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Old and New London
… that in Cheapside there had been but a little before a gibbet set up, and the picture of Huson hung upon it in the … and smoking from the fire, was sentenced to be hung on a gibbet at the Smithfield Elms. For all this, the fermentation …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… it was lifted and placed in Devizes museum. 22 In 1773 a gibbet stood east of Oldbury castle and on or near Cherhill's …
Old and New London
… the moon in her wane, the map of the globe burning, a gibbet falling and the body dropping down, Phbus and his …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Gallow Drum; and near the glebe land is another, styled Gibbet Know: both are supposed to have been places of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the possibility that Gib's cross preserved the memory of a gibbet. 46 In the 18th century another road, whose precise …
Survey of London
… lights for sixty-eight transome windows cost 65 6s. A gibbet in the warehouse to hang a beame [scale] cost 2 10s. …
The Diary of Henry Machyn
… so to Ottland, and to Gy[lford.] chains. squibs. colours. gibbet. i. e. genealogy. mayor. i. e. as great a dinner. …
A History of the County of Chester
… lack of ships. To contain it, in 1594 the mayor erected a gibbet at the High Cross. 2 Chester's military obligations …