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Old and New London
… Jest"Jack Ketch"Tyburn TicketsHogarth's "Tom Idle"The Gallows and its SurroundingsThe Story of the Penance of Queen … or burn, which ran by the spot, as above mentioned. The gallows were removed hither (as we have seen) from opposite … In connection with this last-named execution, even the gallows may be said to have its romantic side; for we read in …
Old and New London
… all Scotland's a nation epidemical. A Scot, when from the gallows-tree got loose, Drops into Styx, and turns a Soland …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… out and thrown on the fire prepared at the foot of the gallows, after which they were quartered in four quarters ( …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… the executioner, who shall hang him by one leg on a lofty gallows between the two columns of St. Mark, and that he be …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… Grol have surrendered and many have been punished by the gallows. After the arrival of the Archduke Leopold in …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… was brought forward and condemned to be hanged on the gallows on the following day, after being dragged through the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… to a felon's death, that is, to be dragged to the gallows, hung and quartered. But it is supposed that the two …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… was recently condemned to the extreme penalty, to wit the gallows, drawn at the horse's tail and so forth 1; but there …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… detained in the prisons here, have been condemned to the gallows, without regard to the offices of M. de Poygne. 5 …