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Commentaries, published in 1769, clearly states that a criminal was suspended in chains after execution. Holinshed, who died about the year 1580, in his famous
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Chronicle of England, a work which supplied Shakespeare with materials for historical dramas, states:--
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In wilful murder done upon pretended (premeditated) malice, or in anie notable robbery, the criminal is either hanged alive in chains near the place where the act was committed, or else, upon compassion taken, first strangled with a rope, and so continueth till his bones come to nothing. Where wilful manslaughter is perpetrated, besides hanging, the offender hath his right hand commonly stricken off.
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England's Mourning Garment, written by Henry Chettle, a poet and dramatist, born about the year 1540, and who died in 1604. He lived in the days of Queen Elizabeth.
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But for herselfe, wrote Chettle,
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This subject is fully discussed in _Notes and Queries_, 4th series, volumes X. and XI. A work entitled
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Hanging in Chains,