Pall Mall: Wyatt's Insurrection

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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of Pall Mall with a mention of Sir Thomas Wyatt's insurrection against Queen Mary:

During Wyatt's insurrection in 1554, the mob passed along Pall Mall, and the Earl of Pembroke planted artillery on the high ground of Hay Hill and Piccadilly, when a piece of the Queen's ordnance, we are told, "slew three of Wyatt's followers, in a rank, and after carrying off their heads passed through this wall into the park" (Jesse).

In 1682 Thynne was murdered at the instigation of Count Konigsmarck in what is now Pall Mall East, because he had married the heiress of the Percys, whom the Count wished to marry himself.

The principal was acquitted, but his three accomplices or tools, who had actually committed the murder, were executed, according to the poetic justice of the time, at the scene of their offence, in 1682.

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