The Hanged Man

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 87061

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:

Catlady:
> << "The Hanged Man" suggests to me that the area might have been 
part
> of the 19th Century riots that gripped the countryside as farming 
was
> mordernised (c.f. Ulverton, by Adam Thorpe). It suggests a 
particular
> hanging, perhaps one where the locals were in sympathy with the
> criminal rather than the victim. >>

Geoff:
In 86872, I previously made a passing reference to the 1685 Monmouth 
Rebellion, which saw a lot of executions in the West Country, which 
just /might/ place the Riddle house in that area.