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Tyburn, the place where executions took place informer times; it was situate on the Oxford Road, not far from where the Marble Arch now stands. The execution was preceded by a procession from Newgate to Tyburn, the criminal being drawn in a cart, but this practice was abolished in 1783, and the sentences thenceforward carried out in front of Newgate. See Gent. Mag. 1783, pp. 974, 1060; Croker Papers, vol. iii. pp. 15, 16; Boswell's Johnson, Ed. by Birkbeck Hill, vol. iv., p. 188.