On this day in Tudor history, 10th December, Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were executed for treason for their involvement in Queen Catherine Howard's fall (1541), and Catholic priest Edmund Gennings and Catholic Swithin Wells were executed for treason (1591)...
- 1541 - Thomas Culpeper, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and Francis Dereham, a member of Queen Catherine Howard's household, were executed at Tyburn. Culpeper and Dereham were tried on 1st December 1541 at the Guildhall, and convicted of treason. Both were executed on 10th December 1541, but Culpeper was beheaded while Dereham had to face the brutal traitor's death of being hanged, drawn and quartered. Culpeper was buried at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate (Holborn). See video below.
- 1591 – Executions of Edmund Gennings, Roman Catholic priest, and Swithin Wells, Roman Catholic, on a scaffold set up outside Wells' house at Holborn. They were hanged, drawn and quartered for treason due to their Catholic faith and for celebrating the mass. See video below.
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