'Place of Execution, Old Smithfield', 1890. The Marian Martyrs, protestants slaughtered under Queen Mary, met their demise at the Elms in Smithfield, also the site of William Wallace’s execution in 1305. Heretics were burned at the stake. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]
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