| 1846 - 602 стор.
...the pillory ; but welve years later one Mrs. Hicks and her daughter (nine years of age !) were hanged For selling their souls to the devil and raising a storm, by putting on their stockings inside-out and making a lather of soap ! Holt was called to the bar in I663,... | |
| George Blair - 1845 - 298 стор.
...than the march of improvement in England might have led us to expect ; for " in 1716, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon...off their stockings, and making a lather of soap." This memorable and crowning atrocity, was the last of the kind perpetrated in England ; and the whole... | |
| William Alexander Mackinnon - 1846 - 428 стор.
...and her daughter, the latter of whom was only nine years of age, were found guilty at Huntingdon of selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap : both were hanged for that offence. Sprenger, in Germany, and Bodinus and Delrio, in France, have... | |
| 1846 - 610 стор.
...pillory ; but twelve years later one Mrs. Hicks and her daughter (nine years of age !) were hanged for selling their souls to the devil and raising a storm, by putting on their stockings inside-out and making a Inther of soap ! Holt was callrd to the bar in 1663,... | |
| William Alexander Mackinnon - 1849 - 424 стор.
...and her daughter, the latter of whom was only nine years of age, were found guilty at Huntingdon of selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap : both were hanged for that offence. Sprenger, in Germany, and Bodinus and Delrio, in France, have... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1850 - 776 стор.
...at liberty. In the year 1716, a woman and her daughter, — the latter only nine years of age, — were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap. This appears to have been the last judicial execution in England. From that time to the year 1736,... | |
| New York State Agricultural Society - 1851 - 820 стор.
...England were in 1716, when a Mrs. Hicks and her young daughter were hanged, for selling their souls, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap. In this country, the negative merit may be claimed, that no judicial executions occurred after 1692.... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1851 - 1228 стор.
...England were in 1716, when a Mrs. Hicks and her young daughter were hanged, for selling their souls, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap. In this country, the negative merit maj be claimed, that no judicial executions occurred after 1692.... | |
| Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 стор.
...in verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling ofF stockings and making a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1852 - 346 стор.
...set at liberty. In the year 1716, a woman and her daughter—the latter only nine years of age—were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap. This appears to have been the last judicial execution in England. From that time to the year 1736,... | |
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