Keywords: Minstrel condemned to the Gallows.png Hanging to Music A Minstrel condemned to the Gallows obtained permission that one of his companions should accompany him to his execution and play his favourite instrument on the ladder of the Gallows -- Fac-simile of a Woodcut in Pierre Michault's Doctrinal du Temps Présent small folio goth Bruges about 1490 Paul Lacroix http //www gutenberg org/etext/10940 Manners Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period 1876 http //www gutenberg org/files/10940/10940-h/images/fig350 png fig 350 End of 15th c author PD-old Hanging in art Bagpipers in art 15th-century woodcuts Black and white drawings of men 1490 |