for robbery and perjury. 1743 James Hunt and Thomas Collins hanged for sodomy at Kennington Common gallows. 1746 Col. Francis Towneley and eight men of the Manchester Regiment who had taken part in the Jacobite rising were hanged, drawn and quartered on 30 July. 1749 Richard Coleman executed "for a murder he did not commit" on 12 April. 1751 A road was "cut through gardens 80-foot wide" from Kennington Common to Westminster Bridge. (The Gentleman's Magazine Monday 16 December 1751). The road is Kennington Road and comes up to the common next to the Horns tavern. 1767 The common was flooded by a high tide coming up Vauxhall Creek. 1785 Last known use of the Common as a venue for first-class cricket. 1790 William Blake moved to North Lambeth and may have attended commons meetings in the 1790s, in all likelihood with Thomas Paine. 1792 Mungo, a black prize fighter breaks the jaw of his opponent, a carpenter, in a boxing match on the common. (Peter Linebaugh The London Hanged Verso 2003 p. 414) 1795 Lewis Jeremiah Avershaw an infamous highwayman, was executed for shooting a Peace Officer on 3 August. 1799 The last person to be hanged at the common (six years after public execution was ended at Tyburn) was a fraudster from nearby Camberwell by the name Badger. "The Gymnastic Society" met regularly at Kennington Common during the second half of the eighteenth century to play football The Society – arguably the world's first football club – consisted of London-based natives of Cumberland and Westmoreland. 19th century 1800 The much-respected Mr. Briant becomes landlord of the Horns runs a famous Glee Club. Briant died 1852 but his relatives still live in Kennington, one of whom chaired the Parks Management Advisory Committee in 1996. 1815 In February, a mob breaks windows 'round the Horns'. LifeGuards called out to quell the mob. The Riot Act was read. In 1819 The Peterloo Massacre signalled an end to repression by violence. 1818 Camberwell New Road is built running east/west, cutting the southern corner of the common off from the rest of it. 1824 St. Mark's Church by D. R. Roper, built on an enclosed corner of the common, over the river Effra. Promoted by the Church of England as the 'salvation of the common', twenty four years later it was the vicar of this church who led the move to enclose the