Invitation to a Hanging

Invitation to a Hanging

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On 16th November 1724, 200,000 Londoners - a third of the city's population - lined the streets to watch the open cart that carried the thief Jack Sheppard, to Tyburn to be hanged

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  • Invitation to a Hanging

    By the time of his execution Jack Sheppard had become a legend. The King owned portraits of him and he was the inspiration for The Beggar's Opera and Defoe wrote about his life.

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