[79] “British Birds,” v. p. 84. [80] In consequence of the rarity of representations of gibbets, it may be desirable to mention other examples in the works of Thomas Bewick, “British Birds,” Edit. 1832, vol. i. In a tailpiece to the account of the Alpine Vulture, p. 53, a gibbet is shown in the distance. Tailpiece to the Introduction to the Shrike, p. 74--a moonlight scene, with a gibbet in the distance; in the foreground a scared old man is terrified by trees and rocks whose forms assume hob-goblin shapes. Tailpiece to the account of the Chatterer, p. 105--Satan sits upon a rock, smoking a pipe, a gibbet in the distance. Tailpiece to the account of the Whitethroat, p. 261--a gibbet in the distance. “Quadrupeds,” first Edit., 1790. Tailpiece to the account of the Arctic Fox, p. 274--a gibbet in the distance; in the foreground two boys hanging a dog. Tailpiece to the account of the Opossum, p. 375--a gibbet in the distance; in the foreground two boys belabouring a donkey. [81] “Notes and Queries,” 1872, vol. x. p. 332. Fourth Series. [82] Ibid., p. 459. [83] “There is a dungeon, in whose dim, drear light What do I gaze on?... An old man and a female young and fair, Fresh as a nursing mother, in whose vein The blood is nectar. Here youth offers to old age the food, The milk of his own gift.... It is her sire To whom she renders back the debt of blood.... Drink, drink and live, old man; heaven’s realm holds no such tide.” “Childe Harold,” iv. st. 148. [84] There is a very circumstantial story of one Ambrose Gwinnett, who, according to his own statement, was hung, and hung in chains at Deal in 1709, and came to life again, and escaped to Florida. But, what is more extraordinary still, he fell in with the very man he was supposed to have murdered, survived him for many years, and long swept the way at Charing Cross. The whole thing is in print, and many people are apt to think that what is “in print” must be true. _See_ “The Life and Strange Voyages and Uncommon Adventures of Ambrose Gwinnett.” London, 1771. [85] Pp. 184-5. [86] C. 4 vers. [87] The hill called Dane John, near Canterbury. [88] Hist. MSS. Comm. 9th Report., App. 158, quoted in “Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries,” p. 260, by F. A. Gasquet. [89] “I saw also that he looked this way and that way, as if he would run; yet he stood still, because (as I perceived) he could not tell which way to go.” (“The Pilgrim’s Progress,” chap. i.) [90] Sir C. H. J. Anderson, Bt. [91] Dr. Donnet. [92] “The Indian Alps,” by A Lady Pioneer, p. 32. [93] “Notes and Queries,” 1873, vol. x. p. 125. Fourth Series. [94] _See_ “Proceedings, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne,” iii. pp. 263, 308. Sykes’s “Local Records,” ii. pp. 365, 388.--Information from Mr. R. Blair. [95] _As You Like It_, Act. ii. sc. 7. [96] “Notes and Queries,” 1883, vol. viii. p. 394. Sixth Series. [97] Sir H. E. L. Dryden, Bt.