TIL that condemned criminals in 18th-century London were allowed to stop at a tavern for “one last drink” on their way from Newgate to Tyburn. In 1724 the highwayman Joseph Blake drank so heavily he slurred his last words from the gallows.
TIL that condemned criminals in 18th-century London were allowed to stop at a tavern for “one last drink” on their way from Newgate to Tyburn. In 1724 the highwayman Joseph Blake drank so heavily he slurred his last words from the gallows.
