John Austin (highwayman) of London by cart to the gallows. The 2½ mile journey along Tyburn Road would have taken up to three hours. Standing shackled in the cart, he would have been accompanied by two guards and a chaplain. They would traditionally stop on the way at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate and two public houses where drinks would be served. On arrival at Tyburn, Austin's cart would have been positioned under a beam and a noose attached around his head. He would then be permitted to address the crowd, his last words were: However, for Austin the noose slipped up the back of his
John Clavell at Gad's Hill. John Clavell John Clavell (1601–1643) was a highwayman, author, lawyer, and doctor. He is known for his poem "A Recantation of an Ill Led Life", and his play "The Soddered Citizen". His life is mainly split into two parts: his early life in England, where he grew up, lived as a highwayman, and started his reformation, and the latter part of his life in England and Ireland where he was a lawyer and physician. John Clavell was the youngest of six children. He was baptized at Wootton Glanville and grew up in Sherborne, England where he spent