Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

by George Burnham Ives

[131]. A man was boiled to death in 1531; a woman was burnt in 1571, and in 1575.—Holinshed, Chron. pp. 926, 1226, 1262.

[132]. Besant, Tudors, p. 379.

[133]. J. F. Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, p. 468.

[134]. Besant, Tudors, p. 380.

[135]. W. Andrews, Old-Time Punishments, p. 92.

[136]. Henry Brinklow’s Complaynt of Roderwyck Mors, J. M. Cowper’s ed. London, E. E. T. Society, 1874.

[137]. See Holinshed, Chronicles, pp. 1081, 1082.

J. Wilkes, Enc. Londinensis, iii. p. 891. London, 1810.

E. C. S. Gibson, Life of John Howard, p. 47. London, 1901.

[138]. See Besant, Tudors, p. 387.