PENNIES AS PILGRIM VOWS IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
n the early 1290s a Welshman named William Cragh, charged with arson and thirteen counts of homicide, was condemned to death by William de Briouze, the marcher lord of Gower in South Wales. Cragh’s hanging took place in November 1291 on a hill outside Swansea Castle. The execution was not routine as the gallows collapsed and he had to be strung up again. His body was removed to a nearby house,
