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The Chartist Trial, Monmouth

Shire Hall, Monmouth

The last men sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered.

After the Newport Rising, Chartist leaders John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones were tried for high treason at Monmouth's Shire Hall. They were sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered, among the last in Britain to receive that sentence.

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When
January 1840
Where
51.8120, -2.7150
Group
Gibbets & executions

Visiting

Shire Hall is open, and visitors can sit in the courtroom.

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