TAILIEUCHUNG - Bygone Punishments

The usual mode of capital punishment in England for many centuries has been, and still is, hanging. Other means of execution have been exercised, but none have been so general as death at the hands of the hangman. In the Middle Ages every town, abbey, and nearly all the more important manorial lords had the right of hanging, and the gallows was to be seen almost everywhere. Representatives of the church often possessed rights in respect to the gallows and its victims. William the Conqueror invested the Abbot of Battle Abbey with authority to save the life of any malefactor he might find about to be. | Bygone Punishments by William Andrews 1 Bygone Punishments by William Andrews The Project Gutenberg eBook Bygone Punishments by William Andrews This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Bygone Punishments Author William Andrews Release Date June 14 2009 eBook 29117 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BYGONE PUNISHMENTS E-text prepared by Eric Hutton Stephen Blundell and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See or http files 29117 29117-h or http files 29117 Bygone Punishments by William Andrews Transcriber s note 2 Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Significant changes have been listed at the end of the text. Archaic dialect variant and quoted spellings remain as printed. Inconsistent hyphenation has been made consistent except when used for emphasis or within quotations. Non-standard characters are represented as follows represents an inverted asterism a down-pointing triangle of 3 asterisks . oe represents an oe ligature. A carat character A indicates the following character s is are superscripted. BYGONE PUNISHMENTS. Works by William Andrews. Mr. Andrews books are always Bells. No student of Mr. Andrews books can be a dull after-dinner speaker for his writings are full of curious out-of-the-way information and good Daily Gazette. England in the Days of Old. A most delightful Mercury. A valuable contribution to archeological Courant. It is of much value as a book of reference and it .

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