NOTE.--Any notice of Gibbets in England would be incomplete without a reference to the _Halifax Gibbet_. This instrument of speedy but rough justice resembles the _Guillotine_. It remained in use until 1650, and records exist showing how numerous were the sufferers under its swift blade. The Earl of Morton, passing through Halifax about the middle of the sixteenth century, witnessed an execution, and is said to have been so much pleased with it that he had a similar machine made for Scotland, where he was Regent. It long remained unused under the name of “The Maiden.” But on June 3, 1587, the Regent was himself executed by it. Thus, as we have it in Hudibras, he “made a rod for his own breech.” The Maiden is now preserved in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, at Edinburgh.--_See_ “Halifax and its Gibbet Law,” &c., 1756. _INDEX._ Achæus, his end, 9. Alfric, Archbishop, Vocabulary of, 13. Amasa, fate of, 5. Anastatius, Saint, martyrdom of, 12. Anglo-Saxons, the; use of gallows with, 13. Azariah, burial of, 1. Baker, the Chief, fate of, 4. Bewick, his woodcuts, 87; his representations of the gibbet, 89, 91. Boiling and quartering, example of, 100. Brunne, Robert, 14. Chains--_see_ Hanging in. Chettle, on hanging alive in chains, 97. Coligny, hung on gibbet of Montfaucon, 40. Colman, Saint, martyrdom of, 12. Constable, Sir Robert, 16. Cross, the, the gibbet, 6, 9; the Christian emblem, 11. David, burial in city of, 1. Despencers, the, execution and quartering of, 19; burial of their remains, _ib._ Douai, gibbet at, 51. Dreghorn, Lord, on hanging in chains in Scotland, 29. Egyptians, the, their treatment of the bodies of criminals, 4. Etruscans, their gibbeting on a cross, 9. Ferreolus, Saint, martyrdom of, 12. _Fourches Patibulaires_, 31. Furca (Gibbet), use of, with the Romans, 11. Galga (Gallows), use of, with the Anglo-Saxons, 13. Gallows and Gibbet, difference between, in England, 25; in France, _ib._ Gallows, the, in England, 14; in Scotland, 29, 30; in France,--_fourches patibulaires_,--31; their monumental character, 32; in Spain, 42; in Holland, 46; at Douai, 51. Germans, the, punishments with, 26. Gibbet of Montfaucon, description of, 33; mode of operation, 35; ancient poetry concerning it, 38; of Montigny, 39; in England, 74; effect on travellers and traffic, _ib._; of Halifax, 114. Gibbet riddle, 104. Gibbeting of animals, in France, 40; in Holland, 45. Gloucester, Robert of, 14. Gower, John, 16. Halifax, gibbet of, 114. Hand gibbeted in Malta, 105.