Chapter 15
Gibbet and gallows in Ogilby's book, 39
Gibbet, cost of, 56
Gipsies, 138
Glasgow brank, 276
Gloucester, Duke of, 228
Godly butchery, 79
Gretton stocks, 195
Grey, Lady Jane, 109
Grinrod's ghost, 51-53
Haddon Hall, curious relic at, 208
Halifax gibbet, 118-127
Hanging, 1-38
Hanging, drawing, and quartering, 79-86
Hanging in chains, 39-78
Hangman's dues, 25-29
Hardwick, forest of, 118-127
Harris, Ph[oe]be, 104
Harvest workmen and stocks, 200
Hayes, Catherine, 101
Hedon, riding stang at, 303; thewe at, 245
Helsby Tor, gibbet on, 64
Henry II., penance of, 226
Henry IV. of Germany, 228
Henry VIII., hanging reign, 3
Hereford, executions at, 30
Hertfordshire, gibbets in, 42, 50
Hind Head, gibbet at, 61-63
Holinshed's Chronicle, 118-119
Holland, drunkard's cloak in, 205
Horne, W. A., 16
Hornsea pennels, 55
Howard, Katherine, 109, 111
Hoyle's drawing of Halifax gibbet, 124
Hull ducking-stool, 256; gibbet, 43; Mayor, 4; penance, 232; pillory, 151; Prayer Book burnt, 163
Humber, Admiral of, 4
Insufficiency of pillory, action for, 157
Ipswich ducking-stool, 262-264, 265
Jarrow, gibbet at, 73-75
Jedburgh, 240
Jeffreys, Judge, 217
Jews hanged, 2
Johnson, Dr. S., 243
Jougs, the, 176-185
Keach, Benjamin, 164-166
Killed in the pillory, 156
Kilmarnock, Earl of, 115
Kilmaurs, jougs at, 183
King of the Peak, 5
King's Lynn, boiling to death, 106-107; burning to death, 99; ducking-stool, 266
Kingston-upon-Thames ducking-stool, 270
Kirkby ducking-stool, 261
Kirkham brank, 285
Kirton-in-Lindsey whipping-post, 223-224
Knaresborough Forest, Aram gibbeted at, 55
Labienus, 160
Lancaster Castle, 140
Last person burnt, 104
Last public execution, 38
Laud, Archbishop, 114
Leeds ducking-stool, 257
Legend of the hare, 8
Leicester brank, 292; cucking-stool, 244; ducking-stool, 271; gibbet, 75
Leighton, Dr., 162
Leominster ducking-stool, 271
Lesmahagow, jougs at, 182
Lichfield brank, 287
Lilburne, 163
Lincoln, burning to death at, 100
Lingard, Anthony, gibbeted, 68-71
Littlecote Hall, finger-pillory at, 172
Liverpool ducking-stool, 268
Lochcarron, penance at, 242
London, jougs at, 177
Lovat, Lord, 116-117
Ludlow brank, 295
Lynch law, 5
Macclesfield brank, 276, 282, 284
Mails, gibbeted for robbing, 60, 64, 70, 72
Manchester brank, 285; ducking-stool, 268; pillory, 152
Maritime laws, 3-5
Marlowe, Christopher, 161
Market Drayton brank, 297; stocks, 194
Mary Queen of Scots, execution of, 109
Melton Ross, gallows at, 8-11
Merrington, gibbet at, 44
Merton, jougs at, 183
Methven, Paul, 240
Midgley, Dr. S., 124
Miles's gibbet, 64-67
Milton's books burnt, 162
Misson on the ducking-stool, 246
Monasteries and the poor, 209
Monmouth, Duke of, 115
More, Sir Thomas, 111
Morley brank, 277; ducking-stool, 259
Morpeth brank, 286
Morton, Earl of, 128-131
Murphy, last person burnt, 105
Mutilation, 134-137
Nayler, Jas., 138-139
Neglecting to attend church, 183
Nevison, 278
Newbury stocks, 197
Newcastle-on-Tyne, brank at, 202; cruel magistrates, 204; drunkard's cloak at, 201-205; pillory, 150
Newcastle-under-Lyme brank, 287-288
Norfolk, Duke of, 112
North Aston, penance at, 234
North Briton, the, 169
North Cave, penance of Vicar, 232
Northallerton, riding stang at, 302
Northampton, branding, 141; hanging, 37; woman burnt to death, 101
Northumberland, Duke of, 112
Norwich ducking-stool, 264
Not raising his bonnet, 178
Nottingham brank, 292; ducking-stool, 265; funeral sermons, 34; hanging, 16; whipping, 219
Numa Pompilius, 159
Oates, Titus, 149
Ockam in the pillory, 145
Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 239
Ordeal of touch, 7
Oswestry brank, 296
Oxford brank, 294
Paisley, books burnt, 170; execution, 25; penance at, 241;
Parish registers at Halifax, 125
Paulmy, pillory at, 145-146
Peine forte et dure, 87-94
