If not a sparrow falls unheeded, these obscure martyrs may not have died in vain.
FOOTNOTES
[1] “My opinion is that we have gone too far in laying it [capital punishment] aside, and that it ought to be inflicted in many cases not at present capital. I think, for instance, that political offences should in some cases be punished with death. People should be made to understand that to attack the existing state of society is equivalent to risking their own lives” (“Hist. of the Criminal Law of England,” 1880, i. 478).
[2] Spelman, “Glossarium” (s.v. Furca) gives a notable instance of the drowning of a woman about A.D. 1200.
[3] Walsingham, Gesta Abbatum Monas. S. Albani, ed. Riley, i. 39-41.
[4] Chron. of the Reigns of Stephen, &c., ed. Howlett, ii. Preface p. 1.
[5] Matthew Paris, Chron. Maj., ed. Luard, v. 56-60, 369. The “Statute of Winchester,” 13 Edward I. (1285), enacted that trees and brushwood should be cut down for 200 feet in width on either side of highways between market towns.
[6] “De Corona,” book iii. Second Treatise, chap. i.
[7] “Subito enim et sine certa causa, quasi lymphatico metu correpti, de villa in villam cum cornuum strepitu, quod Anglice Uthes dicitur, fere per totam Angliam deduxerunt” (“Hist. Coll. of Walter of Coventry,” ed. Stubbs, ii. 206).