	Beheading	Offering to surrender Plymouth to King Charles I
Sir John Hotham	01/01/1645	Tower Hill	Beheading	Scandalous words against Parliament
John Hotham (son of above)	01/01/1645	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason - supporting King Charles I
William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury	10/01/1645	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason - supporting King Charles I
Colonel Eusebius Andrews	22/04/1650	Tower Hill	Beheading	Involvement in bogus plot against the army
Bown Bushell	29/03/1651	Tower Hill	Beheading	Offering to betray Scarborough Castle to King Charles I
Christopher Love	22/08/1651	Tower Hill	Beheading	Plotting against the Commonwealth
??? Gibbon(s)	22/08/1651	"	"	"
John Gerrard	10/07/1654	Tower Hill	Beheading	Plotting against the Protector
Don de Pantaleon SA	19/07/1654	Tower Hill	Beheading	Accused of murder
Sir Henry Slingsby	08/06/1658	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason trying to raise an army for the King
John Hewitt or Hewett	"	"	"	"
Sir Henry Vane	14/06/1662	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason
William Howard, Viscount Stafford	29/12/1680	Tower Hill	Beheading	Treason - paymaster to a secret Catholic army planning to kill Charles II
Algernon Sidney or Sydney	07/12/1683	Tower Hill	Beheading	Complicity in Popish Plot
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth	15/05/1685	Tower Hill	Beheading	Monmouth Rebellion
Richard Cane (a soldier)	15/04/1687	Tower Hill	Hanging	Desertion
Sir William Parkyns or Perkins	13/04/1696	Tower Hill	Beheading	Plotting to assassinate William III
Sir John Fenwick	28/01/1697	Tower Hill	Beheading	Privy to plot to assassinate William III
Michael Van  Bergen	19/07/1700	East Smithfield	Hanging	Murder of Mr. Oliver Norris
Katherine Truerniet (also Bergen)	"	"	"	"     This place is also referred to as Little Tower Hill
Gerhardt Dromelius	"	"	"	"
Sir James Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater	24/02/1716	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason - Jacobite Rising
William Gordon, Viscount Kenmure	"	"	"	"
Corporal Samuel Macpherson	18/07/1743	S E wall of chapel	Firing squad	Desertion (Shot by 3rd Regiment of Guards)
Corporal Malcolm Macpherson	"	"	"	"
Private Farquhar Shaw	18/07/1743	"	"	"
General William Boyd, Earl of Kilmarnock	18/08/1746	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason - Colonel of the Jacobite Horse Grenadiers
Arthur Elphinstone, Baron Balmerino	18/08/1746	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason - Colonel of the 2nd troop of Jacobite Horse Guards
Charles Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater	08/12/1746	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason - supporting Prince Charles Edward
Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat	09/04/1747	Tower Hill	Beheading	High treason - Jacobite
William McDonald	11/07/1780	Tower Hill	Hanging	Gordon rioters
Charlotte Gardiner	"	"	"	"
Mary Roberts	"	"	"	"
Total confirmed executions to 1388 - 1780	122
Beheaded	93
Hanged	12
Firing squad	3
Burned at the stake	2
Hanged drawn & quartered	11
Plus John de Vere who was reputedly tightly bound, had his stomach cut open and his entrails cast into a fire.  He was then castrated and thrown, still living into the fire.
20th century executions at the Tower of London. (11 in total)
Carl Hans Lody	06/11/1914	East Casements rifle range	Firing squad	Spying, executed at 6.00 am
Karl Friedrich Muller	23/06/1915	Tower rifle range	Firing squad	Spying
Haike Marinus Petrus Jansson	30/07/1915	Tower Ditch	Firing squad	Spying, executed at 6.00 am
Wilhelm J Roos	30/07/1915	Tower Ditch	Firing squad	Spying, executed at 6.10 am
Ernst Waldemar Melin	10/09/1915	Tower rifle range	Firing squad	Spying
Fernando Buschman	19/10/1915	Tower rifle range	Firing squad	Spying
George Traugott Breekow	26/10/1915	Tower rifle range	Firing squad	Spying
Irvin Guy Ries	27/10/1915	Tower rifle range	Firing squad	Spying
Albert Meyer	02/12/1915	Tower rifle range	Firing squad	Spying
Ludovico Zendery Hurwitz	11/04/1916	Tower rifle range	Firing squad	Spying
Josef Jacobs	15/08/1941	East Casements rifle range	Firing squad	Spying
Note.  Prisoners held in the Tower of London were also executed at other sites, e.g. at Smithfield, then known as West Smithfield, by burning at the stake and probably by hanging.
In some early cases the place of execution is not stated or cannot be confirmed.  At least in the case of Earl Ferrers in 1760 he was imprisoned in the Tower but hanged at Tyburn.
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