Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Tyburn gallows (London, England)
[74] Stow’s “Survey,” ed. Thoms, p. 161.
[75] Grey Friars’ Chron., ed. Howlett, pp. 199, 200.
[76] Ellis, “Original Letters,” 1824, ii. 298.
[77] Challoner’s “Memoirs of Missionary Priests,” 1842, pt. ii. p. 37.
[78] Laws of Alfred, in Thorpe’s “Anc. Laws and Inst. of England,” fo.
ed., p. 42.
[79] Thorpe, p. 97.
[80] Laws of William the Conqueror, De Suppliciorum modo: “Interdicimus
eciam ne quis occidatur vel suspendatur pro aliqua culpa, sed enerventur”
(other texts have “eruantur”) “oculi, et abscindantur pedes, vel
testiculi, vel manus, ita quod truncus remaneat vivus, in signum
prodicionis et nequicie sue: secundum enim quantitatem delicti debet pena
maleficis infligi. Ista precepta non sint violata super forisfacturam
nostram plenam. Testibus, &c.” (Thorpe, “Ancient Laws and Institutes of
England,” fol. ed., p. 213).
[81] Chron. Roger de Hoveden, ed. Stubbs, i. 165.
[82] Chron. Benedict of Peterborough, ed. Stubbs, ii. 59.
[83] “En France … nous voyons aujourd’huy, qu’il n’y a presque si petit
Gentil-homme, qui ne prétend avoir en propriété la Justice de son village
ou hameau; tel même qui n’a ni village, ni hameau, mais un moulin ou une
basse court près sa maison, veut avoir Justice sur son meusnier, ou sur
son fermier: tel encore qui n’a ni basse court ni moulin; mais le seul
enclos de sa maison, veut avoir Justice sur sa femme et sur son valet:
tel finalement qui n’a point de maison, prétend avoir Justice en l’air
sur les oyseaux du Ciel disant en avoir eu autrefois.” Loyseau, Charles,
“Discours de l’abus des Justices de Village,” p. 1 (in Œuvres).
[84] Stanley, “Hist. Mem. of Westminster Abbey,” ed. 1882, p. 354;
Brayley, “Londiniana,” iv. 215; “Arch. Cantiana,” vii. 96, 97.
[85] Placita de Quo Waranto, p. 479.
[86] Maitland, “History of London,” ii. 1363; Parton, “Some Account of
the Hospital and Parish of St. Giles,” p. 38.
[87] Thus Sir John Oldcastle was executed here in 1417, and those
implicated in Babington’s conspiracy in 1586, but in each case there were
special reasons for the selection of St. Giles’s.
[88] Placita de Quo Waranto, p. 479.
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