British Executions

Thomas Limpons

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 21 Sep 1739

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Gallows Field, Ilchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/somers.html

Thomas Limpons guilty of the highway robbery of John Eastmont: robbing him of a leathern mail, valued at 40/-, the property of the King; and a brown gelding, valued at £5, the property of Henry Hoskins.  After execution his body was hanged in chains on Steep Rock.