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Old and New London
… Strafford, and may therefore be said to have claimed the gallows as his inheritance. Besides, in the "Confessions of …
Old and New London
… and beheaded, their bodies buried in a deep pit under the gallows, and their heads stuck upon the top of Westminster …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… powerless. So they had him brought (insensible) onto the gallows and put him in a chair. So in order to get the rope …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… was not finished until 1858, so the bell was suspended on gallows in Palace Yard, where it was tested for the next …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… right to a tumbrel and pillory, but infangthief, with a gallows. 51 In the 1410s Wicken gallows apparently stood close to the church and manor house. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… upon the waste of the said lordship, and to have a gallows upon the said fee in the parish of St. Clement, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… to say that such expressions would bring him to the gallows: to which he replied that he hoped to see the king …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… view of frankpledge, the assize of bread and of ale, and a gallows. 69In the late 14th century the court usually met …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… the sacrament of the altar, hanged up a dead cat upon the gallows in the parish of S. Matthew in Cheapside, the crown … and a bottle hanged by the same cat upon the said gallows (City Records, Jor. 16, fol. 285 b). 2 From a report …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and castration for the more usual punishment of the gallows, since none 'de nacione istius burgi' ought to be …