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[td][/td] [td]The [[Murder Act 1751]] ([[25 Geo. 2]]. c. 37) stipulated that "in no case whatsoever shall the body of any murderer be suffered to be buried";<ref name="Johnson">Dr D. R. Johnson, [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anatomy1.html Introductory Anatomy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104162600/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anatomy1.html |date=4 November 2008 }}, Centre for Human Biology, (now renamed [http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/ Faculty of Biological Sciences], [[Leeds University]]), Retrieved 17 November 2008</ref> the cadaver was either to be publicly dissected or left "hanging in chains".<ref name="Johnson" /> The use of gibbeting had been in decline for some years before it was formally repealed by the '''{{visible anchor|Hanging in Chains Act 1834}}''' ([[4 & 5 Will. 4]]. c. 26).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bennett|first=Rachel E.|title=The Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834|series=Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Afterlife|publisher=Palgrave|year=2017|isbn=978-3-319-62017-6|page=188}}</ref> In Scotland, the final case of gibbeting was that of Alexander Gillan in 1810.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bennett|first=Rachel E.|title=The Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834|series=Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Afterlife|publisher=Palgrave|year=2017|isbn=978-3-319-62017-6|page=228}}</ref> The last two men gibbeted in England were William Jobling and James Cook, both in 1832. Their cases are good examples of the changing attitudes toward the practice.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gatrell|first=V A C|title=The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868|pages=268β269|publisher=OUP|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-285332-5|year=1994}}</ref>[/td]
[td]The [[Murder Act 1751]] ([[25 Geo. 2]]. c. 37) stipulated that "in no case whatsoever shall the body of any murderer be suffered to be buried";<ref name="Johnson">Dr D. R. Johnson, [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anatomy1.html Introductory Anatomy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104162600/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anatomy1.html |date=4 November 2008 }}, Centre for Human Biology, (now renamed [http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/ Faculty of Biological Sciences], [[Leeds University]]), Retrieved 17 November 2008</ref> the cadaver was either to be publicly dissected or left "hanging in chains".<ref name="Johnson" /> The use of gibbeting had been in decline for some years before it was formally repealed by the Hanging in Chains Act 1834 ([[4 & 5 Will. 4]]. c. 26).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bennett|first=Rachel E.|title=The Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834|series=Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Afterlife|publisher=Palgrave|year=2017|isbn=978-3-319-62017-6|page=188}}</ref> In Scotland, the final case of gibbeting was that of Alexander Gillan in 1810.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bennett|first=Rachel E.|title=The Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834|series=Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Afterlife|publisher=Palgrave|year=2017|isbn=978-3-319-62017-6|page=228}}</ref> The last two men gibbeted in England were William Jobling and James Cook, both in 1832. Their cases are good examples of the changing attitudes toward the practice.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gatrell|first=V A C|title=The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868|pages=268β269|publisher=OUP|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-285332-5|year=1994}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]William Jobling was a miner hanged and gibbeted for the murder of Nicholas Fairles, a [[colliery]] owner and local [[magistrate]], near [[Jarrow]], [[Durham, England|Durham]]. After being hanged, the body was taken off the rope and loaded into a cart and taken on a tour of the area before arriving at Jarrow Slake, where the crime had been committed. Here, the body was placed into an iron gibbet cage. The cage and the scene were described thus:[/td]
[td]William Jobling was a miner hanged and gibbeted for the murder of Nicholas Fairles, a [[colliery]] owner and local [[magistrate]], near [[Jarrow]], [[Durham, England|Durham]]. After being hanged, the body was taken off the rope and loaded into a cart and taken on a tour of the area before arriving at Jarrow Slake, where the crime had been committed. Here, the body was placed into an iron gibbet cage. The cage and the scene were described thus:[/td]
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[td][/td] [td]The [[Murder Act 1751]] ([[25 Geo. 2]]. c. 37) stipulated that "in no case whatsoever shall the body of any murderer be suffered to be buried";<ref name="Johnson">Dr D. R. Johnson, [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anatomy1.html Introductory Anatomy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104162600/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anatomy1.html |date=4 November 2008 }}, Centre for Human Biology, (now renamed [http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/ Faculty of Biological Sciences], [[Leeds University]]), Retrieved 17 November 2008</ref> the cadaver was either to be publicly dissected or left "hanging in chains".<ref name="Johnson" /> The use of gibbeting had been in decline for some years before it was formally repealed by the '''{{visible anchor|Hanging in Chains Act 1834}}''' ([[4 & 5 Will. 4]]. c. 26).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bennett|first=Rachel E.|title=The Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834|series=Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Afterlife|publisher=Palgrave|year=2017|isbn=978-3-319-62017-6|page=188}}</ref> In Scotland, the final case of gibbeting was that of Alexander Gillan in 1810.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bennett|first=Rachel E.|title=The Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834|series=Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Afterlife|publisher=Palgrave|year=2017|isbn=978-3-319-62017-6|page=228}}</ref> The last two men gibbeted in England were William Jobling and James Cook, both in 1832. Their cases are good examples of the changing attitudes toward the practice.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gatrell|first=V A C|title=The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868|pages=268β269|publisher=OUP|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-285332-5|year=1994}}</ref>[/td]
[td]The [[Murder Act 1751]] ([[25 Geo. 2]]. c. 37) stipulated that "in no case whatsoever shall the body of any murderer be suffered to be buried";<ref name="Johnson">Dr D. R. Johnson, [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anatomy1.html Introductory Anatomy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104162600/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anatomy1.html |date=4 November 2008 }}, Centre for Human Biology, (now renamed [http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/ Faculty of Biological Sciences], [[Leeds University]]), Retrieved 17 November 2008</ref> the cadaver was either to be publicly dissected or left "hanging in chains".<ref name="Johnson" /> The use of gibbeting had been in decline for some years before it was formally repealed by the Hanging in Chains Act 1834 ([[4 & 5 Will. 4]]. c. 26).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bennett|first=Rachel E.|title=The Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834|series=Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Afterlife|publisher=Palgrave|year=2017|isbn=978-3-319-62017-6|page=188}}</ref> In Scotland, the final case of gibbeting was that of Alexander Gillan in 1810.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bennett|first=Rachel E.|title=The Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834|series=Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Afterlife|publisher=Palgrave|year=2017|isbn=978-3-319-62017-6|page=228}}</ref> The last two men gibbeted in England were William Jobling and James Cook, both in 1832. Their cases are good examples of the changing attitudes toward the practice.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gatrell|first=V A C|title=The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868|pages=268β269|publisher=OUP|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-285332-5|year=1994}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]William Jobling was a miner hanged and gibbeted for the murder of Nicholas Fairles, a [[colliery]] owner and local [[magistrate]], near [[Jarrow]], [[Durham, England|Durham]]. After being hanged, the body was taken off the rope and loaded into a cart and taken on a tour of the area before arriving at Jarrow Slake, where the crime had been committed. Here, the body was placed into an iron gibbet cage. The cage and the scene were described thus:[/td]
[td]William Jobling was a miner hanged and gibbeted for the murder of Nicholas Fairles, a [[colliery]] owner and local [[magistrate]], near [[Jarrow]], [[Durham, England|Durham]]. After being hanged, the body was taken off the rope and loaded into a cart and taken on a tour of the area before arriving at Jarrow Slake, where the crime had been committed. Here, the body was placed into an iron gibbet cage. The cage and the scene were described thus:[/td]
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