Category: History - British
Gibbeting and exposure with the ancient Jews; their strong desire for burial, and abhorrence at being cast out,--exemplified from the Scriptures,--David, Jotham, Azariah; Jehoiakim. Gibbeting with the Egyptians; the Chief Baker. The watches of Rizpah; the seven crosses. Desire...
Towards the year 1808 a man named Thomas Otter, _alias_ “Tom Temporal,” was hung at Lincoln for the murder of a woman with whom he cohabited there. It appears that she had follo...
13. Chapter III.Whilst such horrors were going on in England we may be sure that the Germans, with their dogged brutality, were not behind-hand. With them the bodies of traitors and highwaymen,...
11. Chapter I.To rest at last in the ground, to be buried in the sepulchre of their fathers, was accounted by the Jews as the greatest honour and happiness, and throughout the Old Testament t...
12. Chapter II.Hence, as we have seen, gradually arose, side by side with the capital punishment of hanging on the gallows in its simplicity--which may be almost said to be as old as the world...
15. Chapter V.“Now I saw in my dream, that they went on until they were come to the place that Simple, and Sloth, and Presumption, lay and slept in, when Christian went by on pilgrimage: and...
16. Chapter VI.It will be recollected that one of the most interesting of Sir Walter Scott’s novels, “The Pirate,” is founded upon a case of piracy in the Orkneys, in 1725.[48] The captain, Jo...
20. Chapter X.About the year 1800 a man named Watson was executed at Lynn for the murder of his wife and child. The body was taken to Bradenham Heath, and there gibbeted in irons. Some few ye...
18. Chapter VIII.In 1752 Captain Lowry suffered at Execution Dock, and was hung in chains by the side of the Thames, doubtless for piracy; and in the same year John Swan was executed at Chelmsfo...
17. Chapter VII.By this time, as we have seen, it had gradually become usual for the court, in atrocious cases, to direct that the murderer’s body should be hung upon a gibbet in chains, near t...
14. Chapter IV.“Where, when come, I espied over my head, opposite to the great Altar, two milk-white Hens enravelled in an Iron Cage, on the inner-side of the Porches _Promontore_. And demandi...
19. Chapter IX.Few persons of taste have failed to make themselves acquainted with the works of Bewick, the father of English wood-engraving. In them we have everything the most truthful and p...
10. CHAPTER XI.Example of Hanging in Chains, 1808. Gibbet riddle. Spence Broughton. Hanging in Chains at Malta. A Hand gibbeted. Supposed Gibbeting alive in Bengal, and in Jamaica. The Chapter...
1. CHAPTER I.Gibbeting and exposure with the ancient Jews; their strong desire for burial, and abhorrence at being cast out,--exemplified from the Scriptures,--David, Jotham, Azariah; Jehoia...
7. CHAPTER VII.Gibbeting in Chains first legally recognized, 1752; but not part of the sentence. Roman law concerning Gibbeting. Its rapid increase in England. Terror at prospect of Gibbet and...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Examples of Hangings in Chains, 1752-1777. Jemmy Dawson. Double Gibbet,--Mr. Kerrich’s sketches. Robbing the mail,--triple gibbet. Robbing the mail and gibbeting, 1788; Robbing...
2. CHAPTER II.Gibbeting with the Anglo-Saxons; Hanging in Chains. High Treason,--punishment for,--examples in fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. Drawing and Quartering. Wallace;...
3. CHAPTER III.Punishments and gibbeting in Germany; in England, in seventeenth century; in Scotland,--Treason and Chains. The Gibbet in France; _Fourches Patibulaires_ of Montfaucon,--La Gran...
6. CHAPTER VI.Piracy, 1725. Sir Walter Scott. “Standing Mute.” Squeezing the Thumbs. _Peine forte et dure_, example of, 1674. The Rack. Burning alive. High Treason,--defined. Petition for Han...
9. CHAPTER X.5. CHAPTER V.4. CHAPTER IV.