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punishment existing now to what then used to be.” 
“Tt can hardly be conceived,” added Mr. Haggard, 
“that within this present century, such a thing should 
have occurred, as a man being left to hang in chains 
on a village common, as occurred here [East Braden- 
ham], and last year [1882] we found in the ground, 
near the stump of the gibbet now remaining, the 
cage in which he was suspended, and part of the 
skull remaining in it.” The ghastly object to which 
Mr. Haggard refers will be seen in a glass case in this” 
chamber of horrors, and in the same case is also the 
head portion of a similar gibbet-iron, used in suspend- 
ing the murderer Cliffen on Badley Moor, March 
26th, 1785. ‘The last time this disgusting practice 
was carried into effect was in 1834; but in the same 
year it was abolished by Act of Parliament. Previous 
to that time the country was studded over by these 
human scarecrows. 
Indications of weary hours passed by prisoners 
in this dismal dungeon will be seen in the rude 
scratchings and sculptures on the stones where 
apparently the scanty light which alone illumined this 
dreary abode was admitted. 
The Murderers’ Graves, 
From the prison to the grave in former times was 
too frequently the last short journey of many whom 
now we should consider as by no means past the 
hope of reform. Accordingly just outside the Castle, 
but within the enclosure, embedded in the west wall, 
will be observed fifteen tablets, bearing the initials of 
seventeen murderers of both sexes, with the dates of 
their executions, marking the spots in which they 
were interred, and with this melancholy exhibition, 
we will end our description of the Castle Museum 
and its contents. 
