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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… their neck, to be here fined, as not worth to die at the hangman's hatchet and gallows : I myself where and at what …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… those parts should want an executioner, he would serve for hangman himself. And farther writes in another that the Condi …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… manner, having in his company one that had long served the hangman of those parts, known to be a notable villain. This I …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… if he had her there, he could find in his heart to be her hangman, and to hang her at the yardarm. Henry Carye uttered …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… mine own brother were one of them, I myself would be his hangman, rather than he should escape. But such be the fruits …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… after his condemnation, and told him he looked more like a hangman than a judge, and that his place should have been at …
Old and New London
… that he might be witness of the horrible mutilation. The hangman, rubbing his bloody hands, asked him how he liked it. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… a Scot governed, and that the basest Englishman, even a hangman, was better than the best Scottishman. Ingram was …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… keep the bloody sponges and handkerchiefs that did the hangman service in the cutting off their ears. You may see …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… ccccxxvii., No. 39.] and publicly burnt by the hand of the hangman, which was done accordingly."] [June ?] 114. Another …