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Andrews William. Bygone Punishments
Bygone Punishments
Table of Contents
Preface
Bygone Punishments
Hanging
Gallows Customs
Curiosities of the Gallows
Horrors of the Gallows
FOOTNOTES:
Hanging in Chains
Hanging Alive in Chains
FOOTNOTES:
Hanging, Drawing, and Quartering
FOOTNOTES:
Pressing to Death
Drowning
FOOTNOTES:
Burning to Death
FOOTNOTES:
Boiling to Death
Beheading
FOOTNOTES:
The Halifax Gibbet
The Scottish Maiden
FOOTNOTES:
Mutilation
FOOTNOTES:
Branding
FOOTNOTES:
The Pillory
FOOTNOTES:
Punishing Authors and Burning Books
Finger Pillory
The Jougs
FOOTNOTES:
The Stocks
FOOTNOTES:
The Drunkard's Cloak
Whipping and Whipping-Posts
Public Penance
FOOTNOTES:
The Repentance Stool
The Ducking-Stool
FOOTNOTES:
The Brank, or Scold's Bridle
FOOTNOTES:
Riding the Stang
Index
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William Andrews
Published by Good Press, 2019
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A Salford woolcomber named John Grinrod (or Grinret), poisoned his wife and two children in September, 1758, and in the following March was hanged and gibbeted for committing the crime. The gibbet stood on Pendleton Moor. It was a popular belief in the neighbourhood:—
"That the wretch in his chains, each night took the pains,
