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PREFACEHow our fathers lived is a subject of never-failing interest: of some interest it may be to inquire how they died—at Tyburn. The story has many aspects, some noble, some squalid, some pathetic, some revolting. If I am reproached with dwelling on the horrors of Tyburn, I take refuge under the wing of the great Lipsius, who, in his treatise De Cruce, has lavished the stores of his appalling erudition on a subject no less terrible.But the subject has an interest other than antiquarian. We are to-day far from the point of view of Shelley—“Power like a desolating pestilencePollutes whate’er it touches.”The general tendency is all towards extending the power of governments. Some would fain extend the sphere of the State’s activity so as to give to the State control over almost every action of our daily lives. It may therefore be not without use to recall how governments have dealt with the people in the past. The State never voluntarily surrenders anything of its power. Less than a hundred years ago, ministers stoutly defended their privilege of tearing out a man’s bowels and burning them before his eyes. The State devised and executed hideous punishments, sometimes made still mor

Who reads Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals?

Author

Alfred Marks

Publisher

Brown, Langham & Company

Published

1908

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Biography, Memoir, True Crime

Updated

2026-03-25