[206] Hanging on the triangular gallows at Tyburn was effected by placing the sufferer, with the rope round his neck, on a cart. This being drawn from under him, he was left hanging. Elsewhere the usual way was to make the sufferer mount a ladder, which was turned, so leaving him suspended. When several persons were executed in this way, they were hanged, not simultaneously, but one after the other. [207] 48ᵒ Regis Henrici Tertii. Pardonatio concessa Ivettæ de Balsham eo quod suspense fuit pro quadam felonia ab hora nona die Lunæ usque ortum solis diei Martis sequent et tamen viva evasit, apud Cantuar 16ᵒ Augusti. Cal. Rot. Patentium (1802), p. 34. [208] The punishment of the pillory for fraudulent bankruptcy was previously enacted by 1 James I. c. 15, s. 4. [209] According to Monsieur César de Saussure, who was in England in 1726, the weight was increased every four hours (“Lettres et Voyages,” pp. 126-7). [210] Villette, (“Annals of Newgate,” i. 16-24). An account of the origin and development of this practice has been given on pp. 36-43. [211] Swift wrote some verses on Blueskin. [212] “An Enquiry into the Causes of the frequent Executions at Tyburn,” 1725. [213] Pope, in his “Dunciad” speaks of “⸺hymning Tyburn’s elegiac lines” (i. 41). [214] In 1810 the Archbishop of Canterbury and six Bishops voted against Romilly’s Bill to abolish capital punishment for stealing privately in a shop to the value of five shillings (“Life of Romilly,” ii. 130). [215] This is the Shoplifting Act. It is also frequently cited as 10 & 11 Will. III., c. 23. INDEX Abbey lands, 157 ab Ulmis, John, an imported preacher, 142 a Lasco, John, an imported preacher, 142 Æthelstan, laws of, 19, 56 Alfred, laws of, 55 Aliens Act of 1905 anticipated, 147 Amos, Andrew, his “Great Oyer of Poisoning,” 178, 181 Anabaptists— Commission to try, 158 Latimer jeers at their constancy, 158 burnt, 177 Anglo-Saxon penal legislation, 55 Arians burnt, 177 Ascham, Roger, on destruction of Yeomanry, 140 Assassination Plot, 215-16 strange sequel to, 216-19 Athol, Earl of, hanged on a high gallows, 101 Bacon, Francis, in trial of Robert Carr, 181, 22 _note_ Bagshot Heath, gibbet on, 211 Ball, John, and revolt of the peasants, 106 Barclay, Alexander, “Ship of Fools,” iv, 140 _note_ Barkworth, Mark, manner of his death, 173 Barton, Elizabeth, “The Holy Maid of Kent,” 133 Bassompierre, Maréchal de, 66 Bedloe, William, perjurer, dies, 202 Beheading, 31-4 Bentham, Jeremy, 78 his father robbed, 266 Bernardi, Major John— imprisoned without trial for forty years, 216 Dr. Johnson on, 217 dies in prison, 218 Bethnal Green— weavers of, riotous, 254-55 two weavers hanged near church, 255 constitutional question arises, 255