history of tljc 



By the Rev. S. E. V. FILLEUL, M.A. 



Speed's plan of the town of Dorchester, 

 published in 1610, the gallows is clearly 

 located at the angle of what is now called 

 Icen Way, and South Walks. It is depicted, 

 not in the gibbet form, such as one might 

 have frequently seen at cross-roads in the 

 country, with the wasted frames of high- 

 waymen hanging in irons, rattling out their 

 unwholesome sermons to passers by as long 

 as they held together ; but in the usual 

 pattern of two uprights with a crossbeam connecting them. 

 The drawing is suggestive enough of a certain width between 

 the two uprights, giving space enough for the two -wheel cart 

 to pass through that bore the victim and his coffin. Standing 

 between the posts, while the rope was being adjusted, it 

 formed the platform which relatives and friends mounted 

 to bid their Ictst farewells, and upon which the black-gowned 

 priest stood to the end exhorting to confession and repent- 

 ance. 



