Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth Century EnglandVintage Books, 1942 - 298 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... death . In the reign of Anne executions were so frequent that men made jokes about them ; jokes , it must be remembered , not about what they heard tell of , but about what they themselves went to watch . Hanging was the commonest but ...
... death . In the reign of Anne executions were so frequent that men made jokes about them ; jokes , it must be remembered , not about what they heard tell of , but about what they themselves went to watch . Hanging was the commonest but ...
Sivu 247
... death . " The number of such felonies had increased during the century . At no time do the nation's legislators seem to have reflected on the penal system they were creating , but went ahead piling up capi- tal offences in a kind of ...
... death . " The number of such felonies had increased during the century . At no time do the nation's legislators seem to have reflected on the penal system they were creating , but went ahead piling up capi- tal offences in a kind of ...
Sivu 248
... deaths for trifling offences , jurors — in the full sight of their guilt - acquitted them . And even of those convicted , by no means all were put to death : of 1,121 persons condemned to die at the Old Bailey between 1749 and 1772 ...
... deaths for trifling offences , jurors — in the full sight of their guilt - acquitted them . And even of those convicted , by no means all were put to death : of 1,121 persons condemned to die at the Old Bailey between 1749 and 1772 ...
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