{"id":854,"date":"2021-12-17T14:10:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T14:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/?page_id=854"},"modified":"2022-01-04T17:02:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:02:26","slug":"hanged-for-stealing-a-horse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/hanged-for-stealing-a-horse","title":{"rendered":"Hanged for stealing a horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Turner, born in Thriplow, was hanged at Tyburn in 1713 for stealing a horse from Mr Ambrose Benning. This information was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2014-vol-22.2.pdf\">volume 22.2<\/a> (2014) of the Thriplow Journal.<\/p>\n<p>He was hanged along with four other men and two women on 25<sup>th<\/sup> September. In the days prior to the hanging and on the day itself the condemned were helped to pray and given religious instruction to help them repent and face a Christian death. &#8220;The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 25th of September, 1713&#8221; are all described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldbaileyonline.org\/browse.jsp?id=OA17130925&amp;div=OA17130925&amp;terms=Thriplow#highlight\">here<\/a>. You can see the original transcript of Thomas&#8217; confession <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldbaileyonline.org\/images.jsp?doc=OA171309250004\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Turner, born in Thriplow, was hanged at Tyburn in 1713 for stealing a horse from Mr Ambrose Benning. This information was published in volume 22.2 (2014) of the Thriplow Journal. He was hanged along with four other men and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/hanged-for-stealing-a-horse\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-854","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thriplow.org.uk\/thriplow-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}