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Scaffold site

......and a list of those executed here

(three photos)

The above reads

On this site stood a scaffold on which were executed

Queen Anne Boleyn 19 May 1536 - Second wife of Henry VIII

Margaret, Countess of Salisbury 28 May 1541
Last Plantagenet Princess

Queen Katherine Howard 13 Feb 1542
Fifth wife of Henry VIII

Jane, Viscountess Rochford 13 Feb 1542
Wife of Anne Boleyn's brother

Lady Jane Grey 12 Feb 1554
Uncrowned Queen of 9 days

Robert Devereux 25 Feb 1601
Earl of Essex

Lord Hastings
was also beheaded near the spot in 1483

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