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 34^ Hiftory of Do??ieJiic Manners The gallows and the wheel were inftruments of execution of fuch common ufe hi the middle ages that they were continually before people's eyes. Every town, every abbey, and almofi: every large manorial lord, had the right of hanging, and a gallows or tree with a man hanging upon it was fo frequent an objed in the country that it feems to have been No. r'i,-. Mediai-al Or ts of the Landj'capi almoft a natural ornament of a landfcape, and it is thus introduced by no means uncommonly in mediaeval manufcripts. The two examples given in our cut No. 233 are taken from the ilkmiinations in the manufcript of the romance of the " Chevalereux comte d'Artois," in the manufcript from which this romance was printed by M. Barrois.