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 the mail and murdering the post-boy, and gibbeting. Double Gibbet, 1796. Robbing the mail and hanging in irons, 1799 78-86 CHAPTER IX. Bewick’s illustrations of the Gibbet 87-92 CHAPTER X. Example of Hanging in Chains, 1800. Tradition of Hanging alive in Chains,--Hollingshed, Chettle,--considered, and set aside. Ambrose Gwinnett, 1709. Hanging, Boiling, and Quartering 93-101 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 House at Lincoln a criminal court, 1827; the gibbeting remitted. Example in 1832; severance of last personal link with the Gibbet (April 14, 1891). Last example of Hanging in Chains, 1834. Its abolition by Statute. Gibbet with Wooden Head, _in memoriam_. Conclusion.--The Halifax Gibbet 102-114 LIST OF GIBBETING IRONS AND CHAINS. Ashmolean Museum.--Eight separate portions of Irons found in various parts of Oxford. Some have cylindrical padlocks attached to them. Chester Museum.--A leg-piece. Doddington Hall, Lincoln.--Parts of Tommy Otter’s Irons. _See_ p. 104. Leicester Gaol.--Cook’s Irons. _See_ p. 111. Norwich Gaol.--Watson’s Irons. _See_ p. 94. Norwich Museum.--A Head-piece. Preston.--Irons. Rye, Court Hall.--Breeds’s Irons. _See_ p. 66. _Illustrated._ Skegness Museum.--Irons. Warrington Museum.--Miles’s Irons. _See_ p. 85. _Illustrated._ Winchester.--Irons. In the possession of Lady Dorothy Nevill.--A leg-piece of Carter’s Irons. _See_ p. 68. In the possession of the Rev. J. W. Tottenham.--Two sets of Pirate’s Chains from the Thames. _See_ p. 75. _Illustrated._ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. PIRATE’S CHAINS FROM THE THAMES _Frontispiece_ 2. DECAPITATION } } 3. IMPALEMENT } _Facing page_ 26 } 4. BURNING AT THE STAKE } 5. GIBBET OF MONTFAUCON " 34 6. BREEDS’S IRONS " 66 7. A THAMES PIRATE " 76 8. GIBBET ON BRANDON SANDS " 82 9. MILES’S IRONS " 85 10. GIBBET FROM BEWICK " 91 11. IRON CAGE FROM BENGAL " 106 HANGING IN CHAINS. Chapter I.