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A History of the County of Essex
… been a much larger green. Stratford green was also called Gallows green, probably from the gallows set up in the 13th century by Richard de Montfitchet. …
A History of the County of Essex
… ale on his manor in East and West Ham. 1 He also set up gallows, probably at Gallows (later Stratford) Green. 2 In 1285 the abbot of …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Wheathampstead. In 1427 the abbot of Westminster erected a gallows here, which the servants of St. Albans Abbey promptly …
Old and New London
… Scot, but it was impossible to keep him from the gallows. Robert Creighton, Lord Sanquhar, therefore, …
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, …