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" On the twenty-eighth day of March he was conducted, amidst a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur;... "
Moral & Political Truth: Or Reflections Suggested by Reading History and ... - Page 210
by Jacob Franklin Heston - 1811 - 401 pages
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The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and ..., Volume 5

William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 514 pages
...conducted to the common place of execution amidst a vast concourse of the populace; stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur. His thighs, legs, and arms, were tora with red-hot pincers. 'Boiling...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to ..., Volume 10

David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 572 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur : his thighs, legs, and arms were torn with red hot pincers ;...
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The History of England: From the Revolution to the Death of George the ...

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 576 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the- Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur : his thighs, legs, and arms were torn with red hot pincers ;...
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The Flowers of Modern History: Comprehending on a New Plan, the Most ...

John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...Greve, the common place of execution, amidst a vast concourse of the pop.ulace ; stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur. His thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with red-hot pincers ;...
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The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the ..., Volume 15

David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 432 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in b'quid flaming sulphur: his thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with red hot pincers; boiling...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 15

David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 476 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur ; his thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with red hot pincers ;...
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The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death ..., Volume 2

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1836 - 840 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves : one of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur ; his thighs, legs, and arms were torn with red-hot pincers ;...
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pt. II. From the peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the peace of Paris in 1763

William Russell - Europe - 1839 - 620 pages
...conducted to the common place of execution, amid a vast concourse of the populace, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur. His thighs, legs, and arms-were torn with red-hot pincers. Boiling...
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Containing modern history, to the outbreak of the French Revolution

Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Grève, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burned in liquid flaming sulphur ; bis thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with redhot pincers ;...
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The History of England: From the Revolution to the Death of George ..., Volume 3

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1848 - 530 pages
...a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur ; his thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with red-hot pincers ;...
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