Quartering:--At Carlisle in 1536, 16; of a pirate, in 1241, 18; of Wallace, _ib._; the Despencers, 19; Hotspur, _ib._; for “the --45,” 21. Rack, the, 62. Rizpah, watches of, 5, 6. Rhodez, Count of, his seizing of justice, 31. Robbing the mail, 83, 85, 86. Romans, the, their dread of exposure, 9; their use of the furca, or gibbet, 11; their laws as to gibbeting, 72. Saints, gibbeted, 12. Smugglers, gibbeted, 67. Standing Mute, 61, 62. Statute of Westminster the First, 1277, 14; of treason, of Edward III., 1351, 18; of George II., 1752, 70, 72; of William IV., 1834, 110. Tarquinius Priscus, orders gibbeting on a cross, 9. Thames Pirates, 75; chains of, _ib._ Villon (Corbeuil), his poetry on the gibbet of Montfaucon, 38. Vincent, Saint, martyrdom of, 12. Voltaire, his gallows at Ferney, 31. Wallace, execution and quartering of, 18. Weever, on punishment for treason, murder, &c., 27; on hanging in chains, _ib._ Witchcraft, 68. Women, punishment of, in England, 52; in France, 53. UNWIN BROTHERS, PRINTERS, CHILWORTH AND LONDON. FOOTNOTES: [1] Psa. cxxvii. 2. [2] Deut. xxi. 22, 23. [3] Jer. xxii. 19. [4] Jer. xix. 7. [5] Deut. xxviii. 26. [6] Jer. viii. 2. [7] Jer. xxxvi. 30. [8] Eccles. vi. 3. [9] Gen. xl. 19. [10] 2 Sam. xxi. 10. [11] 2 Sam. xx. 12. [12] Smith’s “Dict. of the Bible,” s.v. Rizpah. [13] Of justice, in that earth should be returned to earth, and dust to dust, for what could be more just than to restore to mother earth her children, ... that she might at last receive them again into her bosom, and afford them lodging till the resurrection? The ancients also thought it an act of mercy to hide the dead in the earth, that the organs of such divine souls might not be torn and devoured by wild beasts, birds, &c. T. Greenhill, “ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ,” p. 33. [14] Dryden’s “Translation”--Æneid, lib. ix. v. 901. Nullum in cœde nefas nec sic ad prœlia veni Nec tecum meus hæc pepigit mihi fœdera Lausus Unum hoc, per, si qua est victis venia hostibus oro; Corpus humo patiare tegi: scio acerba meorum Circumstare odia: hunc, oro, defende furorem, Et me consortem nati concede sepulchro. [15] Dryden’s “Translation”--Æneid, lib. xii. v. 935. Et me, seu corpus spoliatum lumine mavis, Redde meis. [16] Τὸν δ' ὀλιγοδρανέων προσέφη κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ· Λίσσομ' ὑπὲρ ψυχῆς, καὶ γούνων, σῶν τε τοκήων, Μή με ἔα παρὰ νηυσὶ κύνας καταδάψαι Ἀχαιῶν· Ἀλλὰ σὺ μὲν χαλκόν τε ἅλις χρυσόν τε δέδεξο, Δῶρα, τά τοι δώσουσι πατὴρ καὶ πότνια μήτηρ· Σῶμα δὲ οἴκαδ' ἐμὸν δόμεναι πάλιν, ὄφρα πυρός με Τρῶες καὶ Τρώων ἄλοχοι λελάχωσι θανόντα. --Hom. Il. xxii. 337-343. [17] Lib. 36, cap. 15. [18]