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A History of the County of Berkshire
… who showed sympathy with the rebels was hanged on a new gallows set up at the end of the drawbridge across the castle …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… registers record the burial of executed criminals. The gallows stood on the river bank a little below the Horseshoe … 612. Anon. late 18th-century diary in Wisb. Mus. The gallows is said to have been rebuilt after 1758 with timber …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bishops of Winchester are not known to have had right of gallows at Witney. 140 Criminals' goods seem sometimes to … Below, Curbridge, intro. (roads); for the bishop's gallows at Adderbury, VCH Oxon. ix. 21. e.g. Oxon. Eyre, 1241 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of court, infangthief and outfangthief, pillory, and gallows. 95 The grant of the manor to George Owen in 1541 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The lord of the manor had right of gallows, pillory, and tumbril in the late 13th century 39 and … not having a pillory or a tumbril. 41 The lord's right to gallows was possibly recalled by the Hanging Acre recorded in …
A History of the County of Essex
… for correction and punishment, such as tumbrel and gallows, while such offenders as could not be dealt with at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… There was a 'place of execution of felons', presumably a gallows, outside the southern entrance to the town in 1583. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Stanton Harcourt, and at Eynsham by the abbot. Gallows were claimed at Deddington and Eynsham, and a view … of the earl of Chester's influence, the lord claimed gallows and a view without interference from the hundred …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… weight of plate was sent off under the same escort. A gallows was erected in the market-place, for the execution of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… the bound of Kilton, from the water unto the way under the gallows, towards the south, and by the crosses which he …