Career
Following his arrest, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 18 March 1556, tried on 7 May in London"s Guildhall and executed at Tower Hill in 7 or 8 July 1556. After execution his head was displayed on London Bridge, and his body was buried at Allhallows, Barking. Peckham was the second son of Sir Edmund Peckham, cofferer to Henry VIII, and became an Member of Parliament through his family"s connections in Buckinghamshire.
