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In gibet hii were an honge.
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The habit of gibbeting or hanging in chains the body of the executed criminal near the site of the crime, says Dr. Cox,
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History of Hertfordshire. It states,
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Soon after the King came to Easthampstead, to recreate himself with hunting, where he heard that the bodies hanged here were taken down from the gallowes, and removed a great way from the same; this so incensed the King that he sent a writ, tested the 3rd day of August, Anno 1381, to the bailiffs of this borough, commanding them upon sight thereof, to cause chains to be made, and to hang the bodies in them upon the same gallowes, there to remain so long as one piece might stick to another, according to the judgment; but the townsmen, not daring to disobey the King's command, hanged the dead bodies of their neighbours again to their great shame and reproach, when they could not get any other for any wages to come near the stinking carcases, but they themselves were compelled to do so vile an office.
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And so after by the Lawe He was unto the gibbet drawe, Where he above all other hongeth, As to a traitor it belongeth.
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On Fridaye, wrote the Duke of Norfolk,
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The first instance of hanging in chains is in March, 1637, in the case of Macgregor, for theft, robbery, and slaughter; he was sentenced to be hanged in a chenzie on the gallow-tree till his corpse rot.
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Domestic Annals of Scotland.