... he wished to spare. In the days of Edward I. the Abbot of Peterborough set up a gallows at Collingham, Nottinghamshire, and hanged thereon a thief. This ...
... town has been in use to pay his house rent, and a salary over and above. Roger Wilson, the present executioner, has, since he was admitted, received ...
... Frampton, Wilberton, and Sherbeck, all on the right, and by a gibbet on the left, over a stone bridge.. Leaving Nottingham you ascend a hill, and ...
... in agony, and that his cries were heartrending, until a mail-coachman passing that way put him out of his misery by shooting him. On the night of ...
... and rags, was standing in 1827-28, when it was taken down.[16]. We learn from The Norfolk and Norwich Remembrancer (1822), that on May 2nd, 1804, ...
... all four hundred, he told those who attended him he would plead. The weights were at once taken off, the cords cut asunder he was raised up by two men, ...
... was maintained throughout the Middle Ages. Burning alive was from early times the recognised method of uprooting heretical notions of religious belief ...
... present doth either take hold of the rope (or putteth forth his arm so near to the same as he can get, in token that he is willing to see justice executed), ...
... disuse, and were finally presented by the Corporation to Mr. J. Kirby Hedges, of Wallingford Castle, the historian of the ancient town. He informs us ...
... of the crowd. In 1731, a essional witness, i.e., one who, for the reward offered for the conviction of criminals, would swear falsely against them, ...
... from each other, on which were hung a jack-boot, an axe, and a Scotch bon. The latter, after remaining some time, was burnt, and the top-boot chopped ...
... the next market day.. Tippling on a Sunday during public divine service was in years agone a violation of the laws, and frequently was the means of ...
... King James for it, paying to a Scotch lord his weight in gold and silver, every seven years or thereabouts, etc. The other magistrate found a poor man ...
... statute, in 1791, expressly forbade the whipping of female vagrants. This was certainly a much needed reform. Mr. Samuel Carter Hall, born in the year ...
... In the course of time the terms cucking and ducking stools became synonymous, and implied the machines for the ducking of scolds in water. In ...
... seat, In sullen pomp, oundly great. Down in the deep the stool descends, But here, at first, we miss our ends She mounts again, and rages more Than ...
... tied in the chair, and the machine pushed into a pond called the Weirpond, and the shafts being let go, the scold was lifted backwards into the water, ...
... He beat her black, he beat her blue When Old Nick gets him, he'll give him his due Ran, tan, tan ran, tan, tan We'll send him there in this old ...
... their vengeance upon him. This amusement was kept up for some time until the opportune arrival of a sergeant of police from Llangefni, who rescued the ...
... growing interest.-Manchester Courier. Those who are interested in the Dress of the Clergy will find full information gathered together here, and ...