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Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… master, and Vogelberg's execution. According to them, the executioner, holding his sword in his hand, stated that the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of that house, and consigned the abbot to the hands of the executioner for his share in the "Pilgrimage of Grace," made …
Old and New London
… an Irish nobleman, Lord Mountnorris, personating an executioner, holding an axe in his hands, whilst his face was …
Old and New London
… by one blow ended in the hangman's strangling rope and the executioner's cruel knife. In the May following a man of …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… their villany, and each of them contend to be reputed his executioner, professing that they would have done it in the …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… but stopped, else most certainly he would become his own executioner; for his spirit is great, and his tongue …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… money, he immediately chopps of their heads, having his executioner to that purpose not farr off; in so much as a …