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Incident

Id4620
Short DescriptionOrder to hang bodies of rebels at St Albans in chains
DetailsTo the bailiffs of St Albans. Order upon their allegiance and under pain of forfeiture on sight of these presents to cause chains of iron to be made, and the bodies of certain traitors and felons adjudged to be there hanged for their misdeeds in this insurrection, and to hang there so long as they should endure, to be brought again to the gallows wherever found and again hanged in chains as aforesaid; as the king is informed that divers evildoers have taken and removed them thence in contempt of the king and contrary to the said judgment.
LocationSt Albans,Hertfordshire
SourceTNA CCR 1381-1385 p. 5

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