British Executions

George Masters

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 4 Sep 1740

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Gallows Field, Ilchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

George Masters guilty of the highway robbery of John Stallard: robbing him of 1/6.  After execution his body was hanged in chains on Brislington Common.