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Hanging of Hibbins on Boston Common, June 19, 1656.Sketch by F.T. Merril, 1886. Ann Hibbins (also spelled Hibbons or Hibbens) was a woman executed for witchcraft in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on June 19, 1656.
The paper on the floor at the feet of the Countess next to the vial is the handbill/broadsheet giving the notice of the execution of Silvertongue — the tripod at the head is the Tyburn Tree — with a report of Silvertongue’s last dying speech from the gallows, the final straw that pushed the Countess to suicide.
Patibular forks on a hill, after 1480. A patibular fork was a gallows that consisted of two or more columns of stone, with a horizontal beam of wood resting on top. Placed high and visible from the main public thoroughfare, it signalled the seat of high justice, the number of stone columns indicating the holder's title.
However, William Crichton, 2nd Earl of Dumfries, objected, so they buried it at the foot of the gallows. In 1891 a monument was erected to mark the spot. After the 1688 Glorious Revolution, the inhabitants of the parish of Cumnock, in token of their esteem for Peden, abandoned their ancient burial-place, and formed a new one round the gallows hill.
On 5 December 1592 he was again arrested; and in March 1593 he was tried, together with Barrowe, and condemned to death on a charge of "devising and circulating seditious books." After two respites, one at the foot of the gallows, [2] he was hanged on May 23, 1593, in Tyburn, Middlesex.
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These pits were often close to the residence of the baron or clan chief, and many gallows sites were close to water. [N 1] A pit or ditch therefore generally did not have to be constructed, making actual drowning pits rare features within the physical landscape. It is not clear what the ratio of male-to-female deaths was in feudal times.