Cases did occur, however, where confinement in a gibbet was itself the sentence which ultimately brought death, mainly from exposure and starvation. This was the fate suffered by Andrew Mills, a farm servant who, on 28 January 1683, murdered his master’s three children, John, Jane and Elizabeth B...
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