Olde London Punishments by David Brandon

Author:David Brandon
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780750952705
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

The Carpenters Arms near Marble Arch, which was said to have bought the old movable gallows and used for them as stands for beer barrels.

It is not surprising that the authorities eventually withdrew hangings from the public gaze. The scaffold crowds had adamantly refused to play the role expected of them. They appropriated the occasion for their own purposes. They protested, they scoffed, they mocked, they were irreverent and at times their behaviour became riotous enough to alarm the forces of law and order. The State might have controlled the theatre of punishment, but it had little hold over what happened during the performance. On one occasion, when two political radicals popular with the spectators were hanged, the Gentlemen’s Magazine indignantly reported that ‘the mob on this occasion behaved outrageously, insulted the Sheriffs, pulled up the gallows, broke the windows, destroyed the furniture, and committed other outrages’.

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