Gibbet— always remote from towns, and why, 62-3 scanty information as to, 62 term used loosely, 62 of Montfaucon, 63 mention of, 86-7, 88, 100 Gibbets on Kennington Common (illustration) Gilpin, Bernard, “Apostle of the North,” on rapacity of landlords, 139 Glastonbury Abbey, Charter of, 13 Gloucester, Duke of, murdered, 108, 116 Gloucester, statute of, 14 Godfrey, Sir Edmund Berry, 178 probably self-murdered, 200 supposed murder used politically, 200 three men hanged for his murder, 201 Goodman, Thomas— Parliament petitions for his execution, 184 dies in Newgate, 184 Governing classes, ferocity of, 78, 246-48, 257-58 Governments, under temptation to appeal to ignorance of people, 156-57 Green, J. R., historian, quoted, 56 Greenford, gallows at, 15 Gregory’s Chronicle, 63, 91 _note_, 110 _note_, 111-12 Grey, Lady Jane, 151 Guilds— older than King Alfred, 140 destroyed, 140 Guillotine, machine resembling, in use in England before the Conquest, 23 Gunpowder Plot, 66 _note_ does not come into Annals of Tyburn, 176 Habeas Corpus— not suspended by Charles II., 218 nor by James II., 219 suspended by William III. four times, 219 suspended by Anne once, 219 suspended by George I. thrice, 219 suspended by George II. four times, 219 suspended by George III. twenty times, 219 insincere writing about, 219 _note_ Halifax, machine resembling guillotine in use at, 23 Hallam, Henry, historian, on habeas corpus, 219 _note_ Halliford, gallows at, 16 Hampstead, gallows at, 16 “Hanged, drawn and quartered,” _see_ “Drawing” Hanging— at Spalding, 19 on trees, 19, 137 in chains, 80, 99, 236, 246, 247 from a ladder, 135, 225 from a cart, 225 not enough, essays on the question, 246-47 revival after, _see_ Revival Hanging-Sword Alley, 241-42 Hangman— several hanged, 3, 45-8 public ingratitude towards, 44 Cratwell, 45, 145 “Hangman with the stump-leg,” 45, 155 Bull, 45 Derrick, 45 Brandon, Gregory, 45, 46 Brandon, Richard, 46 Lowen, 46, 188 Dun “Esquire,” 46 Ketch, Jack, 46, 47, 207 his name became generic, 47 Rose, Pascha, 46, 207 Price, John, 47, 228 Meff, John, 47 Thrift, John, 48 Dennis, Edward, 48 and Jonathan Wild, 235 Hanover Square, 69 _note_ Harington, William, manner of his death, 167 Harrison, William, historian— his “Description of England,” 21-4, 22 _note_, 38-9, 40 misquotes Cardan, 142-43 Hawes, Nathaniel, put in the Press, 41 Hay Hill, Hyde Park, gallows set up at, 152 Hays, Catherine— murders her husband, 235-36 inspires Thackeray’s “Catherine, A Story,” 236