 | John Debell Tuckett - 1816 - 922 pages
...rogues were trussed up apace, and that there was not one year commonly wherein three or four hundred were not devoured and eaten up by the gallows, in one place and another. And in spite of these sanguinary punishments, the country, by being invested with robbers... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - Ireland - 1829 - 542 pages
...rogues were trussed up apace, and that there was not a year commonly, wherein three or four hundred of them were not devoured and eaten up by the gallows in one place or another." Strype, speaking of one county only, Somersetshire, says, " forty persons had been there... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1834 - 692 pages
...death during his reign." He adds, that even in Elizabeth's reign, " rogues were trussed up apace;" and that there was not " one year commonly wherein...country continued in a dreadful state of disorder. Every part of the kingdom was infested with robbers and idle vagabonds, who, refusing to labour, lived by... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1834 - 692 pages
...description of England, says:—" In Elizabeth's time rogues were trussed up apace, and that there was not a year commonly wherein 300 or 400 of them were not devoured and eaten up by the gallows." " But," said the noble Lord, " we set the people to work, by the 43rd of this Queen, and the country... | |
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 666 pages
...description of England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, remarks that " rogóles were trussed up apace," and that there was not " one year ' commonly wherein...devoured and eaten up by the ' gallows in one place and another." In another passage of the same work he renarks, " Some do grudge at the great increase of... | |
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 662 pages
...of Queen Elizabeth, remarks that " rogues were trussed up apace," and that there was not " one jta ' commonly wherein 300 or 400 of them were not devoured and eaten up by the ' gallows in one place and another." In another passage of the same work he remarks, " Some do grudge at the great increase of... | |
 | Charles Spear - Capital punishment - 1844 - 266 pages
...SPECTATORS. 59 still trussed up apace," and there was not "oneySta commonly wherein three or four hundred of them were not devoured and eaten up by the gallows, in one place or another," so that the whole number of executions during her reign was not less than nineteen thousand,... | |
 | Charles Spear - Capital punishment - 1844 - 274 pages
...rogues were still trussed up apace," and there was not "one year commonly wherein three or four hundred of them were not devoured and eaten up by the gallows, in one place or another," so that the whole number of executions during her reign was not less than nineteen thousand,... | |
 | Charles Spear - Capital punishment - 1844 - 274 pages
..."rogu.es were still trussed up apace," and there was not "one year commonly wherein three or four hundred of them were not devoured and eaten up by the gallows, in one place or another," so that the whole number of executions during her reign was not less than nineteen thousand,... | |
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one year commonly wherein 300 or 400 of them were not devoured and eaten up by the gallows in one place and other." In spite of these sanguinary punishments the country continued in a dreadful state of disorder. Every 
