Rowlands Knave of Hearts 78: Though pyrates exempted be / From fatall Tyburne’s wither’d tree, / They have an harbour to arrive, / Call’d Wapping, where as ill they thrive, / As those that ride up Holbourne-hill. [Ibid.] Knave of Spades & Diamonds 109: You by this time stinke in Newgate jayle, / Where we will leave you till the cart do call, / To ride up Holbourne to the hangman’s hall.at walk (backwards) up Holborn Hill (v.) under Holborn Hill, n.