| Confirmed executions at the Tower of London. | ||||
| Name | Date | Place | Method | Crime |
| Sir Simon Burley | 05/05/1388 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Supporting the King's struggle for absolute power |
| Sir John Beachamp | 12/05/1388 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Supporting the King's struggle for absolute power |
| Sir John Berners | 12/05/1388 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Supporting the King's struggle for absolute power |
| Sir John Salisbury | 12/05/1388 | Tower Hill or Tyburn | Hanging | Supporting the King's struggle for absolute power |
| Richard Fitzalan Earl of Arundel | 21/09/1397 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Serving on a commission against the King's favourites |
| Richard Wyche | 16/06/1440 | Tower Hill | Burned at the stake | Converting to Lollardism |
| Lord Aubrey de Vere | 20/02/1462 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Corresponding with a Lancastrian conspiracy |
| John Montgomery | 23/02/1462 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Corresponding with a Lancastrian conspiracy |
| Sir William Tyrrel | 23/02/1462 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Corresponding with a Lancastrian conspiracy |
| Sir Thomas Tudenham | 23/02/1462 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Corresponding with a Lancastrian conspiracy |
| John de Vere 12th Earl of Oxford (father) | 26/02/1462 | Tower Hill | see end notes | Corresponding with a Lancastrian conspiracy |
| John Tiptoft, 4th Earl of Worcester | 18/10/1470 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Extreme cruelty |
| John Goose | 1475 | Tower Hill | Burned at the stake | Lollardism |
| Baron William Hastings | 13/06/1483 | near Tower Chapel | Beheading | Supporting King Edward V in the Council Chamber |
| Sir George Browne | 04/12/1483 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Supporting a proposed invasion by Henry Tudor |
| John Smith | 26/02/1484 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason |
| Stephen Ireland | " | " | " | " |
| Robert Ruffe | " | " | " | " |
| William Davey | " | " | " | " |
| Sir Roger Clifford | 1484 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Favouring the cause of Henry Tudor |
| William Collingbourne | 12/1484 | Tower Hill | Hanged, drawn and quartered | Favouring the cause of Henry Tudor |
| John Ashley | 1488/89 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treasonous involvement with Lambert Simnel's pretendership |
| Unnamed man | 1488/89 | " | " | " |
| Unnamed man | 1488/89 | " | " | " |
| Sir Robert Chamberlain | 12/03/1491 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Plotting against Henry VII |
| William Daubeny | 03/02/1495 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Supporting pretender Perkin Warbeck |
| Sir William Stanley | 16/02/1495 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Suggested supporting pretender Perkin Warbeck |
| Captain John Belt | 07/09/1495 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Supporting pretender Perkin Warbeck |
| James Touchet (or Tuchet) Lord Audley | 27/06/1497 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Led protest against taxation. Beheaded wearing a paper suit of armour |
| Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick | 28/11/1499 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason |
| Sir James Tyrrel | 06/05/1502 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Assisting Edmund de la Pole after his escape and offering to |
| Sir John Wyndham | " | " | " | surrendered Guisnes Castle to the French |
| Edmund Dudley | 17/08/1510 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Extortion |
| Sir Richard Empson or Emson | " | " | " | " |
| Edmund de la Pole 8th Earl of Suffolk | 04/05/1513 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Yorkist claimant to the throne |
| Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham | 17/05/1521 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Claiming lineage from Edward III's firth son |
| Sir Rhys ap Gryffydd | 04/12/1531 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Partiality, injustice and plotting an alliance with Scotland |
| 5 unnamed persons | 15/06/1532 | Tower Hill | Hanged, drawn and quartered | High treason -coining |
| John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester | 22/06/1535 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Refused to take the Oath of Supremacy |
| Sir Thomas Moore | 06/07/1535 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Refused to take the Oath of Supremacy |
| George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford | 17/05/1536 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Incest and adultery with his sister Anne Boleyn |
| Henry Norris | 17/05/1536 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Adulterous association with Anne Boleyn |
