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TSR69
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 Posted: Mon, 26th Dec 2016 05:51 Post subject: The London Gallows |
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| Quote: | The London Gallows were pirates were hanged.
For nearly 400 years, convicts like Captain William Kidd met a gruesome end at these gallows on the River Thames. Their bodies were often displayed for months afterward
For 25 years, Captain George Cusack had terrorised the seas. Now, looking over the waters he knew so well, it was his turn to face terror.
It was 18 January 1674. He had already spent six months in prison – excepting a near-successful escape which saw him shimmy through a chimney, down a rope and into the streets of London.
As the 1676 pamphlet “The Grand Pyrate: or, The Life and Death of Capt George Cusack the Great Sea-Robber” put it: Cusack was found in Holborn, “in Bed with a Woman”, rumoured to be his own sister. Recaptured just before his appearance at the Old Bailey, he stood trial with seven others in his pirate gang. After an hour’s deliberation by the jury, the sentence came down: “That they should be hang’d till they were dead.”
Six of the eight pirates had their sentences commuted to a life of service in the British navy. Cusack was not so lucky.
Over 350 years ago, Cusack helped lead a band of sea-faring criminals accused of robbery, among other offences. Along with Simon Harcourt, the other ringleader, he was paraded from Newgate Prison to the River Thames. At the head of the procession was the marshal of the Admiralty (or his deputy) carrying a silver oar, the symbol of the authority of the High Court of Admiralty. |
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http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20161216-the-london-gallows-where-pirates-were-hanged
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tonizito
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| Posted: Mon, 26th Dec 2016 13:00 Post subject: |
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London gallows morphed into pirates and were hanged? For morphing into a pirate or due to pirate activities? 
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