Note 111 — HISTORY (continued 2)

Strype, writing in 1720 about Hanover Square then partly built, says: “And it is reported that the common Place of Execution of Malefactors at Tyburn, shall be appointed elsewhere, as somewhere near Kingsland; for the removing any Inconveniences or Annoyances, that might thereby be occasioned to that Square, or the Houses thereabouts.”