This yere, the first daye of September, beinge Sondaye, at Clerkenwell, where the wrestlinge is kept, after the wrestlinge was done, there was hanged on a payre of gallowes, newe made, in the same place, the hangman of London and two more for robbinge a bouth in Bartlemewe fayre, which sayd hangman had done execution in London since the Holy Mayde of Kent was hanged, and was a conninge butcher in quarteringe of men.
A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559
On this day..
- 1938: Nikolai Bryukhanov, hung by his balls
- 1662: Claude Le Petit, dirty poet
- 1999: David Leisure, mob war veteran
- 1914: Frédéric Henri Wolff, the first Frenchman executed during World War I
- 1876: Hillary Page, the Chesterfield fire fiend
- 1944: Jacques Stosskopf
- 1916: Kosta Kromphold
- 1942: Henryk Landsberg, Lvov Judenrat
- 1987: Moses Jantjies and Wellington Mielies, after the Langa massacre
- 1863: Peyton Farquhar, in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- 1714: Maria Mouton and her slave Titus, lovers
- 1851: Narciso Lopez, filibuster
The fact that the author referred to Elizabeth Barton as the “Holy” Maid Of Kent, rather than the “Mad” Maid Of Kent could have gotten the author in a helluva lot of trouble, because King Henry VIII was extremely petty, revengeful, and spiteful that way. That author had some sand, I tell you what…
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