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	gallows, Cumbria
county:-	Cumbria
	Jack Ketch Lord Scrope's Tree
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	In 1600, the government of Elizabeth I had the clan Graeme to give a bond of surety for one another's good behaviour, they numbered more than four hundred fighting men. There was Muckle Willie, and Mickle Willie, and Nimble Willie, and many a Willie more. But the execution of Hughie the Graeme was none the less grievous.
	"Gude Lord Scroope's to the hunting gane. He has ridden o'er moss and muir; And he has grippit Hughie the Graeme, For stealing o' the Bishop's mare."
	"Then they have grippit Hughie the Graeme, And brought him up through Carlisle toun; The lasses and lads stood on the walls, Crying, 'Hughie the Graeme, thou'se ne'er gae doun.'"
	But hanged on the gallows he was.

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