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A History of the County of Lancaster
… geard = A.S. an enclosure. Cf. grind-gardr, Old Norse = a hurdle or lattice fence. Harl. MS. 2112, 145 b. Ibid. Lancs. …
Calendar of Treasury books
… on account of above, including charge of gallows and hurdle at Garstang, and of George Rishton attending a bailiff …
Old and New London
… Eleanor, widow of Edward II., was dragged thither on a hurdle, and hung and quartered, his body being exposed there … and Chief Justice Hyde sentenced him to be "drawn on a hurdle to Tyburn, and there hanged by the neck;" and, being …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… were subsequently quartered, beheaded, and drawn on the hurdle. Very great vengeance was taken on them, and his …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Street (now George Street), and Carrion Close and the old hurdle house in the Common Close were let. 10 By 1839 this …