1754, 12 ” 249 1757, 12 ” 249 1769, 5 weavers, 255 1773, 5 persons, 258 1780, man for robbing Jeremiah Bentham, 266 1785, 20, 5 for one robbery, 268 frequency of, in 1539, 141-42 under Henry VIII., 142-43 5,000, in Wales, 143 Eye— gallows at, 15 a witch of, 114 Eyes, tearing out of, 56 Farleigh Castle, 124-29 Ferrers, Earl of, murdered (1177), 82 Ferrers, Earl— a homicidal lunatic, 249 his splendid procession, 250 “drop” introduced at his execution, 251 legend of the silk rope, 251 Fielding, Henry,— law reformer, iv, 78 “Jonathan Wild, the Great,” 234 Fielding, Sir John, 259 Fife, Earl of, 104 Fifth-Monarchy men, outbreak of, 193 Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester— attempt to poison, 21-2 and Elizabeth Barton, 133 Fitz-Athulf, Constantine, 83-6, 103 Fitz Osborn (or Osbert), William, known as “Longbeard,” his execution the first recorded at Tyburn, 79, 103 Flaying alive, 24-5 Fleet Street, gallows set up in, 152 “Fleta” quoted, 31 _note_, 37 Forests bordering on highways— cleared, 8, 10 _note_ in England, 7-9 Fortescue, Chief Justice, quoted, iv, 138 France— etiquette of the gallows, 19 hanging on trees, 19 the elm, as a symbol of justice, 57 petty courts, 57 _note_ Franchises— granted by the Crown, 7 value of franchise of furca et fossa, 18 Freeman, Edward Augustus, historian, “Norman Conquest” quoted, 13, 56 French Peasantry, miserable condition of, as compared with English yeomen, 138 Friars— mitigate punishment, vi minorite, plead for Jews of Lincoln, 94-5 lose favour thereby, 95 Froude, James Anthony, historian, “We cannot blame the Government,” 136 Fry, Mrs., quoted, iv “Furca et fossa,” 7 Gahagan, Usher, edits Latin authors, translates Pope into Latin, hanged for filing gold, 242 Gallows— great number of, in 13th century, 7 prioresses have, 7 ordinary form of, 63 triangular, 63-4, 249 how many could be hanged at a time? 64 new, erected at “The Elms” in 1220, 60, 103 at “The Elms” in 1170, 60 great number set up in London in 1554, 152 and bodies of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw, 191 movable, introduced, 249 at Bethnal Green, 255 high gallows, 99, 100-1, 257 And _see_ Tyburn gallows Gascoigne, Chief Justice, on peine forte et dure, 38 Gaunt, Elizabeth, last woman burnt in England for political offence, 207 Geninges, Edmund— “Life and Death” of, 65 manner of his death, 166-67 George I., 217, 219, 227 George II., 218, 219 George III., 219, 262