 ... execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead ; for, while you are still living, your bodies are to be taken down, your bowels torn out, and burnt before your faces ; your heads are to be then cut off, and your bodies...  London and Westminster: city and suburb - Page 39by John Timbs - 1868Full view - About this book
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...your crime ; which is, that you, and each of you (here hrs lordship named the prisoners severally), be taken to the place from whence you came, and from...God have mercy on your souls '" The whole of this pathetic address was heard with the most profound silence in the court, aud every eye was suffused... | |
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