Mark Fytton
Mark Fytton was a butcher from Windsor in Berkshire. He was executed in 1536 for insulting Henry VIII and his new bride Anne Boleyn. Fytton was hung from the Curfew Tower of Windsor Castle.
Fytton's interrogation and death were portrayed in the 1843 novel Windsor Castle by William Harrison Ainsworth. Fytton was also depicted in the play Herne the Hunter by N.B. Clarke which debuted in 1856 at the Bowery Theatre in New York City.[1]
The site of Fytton's butchers shop was subsequently occupied by the Tower House Hotel. It was demolished in 1938.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ ""Herne the Hunter" in New York". The New York Clipper. 19 August 1876. p. 165. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "News". Plattsburgh Daily Press. 22 February 1938. p. 1. Retrieved 25 January 2024.