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List of those hanged at Newgate Prison
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Why are you paid for bodies by BMI ?
classic33
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Did a piece in school on the various methods used in days gone by.
Slight concern when I brought the noose in though, along with a list of drop heights
LarryDuff
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[QUOTE 3038603, member: 1314"]Just been reading up on Wallace's execution where he was dragged by his feet to Smithfield from Westminster via the Tower by horses. The journey was extended as not only was it physically excruciating but the streets were full of pig, dog and human excrement and ****.[/QUOTE]
Nothing is too harsh for Mel Gibson.
Nothing is too harsh for Mel Gibson.
Cubist
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A mile and a half from the Gibbet is a place called Salterhebble. If a man could escape the Gibbet and reach the town boundary, the point where it was possible to jump (saltare, Latin) the brook there (the Hebble) he was considered rightly to have earned his freedom.
The Gibbet was also the reason for the reference to Halifax in the Beggars Lament. "From Hull, Hell and Halifax, good Lord deliver us." The reference to Hull was because it was a departure point for deportation to the colonies, although having visited Hull there may be other explanations.
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alans
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Andrew_Culture
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Thanks! It seems like such an elaborate crime!
Yellow Fang
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Talking about Dickens, there was a scene in Great Expectations in which Wemmick introduces Pip to a coiner who was sentenced to hang in Newgate Prison (I think). The book was written about 1860, but set about 1820. This was important to the plot as most of those capital offences were repealed shortly after, hopefully not before Orlick got hanged. There is a reference to someone being hanged for sheep stealing in Middlemarch, which was set about 1830. One of the inspirations for Tess of the d'Urbervilles was a woman Thomas Hardy watched hang in 1860 when he was sixteen for the murder of her husband. That was out in the west country somewhere.
Yellow Fang
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[QUOTE 3037291, member: 1314"]Those are just the list of those named. According to the link it's estimated that Henry VIII executed over 5 people a day during his 38 year reign - 72,000 people.
Blimey.[/QUOTE]
Henry VIII had the last abbot of Reading Abbey hung, drawn and quartered. Nice guy!
Blimey.[/QUOTE]
Henry VIII had the last abbot of Reading Abbey hung, drawn and quartered. Nice guy!
classic33
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T'was quicker to run the other way. Pellon Lane has a pub called the Running Man for that reason. Head for what is now Boothtown and you cross the Hebble at Dean Clough.
Hull's prison came under admirality juristication as a naval prison.
It wasn't the "Beggars Lament" or the "Beggars Litany" that gave rise to the saying "From Hell, Hull and Halifax, Good Lord deliver me." It was the "Thieves Litany"! Often misquoted.
Canrider
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Point of information: AIUI, the 'Long Cross' pennies were introduced to counter clipping, replacing earlier 'Short Cross' pennies where the cross limbs didn't extend right to the edge of the coin.
classic33
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King Davy being held at Illingworth Gaol, on what is now the A629(Wrigley Hill) on his way to York.
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Which still has the bars on the arched window.
classic33
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Yep. Currently being restored. As will the stocks outside
Andrew_Culture
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Things got that bad in that neighbourhood hey?
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