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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… on to the scaffold, his hands still unbound, and the executioner came near him to perform his office, Biron fell …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… people for the Jesuits putting to death, and that when the executioner showed his head and bade God save the King, there …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… desired God to strengthen him. And so kneeling down, the executioner also on his knees desiring him pardon, to whom he …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… and displeasure when I must see before my eyes my own executioner, so to say, as I must do when I am in the company …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… to make stay of such a mate, without making me the executioner, though if those which do evil should want, I …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… than such as were taken in those parts should want an executioner, he would serve for hangman himself. And farther …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… may be committed to the fire and that I myself be their executioner. Undated. Signed. Endorsed: "1603." p. ( 188. …