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; the Despencers; Hotspur. Executions for “the --45.” Gibbeting in Jersey. Gallows and Gibbet,--difference between, in England; in France 13-25