Smithfield, London personal signature of the Monarch), invariably upon ministerial recommendation, which if unexercised by the time of a Sovereign's death required renewed authority. In this case Queen Elizabeth did not approve the executions, thus freeing the Protestants. During the 16th century the Smithfield site was also the place of execution of swindlers and coin forgers, who were boiled to death in oil. By the 18th century the "Tyburn Tree" (near the present-day Marble Arch) became the main place for public executions in London. After 1785, executions were again moved, this time to the gates of Newgate prison, just to the south
The Six Bells grade II by Historic England. website The Six Bells The Six Bells is a public house in St Michael's Street in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. The seventeenth century timber-framed building is situated within the walls of the Roman city of Verulamium. It is built on the site of a Roman bath house, which appears to have been damaged when Verulamium was sacked by Boudica in AD 61. The name of the pub refers to the bells of St Michael's Church, St Albans. The church had six bells in the eighteenth century although it now has more. The building has been