Hawkhurst Gang
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The Hawkhurst Gang was a notorious criminal organisation involved in smuggling throughout south-east England from 1735 until 1749. One of the more infamous gangs of the early 18th century, they extend
The Oak and Ivy Inn, Hawkhurst
The Mermaid Inn, Rye
Title page of book, written at the time, about the murder of the two men.
A Representation of members of the gang breaking open the King's Custom House at Poole.
Gibbeting
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Gibbeting is the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. Occasionally, the gibbet
Hawkhurst Gang
…between Hurst Green and Robertsbridge, shooting Carswell dead and capturing the soldiers. One of the smugglers, George Chapman, was later executed and gibbeted in his home village of Hurst Green. On one occasion when the gang was drinking at the Mermaid Inn in Rye, some twenty of them visited the nearby Red…
Captain Kidd, who was tried and executed for piracy, depicted hanging in chains
The gibbet in which Marie-Josephte Corriveau was exhibited after her execution, the "cage" of La Corriveau
The body of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in his gibbet cage in 1738
Combe Gibbet, a replica gibbet in Berkshire