Hanging in chains:--At Easthampstead, 15;
at Hull, 16;
at York, _ib._;
in Jersey, 22;
in England, 1631--the usual custom, 27;
in Scotland, 1637, 29;
near Edinburgh, 1688, 30;
noticed in the “Pilgrim’s Progress,” 49;
at Bourne, Cambridgeshire, 53;
at Hampstead, 54;
near Rugby, _ib._;
at Cawood, near York, 55;
near London, 58;
in the Orkneys, 61;
by petition, 64;
at Rye, 66;
at Carlisle, _ib._;
at Rake, Sussex, 67;
at Long Marston, Buckinghamshire, 69;
first legally recognized, 70;
terror evoked at prospect of, 72;
preparation of the body for, 73;
Thames Pirates, 75, 78;
in Epping Forest, _ib._;
near Penrith, 80;
at Tring, 81;
near Wetheral, Cumberland, _ib._;
on Brandon Sands, double gibbet, 82;
near Belper, triple gibbet, 83;
near Chester, 84;
near Warrington, 85;
near Chester, double gibbet, _ib._;
near Midhurst, 86;
examples illustrated by Bewick, 90, 91;
near East Dereham, 93;
near Durham, 95;
at Deal, 96;
near Lincoln, 103;
near Sheffield, _ib._;
in Malta, 106;
in Bengal, _ib._;
at Calcutta, 107;
in Jamaica, _ib._;
ordered near Brigg, but remitted, 108;
on Jarrow Slake, _ib._;
near Leicester, last example of, 110;
abolition of, by Statute, _ib._;
wooden head in memoriam, near Morpeth, 111.
Hanging alive in chains, fable of, 94;
statements of Hollingshed and Chettle, 97;
the fiction examined, and set aside, 99.
Hector, his desire for burial, 8.
High Treason:--Punishment for, 16;
description of, 18;
Statute of 1351, _ib._;
first example of, 1241, _ib._;
Wallace, _ib._;
the Despencers, 19;
Hotspur, _ib._;
executions for “the --45,” 21;
pardon of five gentlemen for, 1447, 22;
definition of, 63;
Jemmy Dawson, 79.
Hollingshed, on hanging alive in chains, 97.
Hotspur, execution and quartering of, 19;
the remains again brought together, _ib._
Jehoiakim, denunciation of, 3.
Jeremiah, prophecy of, 3.
Jersey, hangings in chains in, 22.
Jews, the, treatment of their dead, 4.
Jotham, burial of, 1.
Justice, La, La Grande, 32.
Kerrich, Mr., his sketches, 82.
Leoninus, Albertus, on suicide with the Romans, 10.
Lincoln, the Chapter House at, a criminal court, 107.
Malta, a hand gibbeted, 105;
pirates at, 106.
Marise, William, a pirate, 1241, 18.
Medecis, Catherine de, views Coligny on the gibbet of Montfaucon, 40.
Mezentius, his desire for burial, 7.
Montfaucon, gibbet of, 33.
Montigny, gibbet of, 39.
Norfolk, Duke of, 16.
Northern Rising, 1536, 16.
Northampton, behaviour at, 76.
Our Saviour, gibbeted, 11.
Peine forte et dure, 61, 62.
“Pilgrim’s Progress,” the, hangings in chains in, 49.
Piracy in the Orkneys, 60.
Pirates gibbeted, in Jersey, 22;
on the Thames, 75, 78;
in Malta, 106.
Preacher, the, on lack of burial, 4.
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