an the richt yin reads... (roughly)

"From earliest times the Skirrid Inn was a public meeting house as well as aa alehouse and courts were held within its walls.

Between 1100 and 1485 Manorial Courts could have been staged.
It is assumed that the first floor was complete with judges retiring room.

It is at the bottom of the stairs were many of them are though to have met their end.

-hanging from a beam, upon which the scorch and drag marks of the rope can still be seen.

Although no exact or positive records exist, local legend that passes from generation to generation by word of mouth, suggests that upwards of 180 persons have been hanged at the Skirrid Inn between the 12th and 17th centuries.

The last, as the first, for sheep stealing, in the time of Oliver Cromwell.

The hanging cycle has come full circle."