. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. d hanging from atree in Eastern Bengal, and thetradition was that the criminalswere hung up alive. In Notes and Queries for the 23rd July, 1802, Nemo mentions tliat hehad lately in reading found the word gemmace used as a noun to denotethe iron cage in which the corpse of the convict posthumously exposed wasenclosed when suspended from the gibbet. He has been unable to find theword gemmace in any dictionary, and is desirous of knowing its suggests whether it has any connection with the obsolete word gemmels
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. d hanging from atree in Eastern Bengal, and thetradition was that the criminalswere hung up alive. In Notes and Queries for the 23rd July, 1802, Nemo mentions tliat hehad lately in reading found the word gemmace used as a noun to denotethe iron cage in which the corpse of the convict posthumously exposed wasenclosed when suspended from the gibbet. He has been unable to find theword gemmace in any dictionary, and is desirous of knowing its suggests whether it has any connection with the obsolete word gemmels(a pair of hinges), supposing that such a frame-work as that depicted (fig. 11)was opened by a hinge down the back, following the line of the vertebrae,and rivetted over the chest and abdomen. The cage figured in the margindoes not appear to have been fastened in this manner, but, apparently, wasdivided horizontally at the waist, and the two parts connected by rings, butthat was not of European contraction. The word gemmel is still in use inheraldry, signifying a CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS (Domestic Series) of the reign ofCharles I., 1645-47. Preserved in Her Majestys Public Record Office. Editedby William Douglas Hamilton, , of the Public Record Office and theUniversity of London. Under the direction of the Master of the Rolls, andwith the sanction of Her Majestys Secretary of State for the Home Depart-ment. London : Printed for Her Majestys Stationery Office by Eyre andSpottiswoode, Printers to the Queens most excellent Majesty, 1891. The last volume of the Domestic State Papers edited by Mr. W. D. Hamiltonwas noticed in Vol. XIV. of our Transactions, p. 371. It brought down thehistory of that unhappy period to the fatal battle of Naseby, after whichthe unfortunate Kings affairs became almost hopeless, and the Royalist Notices of Recent Archaeological Publications. 149 leaders proportionately depressed. The State Papers calendared in thepresent volume contain the n
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