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| Gibbet Tree, Hawkshead | ||
| Gibbet Tree | ||
| locality:- | Hawkshead | |
| civil parish:- | Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tree | |
| locality type:- | gallows (site) | |
| coordinates:- | SD35549807 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3598 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
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| story:- |
Thomas Lancaster of High Wray Farm was found guilty at Lancaster Assizes of poisoning
his whole family with arsenic, 1672. He was hung and his body exposed here in chains |
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| "untill such tymes as hee rotted everye bone from other" |
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| for the death of seven souls, and the illness of several others. |
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