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Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… one hundred produced but ten; and as the Treasurers, who axe innumerable ( infiniti), have no method, and each of them …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… to await the fatal stroke. The headsman had lifted the axe to strike off his head, when there sprang upon the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… anything on their heads. The Gentlemen-Pensioners of the Axe walked at the sides, with hammers in hand, and clad in …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… the block, and the executioner struck off her head with an axe according to the custom of the country; he seized the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… the king, if he did not submit of his own accord to the axe. There was no disturbance in London on the day of the …