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Prophecies of the Hanged Man
The Great Library of Mortlake Sinister Tomes of the Royal Occultist Mythos. 3. The Tyburn Gospels The exact provenance of the unpleasant volume known as the Tyburn Gospels or 'The Dyvrse ad Most Accurayt Prophecys of ye Hanged Man' is unknown. Speculation, of course, is rife among those lucky (or unlucky) few who are aware of its existence as anything other than an offhand comment in an excised entry from the diaries of the antiquarian, John Loveday. Purportedly composed by an itinerant engraver named John Ashbless in 1759, the volume consists of twenty-three 'prophecies' - supposedly delivered by the highwayman William Pentworth as he hung from Tyburn Tree - the infamous gallows that occupied what is today the junction of Edgeware Road, Bayswater Road and Oxford Street until the 18th century.