BY
ALFRED MARKS
AUTHOR OF “WHO KILLED SIR EDMUND BERRY GODFREY?”
“HUBERT AND JOHN VAN EYCK: THE QUESTION OF
THEIR COLLABORATION CONSIDERED,”
ETC., ETC.
Who … began diligently and earnestly to prayse that strayte and rygorous iustice, which at that tyme was there executed vpon fellones, who as he sayde, were for the most part xx hanged together vpon one gallowes.—Sir Thomas More, Utopia, about 1516.
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Ther bith therfore mo men hanged in Englande in a yere ffor robbery and manslaughter, then ther be hanged in Ffraunce ffor such maner of crime in vij yeres.—Chief Justice Fortescue, about 1476.
Than stele they, or Rubbe they. Forsoth they can nat chuse,
For without Londe or Labour hard is it to mentayne,
But to thynke on the Galows that is a careful payne.