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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… by her royal authority, appears to have employed the executioner, as a sort of arbiter elegantiarum, to ornament …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
Survey of London Monograph
… Lieutenant of the Tower begged him to change them, for the executioner to whom they would come as perquisites was but a … to exchange it for "a gown of friese," but gave the executioner "of that little money which was left him one …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… shall require [to] procure, find, and maintain a topman or executioner to execute all felons condemned to die'. 86 In …
Old and New London
… well remembered (says Mr. Timbs), as a child, seeing the executioner's axe flash in the sunshine as it fell upon the … "Hangman's Gains," as if built with the fees of some Tower executioner, should really have been "Ham and Guienne," for …
Old and New London
… felt the halter, or his eye caught the cold gleam of the executioner's axe, while he denies with the greatest …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… alone is the only Qualification necessary for the Executioner of such a Project: But would the Conquest be as …
Old and New London
… of you, good Christian people, this day." She refused the executioner's help, drew the white kerchief over her own eyes, and said to the kneeling executioner, "I pray you dispatch me quickly." Kneeling … to the scaffold, he said, "I care not how I die, by the executioner or by the people." He stopped under Laud's window …
Old and New London
… Countess of Salisbury, mother of Cardinal Pole. The executioner chased this old countess, who refused to lay her …