Executions and executioners - England - Early works to 1800
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Truth brought to light, or, The last words of a dying-man : being the speech of William Dillon Esquire, executed the twenty fifth of February, 1662, for the death of J. Web, lately killed in a frey in Long-Acre.
Dillon, WilliamDate: [1662]- Books
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The maner of the beheading of Duke Hambleton, the Earl of Holland and the Lord Capell : in the Pallace-Yard at Westminster on Friday the 9th of March, 1648, with the substance of their severall speeches upon the scaffold immediately before they were beheaded.
James SibbaldDate: 1648- E-books
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A true copy of the paper left by Mr. William Gregg , who suffered for high-treason the 28th day of April, 1708.
Gregg, William d. 1708.Date: 1708- Books
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The chiefe heads of Mr. John Sares speech : and other passages at the time of his execution at West-Chester; he being the portliest man the three kingdomes afforded, whose coffin was two yards and a halfe in length, yet too short to containe his corps; he suffered the 20th day of October, 1651.
Sares, John, -1651Date: [1652]- Books
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Certain considerations against the vanities of this world, and the terrors of death / VVritten by Doctor John Hewit, and delivered to a friend, a little before his death on Tower Hill, June the 8. 1658.
Hewitt, John (Accomptant)Date: In the year of our Lord 1658