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 "Mr. Andrews' books are always interesting."--_Church Bells._ "No student of Mr. Andrews' books can be a dull after-dinner speaker, for his writings are full of curious out-of-the-way information and good stories."--_Birmingham Daily Gazette._
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