Pendleton Moor, gibbet at, 51-53
Pentrich, plot planned at, 80
Pepys, S., 148
Pillory, the, 143-158
Pirate gibbeted at Hornsea, 55
Plymouth ducking-stools, 266-268
Popish plot, 149
Prayer Book burnt, 163
Prayers at St. Sepulchre's Church, 13
Pressing to death, 87-94
Preston brank, 286; pillory, 152
Prynne, W., 163
Public executions, 38
Public penance, 227-238
Punishing Authors and Burning Books, 159-170
Pythagoras, 159
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 113
Ratcliff Highway, 247
Refusing to plead, 87-94
Repentance stool, 239-242
Riddle, a grim, 58
Riding the stang, 299-306
Ridware Beaudesart brank, 287
Rioting at executions, 14-16
Rizzio, murder of, 131
Rochester, Bishop of, 106-111
Rochford, Viscountess, 111
Rome, books burnt at, 159
Romilly, Sir Samuel, advocates humane reforms, 86
Roose boiled to death, 106
Ross, Sir William, 9
Rothesay, 179
Roxby, penance at, 233
Rugby ducking-stool, 254
Rushmere Heath, burning to death on, 103
Rye, gibbeting at, 48; pillory 154
Sabbath-breaking, 190
Sack-cloth, 239
Saddler of Bawtry, 12
Salisbury, Countess of, 112
Sancton, penance at, 237
Sandwich, drowning at, 96; ducking-stool, 248
Scarborough ducking-stool, 262-263
Scotch pedlars whipped, 216
Scotland, drowning, 96; gibbeting, 43; stocks in, 190
Scottish Maiden, 128-133
Scrooby, gibbet at, 59
Second statute of labourers, 187
Selby ducking-stool, 258
Servants, whipping, 224-226
Seymour, Lord, 112
Shakespeare and the stocks, 188-189
Shelley on an execution, 84
Shooting at a gibbeted man, 59
Shore, Jane, penance of, 230-232
Shrewsbury brank, 296
Shropshire Assizes, 136; gibbet, 46
Shrouds of condemned criminals, 34
Silken rope, 17-18
Sixteen-string Jack, 14
Skimmington-riding, 303
Skipton ducking-stool, 260; stocks, 198
Slaves branded, 138
Slight offences, executions for, 30
Somerset, Duke of, 112
Southam ducking-stool, 251
Splicing the rope, 25
St. Andrews, boy punished, 178; brank, 298
St. Paul's Churchyard, books burnt in, 160
St. Giles's bowl, 11
Stafford, Viscount, 114
Staffordshire branks, 287
Stanfield, Philip, 43
Stanningley stocks, 196
Stockport brank, 282; stocks, 200
Stocks, the, 186-200
Stokesley, penance at, 235-237
Stow, penance at, 241
Strafford, Earl of, 114
Strangeways, Major, 92-93
Stubbs, 161
Suffolk, Duke of, 112
Surrey, Earl of, 112
Sutton, riding stang at, 301
Swimming a witch, 50
Taylor on Halifax law, 122; on whipping-posts, 211
Thewe, 245
Thurlow, Lord, on the pillory, 155
Tolbooth, Edinburgh, 129
Tower of London, 110
Tring, gibbet at, 50-51
Tudor manners, 177
Tumbrel, 268
Tutor's Assistant, drawing by Cruikshank, 226
Tyburn, 11
Tyrwhitt, Robert, 9
Uckington Heath, gibbet on, 46
Upton Common, gibbet, 63
Vagrancy, 210
Vernon, Sir George, 5
Wakefield ducking-stool, 258; jougs, 184; penance, 234; whipping, 220
Wallingford pillory, 244
Walsall brank, 287, 288
Waltham Abbey whipping-post, pillory and stocks, 211-214
Walton-on-Thames, brank at, 278
Wardlow, gibbet at, 71
Warrington brank, 285; museum, 67
Warton, 165
Warwick, tumbrel at, 270
Wedding clothes, executed in, 17
Welsh customs, 305
West Calder, 239
Whip-cord, torturing with, 89
Whipping Act, 210
Whipping and Whipping-Posts, 209-226
Whiston stocks, 192
Whitchurch brank, 297
Whitfield, notorious highwayman, 58
Wigtown, hangman at, 18; last execution at, 21; jougs, 179
William the Conqueror introduces beheading, 108
Williams, bookseller, 169-170
Wilson, Alexander, 170
Winchester, coiners punished at, 135
Wirksworth, penance at, 233
Witchcraft, 50; burning to death for, 99
Wolsey, Cardinal, in the stocks, 193
Women drowned, 95; whipped, 218
Wootton Bassett, tumbrel at, 268-269
Worcester, 115, 217-218, 296
Worsborough ducking-stool, 259
Yarmouth, pirate gibbeted at, 67
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