It was noted in the burial registers that many of the men who were executed had 'out of County' names, including a fair sprinkling of Irish ones. Exeter, of course, was a heavily garrisoned city but the registers do not always show if the deceased were soldiers. Others would be victims of the Civil War. Names have been taken down for the period being researched, which was from the commencement of the records until 1763. Also noted are some of the strange and macabre endings of those poor souls.
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Clement Bowden prisoner, executed 29 July 1587. Edmund Caden prisoner, executed for murder 27 March 1606. Thomas Tooker sometime sord barer of the cytie of Exeter and executed at Heavitree for poysininge of his wife 23 March 1612. Philip Smyth executed for murder 7 April 1627. 29 July 1598 Richard Savidge executed at the gallows.