Note 28 — Chapter X · Ancient Punishments.
Reading edition
Rawlinson’s Ancient Monarchies, iii, 246.
Hanging was ordained by the Laws of Ina, in England, twelve hundred years ago. (Herbert’s Antiquities, p. 153.) Until 1783 Tyburn Tree, at the west end of Oxford Road (now street), was the usual place for execution of felons by hanging, in England.