10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GALLOW TREE»
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gallow tree in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gallow tree and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Poll for a Knight of the Shire to Represent the County ...
Nichols, John, Market-place Nicholfon, Jofeph, Gallow-tree-gate Nixon, William,
Belgrave-gate Norton, Hudfon, South-gate Nutt, John, Humberfton-gate Nutt,
James, Gallow-tree-gate O. Ogden, Richard, Aid. Mill-ftone-Iane Ogden, Richard,
jun ...
Leicestershire (England),
1775
2
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
17 ' Little did my father think, Whan he brought me our the sea, That he wad see
me yellow locks Hang on a gallow's tree. 18 ' Little did my mither think Whan she
brought me fra hame, That she maught see my yellow loks Han[g] on a ...
Francis James Child,
2013
3
The Poll for a Knight of the Shire, to Represent the County ...
Gallow tree-gate; his own ' Two h'lciliiages, Swine-market; Tho. Brown Meli. hy
Nicholas's Church; his own Ditto, Barkby-lanc; his own Ditto, Silver-Greet; David
Ball Ditto, Prier-lane; _lohn Houfe Ditto, Church-gate ; his own Dino, ...
4
A Copy of the Poll for Members to Represent the Borough of ...
Kichard, Horse-pool-street, q. Roberr, St. Martins, NuU, Abraham, gen.
Waldegrave's drag. Charles, Rowell Cornélius Thomas, Ùppingham David,
Kiddlington on thcGreen,Oxon. James, Gallow-tree-gate, Leic, James,
Uppingham John, do.
Leicester (England),
1768
5
The Mobiad; Or, Battle of the Voice: An Heroic-comic Poem, ...
... Propriety enough put into the Mouth of a Devonshire Ploughman, &c. We seem
to continue the Use of the Word in that of Gallows, or Gallow-Tree, signifying the
Terrifying Tree, or Tree of Terror. Were Bacon Sows in Years too stricken found?
6
A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
GAL GAM Alas, Sir, are you here ? things that love night Love not such nights as
these; the wrathful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the night, And make them
keep their caves. Lear, iii. 2. Spenser uses gallow-tree, for gallows, F. Q. II. v. 26.
7
A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
Spenser uses gallow-tree, for gallows, F. Q. II. v. 26. V. iv. 22., &c., which might
well be supposed to mean tree of terror, or terrible tree, though it is usual to
derive it otherwise. GAI.LOWGLASSES. Heavy-armed foot soldiers of Ireland,
and the ...
8
Hudibras: In three parts, written in the time of the late wars
No porter's burthen pass'd along, 39O But serv'd for burthen to his song; Each
window like a pill'ry appears, With heads thrust through nail'd by the ears ; All
trades run in as to the sight Of monsters, or their dear delight, 595 The gallow tree
, ...
Now take thy wife, thou K[ing] Harry, & loue her as thou shold ; thy wiffe shee is a[
s] true to thee as stone that lies on the castle wall." asks her forgiveness, and
proelaims her true. the Lazar vnder the gallow tree 204 was a pretty man & small,
...
John Wesley Hales, Frederick James Furnivall,
1867
10
The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
... the Hudson is enveloped with an impervious vapor; yet above it, bathed in
sunlight, rise the blue Palisades, and the mountain-heights that erewhile looked
down upon Annns, the unfortunate Franco~British officer, struggling on ' gallow-
tree.