| Sir Frances Weston | " | " | " | " |
| William Brereton | " | " | " | " |
| Mark Smeaton | " | " | " | " |
| Queen Anne Boleyn | 19/05/1536 | Tower Green | Beheading with sword | Treason - incest and adultery |
| Lord Thomas Darcy of Templehurst | 30/06/1537 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treasonable correspondence with Robert Aske re Pilgrimage of Grace |
| Sir Edward Neville | 09/12/1538 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Catholicism |
| Sir Henry Pole Baron Montague | 09/01/1539 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Preaching Catholic sermons |
| Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter | 09/01/1539 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason - aspiring to the throne |
| Sir Nicholas Carew | 03/03/1539 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Catholicism |
| Sir Thomas Dingley | ??/07/1539 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Implicated in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Executed 9 or 10 July |
| Sir Adrian Fortescue | ??/07/1539 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Sedition |
| Thomas Cromwell, 17th Earl of Essex | 28/06/1540 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason by betraying the King's secrets. |
| Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury | 28/05/1541 | Tower Green | Beheading | Implicated in the Pilgrimage of Grace |
| Lord Leonard Grey, Viscount Grane | 28/06/1541 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason in Ireland |
| Queen Katherine Howard | 13/02/1542 | Tower Green | Beheading | Treason - adultery |
| Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford | 13/02/1542 | Tower Green | Beheading | Treason - concealing the Queen's adultery |
| Henry Howard, 15th Earl of Surrey | 19/01/1547 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason - aspiring to the throne |
| Baron Thomas Seymour | 20/03/1549 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason - aspiring to the throne |
| Edward Seymour, 9th Earl of Hertford | 22/01/1552 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Plotting to murder John Dudley |
| Sir Miles Partridge | 26/02/1552 | Tower Hill | Hanging | Plotting against John Dudley Protector of Northumberland |
| Sir Ralph Vane (Vayne or Fane) | 26/02/1552 | Tower Hill | Hanging | Treason against King and Council |
| Sir Thomas Arundel | 26/02/1552 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Implicated in the Seymour treason |
| John Dudley, 16th Earl of Northumberland | 22/08/1553 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason-proclaiming his daughter in law Lady Jane Grey as Queen |
| Sir Thomas Palmer | 22/08/1553 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason-supporting Lady Jane Grey |
| Lord Guildford Dudley | 12/02/1554 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason - assuming Royal authority |
| Lady Jane Grey (Dudley) | 12/02/1554 | Tower Green | Beheading | Usurping the English throne |
| Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk | 24/02/1554 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason - rebellion |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt | 11/04/1554 | Tower Hill | Beheading & quartering | Treason - rebellion |
| Lord Thomas Grey | 27/04/1554 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason - rebellion |
| Henry Peckham & | 07/07/1556 | Tower Hill | Hanging | Plotted to rob the Exchequer |
| John Daniel (or Daniell) | " | " | " | " |
| Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk | 02/06/1572 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason - Ridolfi Plot |
| Five unruly youths (unnamed) | 24/07/1595 | Tower Hill | Hanged & bowelled | Causing a disturbance on Tower Hill |
| Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex | 25/02/1601 | Broad Walk in the Tower | Beheading | High treason |
| Sir Christopher Blount | 18/03/1601 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason - conspiring against the Queen |
| Sir Gervais Helwys | 20/11/1615 | Tower Hill | Hanging | Complicity in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury |
| Mervin Touchet, Lord Audley | 14/05/1631 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Abetting one of his servants to rape Lady Audley |
| Sir Thomas Wentworth Earl of Stafford | 12/05/1641 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason - supporting King Charles I |
| Sir Alexander Carew | 23/12/1644 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Offering to surrender Plymouth to King Charles I |
| Sir John Hotham | 01/01/1645 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Scandalous words against Parliament |
| John Hotham (son of above) | 01/01/1645 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason - supporting King Charles I |
| William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury | 10/01/1645 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason - supporting King Charles I |
