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The life, trial, and behaviour of Ralph Smith, who was executed upon Lincoln Gallows, March, 16th. 1792. for the murder of Gentle Sutton.
Smith, Ralph, -1792.Date: 1792?]- Books
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The Lives, trials, and behaviour at the place of execution, of the two unfortunate men who suffered death this day upon Lincoln Gallows; William Campwell for forgery, and John Betts for horse-stealing. ...
Date: [1791]- Books
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An elegy on the death of Mr. Jo. Poe, who unfortunately departed this Life at Kilmainham Gallows, October the 20th. 1725. with a Concise Character of his Life, &c. Written the Day before his Execution.
Date: 1725]- Books
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A garland of new songs. Containing 1. The happy Shepherd. 2. The Maids Resolution to marry a Soldier. 3. The deploring Damsel. 4. The Blooming Damsel. 5. Loose every Sail to the Creeze. 6. The Gallows Whore.
Date: 1780?]- Books
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Some particulars relating to the life of William Dillon Sheppard, Who was executed at St. Michael's Hill Gallows, for sodomy, on Monday the 1st of June, 1761. Published at his own request, and by the authority of the sheriff.
Date: [1761]- Books
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Calumny detected, and malice defeated: being a succinct and just account of certain late endeavours against Mr. J. J. Sherenbeck, of Plymouth, merchant, tending to destroy his reputation and ruin himself: But which have providentially proved abortive, and the Shame laid at the Adversary's own Door. In which is contained, at large, the last and dying declaration of Edward Kennedy, who was executed at Heavytree-Gallows, on Friday April 11, 1760: Taken directly from his own Mouth, and attested by him at the Place of Execution to the last. By a friend to truth, and an enemy to no man's person.
Friend to truth.Date: [1760]- Pictures
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The bodies of two men and a skeleton hanging on a gallows; representing the status of the triad. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
Date: [1800?]Reference: 2199927i- Books
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A dialogue between the gallows and a freethinker.
Berington, Simon, 1680-1755.Date: [1744]- Pictures
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The temporary gallows in the Old Bailey, north of Newgate. Engraving with etching.
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The temporary gallows in the Old Bailey, north of Newgate. Engraving with etching.
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Praying priests holding their prayer books are led to the gallows. Line engraving.
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The prison and the gallows : the politics of mass incarceration in America / Marie Gottschalk.
Gottschalk, MarieDate: 2006- Books
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An elegy wrote under a gallows. With a preface concerning the nature of elegy.
Date: [1768?]- Pictures
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Execution of Bulgarians on makeshift gallows in the streets of Adrianople, Turkey. Wood engraving.
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The mayor of Bodmin is escorted to the gallows to be hanged. Wood engraving.
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Hangmen, the gallows and the dead man's hand in American folk medicine / [Wayland D. Hand].
Hand, Wayland D. (Wayland Debs), 1907-1986Date: 1980- Books
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News from the dead, or a faithful and genuine narrative of an extraordinary combat between life and death, exemplified in the case of William Duell, One of the Malefactors who was executed at Tyburn on Monday the 24th of this instant November, for a Rape, Robbery and Murder, and who soon after return'd to life at Barber-Surgeon's-Hall, where he had been brought too from the Place of Execution, in Order to be Anatomiz'd. With a true Account Of all the Particulars that happen'd to him, and the many surprizing Things he saw during the Interval of Time that passed between his being turned off at the Gallows, and his Recovery to Life. The whole taken from his own mouth in Newgate, where he now lies.
Duell, William.Date: [1740]- Pictures
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Titus Oates is standing in the pillory while two men drive a cart with gallows past him. Mezzotint.
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Victorians against the gallows : capital punishment and the abolitionist movement in nineteenth century Britain / James Gregory.
Gregory, James (Historian)Date: 2012- Pictures
A gallows, a weathervane, a beacon, a large eye, and other objects; below, black hillocks with vegetation. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 20th Jan. 55 [20 January 1955]Reference: 2958271iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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Double picture: a person hanging from the gallows; a witch burning a sleeping couple while a demon figure carries off a child. Woodcut, 1790.
Date: 1720Reference: 33295i- Pictures
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A Turkish man seated on a stool near a gallows prepares a noose inscribed "Declaration of war against the Allies". Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
Racey, A. G. (Arthur George), 1870-1941.Date: 1910-1919Reference: 571975i- Pictures
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A Chinese man confined to a contraption which ties his legs on to a wooden gallows whilst pinning his head firmly to the ground. Watercolour drawing.
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A crowd of spectators wait as Tom Idle is driven in a cart with his coffin to his place of execution and the gallows. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1747.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 30 September 1747Reference: 43611iPart of: Industry and idleness- Books
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The Bristol garland. Entituled, The afflicted parents; or, The undutiful child punished. In two parts. Part, first. Shewing how a gentleman living in the city of Bristol, who had two children, viz, one, a son, and the other a daughter, which was about two years younger than the son; giving an account how the girl gave good advice to her brother, and how he rejected it and knock'd her down, left her for dead, and then went away; how the angel appeared to him, and how he was taken up try'd, cast and condemn'd to die part, second. Shewing, how he was executed at the Gallows with two highwaymen, and being all cut down together, how his parents got him cariried home and prepared for his funeral; as also how his mother observ'd him to breath, and he was brought to life again, and how he was executed a second time, being a warning to all disobedient children to their parents. To which is added, the Prince of Orange's letter to a Princess Royal. Licens'd and enter'd according to order.
Date: 1733?]