When the Countess of Salisbury was executed here for treason, the executioner needed 11 chops!
In 1485, the last Yorkist king, Richard III, was defeated and killed at the Battle of ... 
was one of the peers in the trial of Anne Boleyn; beheaded for treason during the 
... She was created Countess of Salisbury in her own right in 1513 and was ...