| Colonel Eusebius Andrews | 22/04/1650 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Involvement in bogus plot against the army |
| Bown Bushell | 29/03/1651 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Offering to betray Scarborough Castle to King Charles I |
| Christopher Love | 22/08/1651 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Plotting against the Commonwealth |
| ??? Gibbon(s) | 22/08/1651 | " | " | " |
| John Gerrard | 10/07/1654 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Plotting against the Protector |
| Don de Pantaleon SA | 19/07/1654 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Accused of murder |
| Sir Henry Slingsby | 08/06/1658 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason trying to raise an army for the King |
| John Hewitt or Hewett | " | " | " | " |
| Sir Henry Vane | 14/06/1662 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason |
| William Howard, Viscount Stafford | 29/12/1680 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Treason - paymaster to a secret Catholic army planning to kill Charles II |
| Algernon Sidney or Sydney | 07/12/1683 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Complicity in Popish Plot |
| James Scott, Duke of Monmouth | 15/05/1685 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Monmouth Rebellion |
| Richard Cane (a soldier) | 15/04/1687 | Tower Hill | Hanging | Desertion |
| Sir William Parkyns or Perkins | 13/04/1696 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Plotting to assassinate William III |
| Sir John Fenwick | 28/01/1697 | Tower Hill | Beheading | Privy to plot to assassinate William III |
| Michael Van Bergen | 19/07/1700 | East Smithfield | Hanging | Murder of Mr. Oliver Norris |
| Katherine Truerniet (also Bergen) | " | " | " | " This place is also referred to as Little Tower Hill |
| Gerhardt Dromelius | " | " | " | " |
| Sir James Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater | 24/02/1716 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason - Jacobite Rising |
| William Gordon, Viscount Kenmure | " | " | " | " |
| Corporal Samuel Macpherson | 18/07/1743 | S E wall of chapel | Firing squad | Desertion (Shot by 3rd Regiment of Guards) |
| Corporal Malcolm Macpherson | " | " | " | " |
| Private Farquhar Shaw | 18/07/1743 | " | " | " |
| General William Boyd, Earl of Kilmarnock | 18/08/1746 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason - Colonel of the Jacobite Horse Grenadiers |
| Arthur Elphinstone, Baron Balmerino | 18/08/1746 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason - Colonel of the 2nd troop of Jacobite Horse Guards |
| Charles Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater | 08/12/1746 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason - supporting Prince Charles Edward |
| Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat | 09/04/1747 | Tower Hill | Beheading | High treason - Jacobite |
| William McDonald | 11/07/1780 | Tower Hill | Hanging | Gordon rioters |
| Charlotte Gardiner | " | " | " | " |
| Mary Roberts | " | " | " | " |
| Total confirmed executions to 1388 - 1780 | 122 | |||
| Beheaded | 93 | |||
| Hanged | 12 | |||
| Firing squad | 3 | |||
| Burned at the stake | 2 | |||
| Hanged drawn & quartered | 11 | |||
| Plus John de Vere who was reputedly tightly bound, had his stomach cut open and his entrails cast into a fire. He was then castrated and thrown, still living into the fire. | ||||
| 20th century executions at the Tower of London. (11 in total) | ||||
| Carl Hans Lody | 11/6/1914 | East Casements rifle range | Firing squad | Spying, executed at 6.00 am |
| Karl Friedrich Muller | 6/23/1915 | Tower rifle range | Firing squad | Spying |
| Haike Marinus Petrus Jansson | 7/30/1915 | Tower Ditch | Firing squad | Spying, executed at 6.00 am |
| Wilhelm J Roos | 7/30/1915 | Tower Ditch | Firing squad | Spying, executed at 6.10 am |
| Ernst Waldemar Melin | 9/10/1915 | Tower rifle range | Firing squad | Spying |
| Fernando Buschman | 10/19/1915 | Tower rifle range | Firing squad | Spying |
| George Traugott Breekow | 10/26/1915 | Tower rifle range | Firing squad | Spying |
| Irvin Guy Ries | 10/27/1915 | Tower rifle range | Firing squad | Spying |
| Albert Meyer | 12/2/1915 | Tower rifle range | Firing squad | Spying |
| Ludovico Zendery Hurwitz | 4/11/1916 | Tower rifle range | Firing squad | Spying |
| Josef Jacobs | 8/15/1941 | East Casements rifle range | Firing squad | Spying |
| Note. Prisoners held in the Tower of London were also executed at other sites, e.g. at Smithfield, then known as West Smithfield, by burning at the stake and probably by hanging. | ||||
| In some early cases the place of execution is not stated or cannot be confirmed. At least in the case of Earl Ferrers in 1760 he was imprisoned in the Tower but hanged at Tyburn. | ||||
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