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Tyburn Jig

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Coming soon to a high school dance near you.......................................... Executions took place at Tyburn until the 18th century. The first recorded execution took place at a site next to the stream in 1196. William Fitz Osbern, the populist leader of the London tax riots was cornered in the church of St Mary le Bow. He was dragged naked behind a horse to Tyburn, where he was hanged.In 1571, the "Tyburn Tree" was erected near the modern Marble Arch. The "Tree" or "Triple Tree" was a novel form of gallows, comprising a horizontal wooden triangle supported by three legs (an arrangement known as a "three legged mare" or "three legged stool"). Several felons could thus be hanged at once, and so the gallows was occasionally used for mass executions, such as that on June 23, 1649 when 24 prisoners – 23 men and one woman – were hanged simultaneously, having been conveyed there in eight carts."Dancing the Tyburn jig" was the act of being hanged.

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Member Since: 4/2/2006
Band Members: BRADMATTJESSMEG
Influences: We're under many of them:Scotch/Fate/Gravity/Electromagnetism/TheLiberalMedia/Mo rricone/Cash/Scotch/Cohen/Costello/Cave/Waits/McGowan/Dean/G ene/Chainsaws/Love/Loss/Redemption/Scotch
Sounds Like: Leonard's cat having a miscarriage in Nick's hot tub while elsewhere a monkey skeleton is surfing in cowboy boots in the Gulf of Mexico. Or maybe holding an empty can of Lone Star up to your ear on Pirate's Beach in Galveston.
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