an instrument anciently used for beheading criminals, resembling the guillotine of the French. It seems to have been first used in Britain within the limits of the forest of Hardwick. There is a machine of this kind in possession of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries at Edinburgh, introduced by the Regent Morton, who took a model of it as he passed through Halifax, and at length suffered by it himself. A machine precisely similar was used in Genoa in the beginning of the sixteenth century; and one is figured in the Symbolic of Bocchi, Bologna, 1574.