 | John Britton, John Hodgson - Architecture - 1812 - 1036 pages
...honourable family of the Savilles.* THE GIBBET LAW Forms a peculiar feature in the history of Halifax. " The inhabitants within the forest of Hardwick had...stolen out, or within the liberty of the said forest, either hand-habtud, back-beraud, or confessand, any commodity of the value of thirteen pence half-penny,... | |
 | John Bigland - 1815 - 1038 pages
...Forms a peculiar feature in the history of Halifax. " The in» habitants within the forest of llardwick had a custom, from time immemorial, that if a felon...stolen out, or within the liberty of the said forest, either hand-habend, back-berand, or confessand, any commodity of the value of thirteen pence half-penny,... | |
 | Samuel Lewis - Great Britain - 1831 - 568 pages
...co-extensive with the parish of Halifax. The inhabitants within this forest had a custom, observed from time immemorial, that if a felon were taken within their liberty, with goods stolen either out of or withintheliberty of the said forest, of the value of thirteenpence halfpenny, he should,... | |
 | 1832 - 618 pages
...vol. Ш. page 241—246. THE gibbet law forms a very peculiar ieature in the history of Halifax. " The inhabitants within the forest of Hardwick had...stolen, out or within the liberty of the said forest, either hand-habend, back-berand, or confessand, any commodity of the value of thirteen pence halfpenny,... | |
 | Edward Parsons - Bradford (West Yorkshire, England) - 1834 - 528 pages
...SECTION III. THE GIBBET LAW. The Gibbet Law forms a very peculiar feature in the history of Halifax. " The inhabitants within the forest of Hardwick had...stolen out, or within the liberty of the said forest, either hand-habend, back-berand, or confessand, any commodity of the value of thirteen pence half-penny,... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 370 pages
...waters, is situated in this forest. From Bentley's account of Halifax and its gibbet law, we learn, that " the inhabitants within the forest of Hardwick...taken within their liberty, with goods stolen out of, or within the liberty of the said forest, either hand-habend, back-berand, or confessand, any commodity... | |
 | John Crabtree - Halifax (England) - 1836 - 604 pages
...inhabitants within the forest of Hardwick, claimed a custom from time immemorial, " that if a felon be taken within their liberty, with goods stolen out or within the liberty or precincts of the said forest, either hand habend, backberand, or confessand, cloth or any other... | |
 | England - 1848 - 670 pages
...Watson,- Bentley, in his ' Halifax anil its gibbet law,' p. 24, gives the following account of it : — " The inhabitants within the forest of Hardwick had...that if a felon were taken within their liberty, with gooiis stolen out, or within the liberty of the said forest, either hand' hallend, back-berand, or... | |
 | Great Britain - 1851 - 658 pages
...Watson. Bentley, in his ' Halifax and its gibbet law,' p. 24, gives the following account of it : — " The inhabitants within the forest of Hardwick had...stolen out, or within the liberty of the said forest, either handhabend, bvck-berand, or confessand, any commodity nl the value of thirteen pence halfpenny,... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1851 - 460 pages
...gibbet. Bentley, in his history of Halifax, gives the following account of this inequitable penal law : " The inhabitants within the forest of Hardwick had a custom, from time immemorial, that if a felon was taken within their liberty, with goods stolen out or within the liberty of the said forest, either... | |
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... halfpenny, he should, after three markets, or meeting days, within the town of Halifax, next after such his apprehension, and being condemned, be taken to the gibbet, and have his head cut off from his body. 
