Halifax Gibbet

Halifax Gibbet (Accepted)

Halifax Gibbet (Accepted)

The Halifax Gibbet was an instrument of execution, more modernly called a “guillotine”:  a heavy blade, sliding down in its frame to decapitate the condemned.  It was hard at work in Halifax as early as the 13th Century [Alister Kershaw, The History of the Guillotine, 1993, p.21]; but needless to say, it was never used in period armory.

Sean Holden bears:  Argent, a wooden Halifax Gibbet proper bladed sable.

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