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A crowd of around 40.000 including Charles Dickens witnessed Courvoisier's execution. In January 2017 his plaster death mask was sold for £20.000 by Thomson Roddick auction house. The name of the buyer is unknown.
(6 July 1840)

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St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

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Sunday 15th of July 1381 (-) — Lollard priest John Ball is executed by hanging, drawn and quartered.
Ball's head was displayed stuck on a pike on London Bridge and the quarters of his body were displayed at four different towns.