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Hangman's Highway, for from the west gateway in the wall of Roman _Londinium_, from the spot in after-years known as
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Newgate, the malefactors of the Roman period were marched out and done to death. But in mediæval times, the citizens of London, not then so easily moved at the sight of executions, were content to allow criminals to be put to death in their midst, and we read of executions on Cornhill. A little later, and we find Smithfield chosen; a spot called
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The Elms,