Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-03-02

her guilty, until Jeffreys bulied and friob,ened
them into that false verdict When he had ex.
torted il from them, he said, Gentlemen. ift
had been one Of you, and she had been nv own
mother, would have found her guilty ;'-asI
dare say he would. He sentenced her 70 ba
burned alive that very afternoon. The clergy
Of the cathedral aud some others interfered in
her favor, and she was beheaded within a
week. AS high mark of his appreciation,
the king made Jeffreys Lord Chancellor and
he went on to DOrchesterj to Exeter, to Taun-
ton, and to Wells. II is astonishing, when we
read of the enormous injustice and barbarity of
this beast, to know that no one struck him dead
on The judgment seat. It was enough for any
man or woman To be accused by an enemy be-
fore Jeffreys, to be guilty Of high treason
One man who pleaded not guilty; he ordered TO
be taken out Of court upon the instant, and
hanged; and this SO terrified the prisoners III
general that they mostly pleaded guilty at
once. AT Dorchester alone, in the course of
few days, JefIseys hanged eighty persons,
besides whipping, transporting, imprisoning,
and selling as slaves, great numbers. He ex-
ecuted in all two hundred and fifty or three
hundred.
These executions took place among the
neighbnrs and friends Of the sentenced, in
'hirty-six towns and villages. Their bodies
were man9led, stepped in cauldrUns of boiling
pitch and tar, and hung up by the road sides,
IN the streets, over the very churches. The
sight and smell Of heads and limbs, The kissing
and bubbling Of The Internal cauldrUns, and
the tears and terr Of the people, were dread
ful beyond all description. One rustic, who
was forced TO steep the remains in the black
pot, was ever afterwards called Tom Boil
man. The hangman has ever since been
called Jack Keich because a man nf that name
went hanging and hanging all day long, il The
train Of Jeffreys. Yon will hear much OF The
horrors Of the French Revelation. Many and
terrible they were, there Is no doubt but
kno1C Of H0ihing ,corse, done Jy the mdddencd
people Of France in that ngfid time, than tras
done By The highest judge III England, ,ciA tho
erpress approval Of The King Of England, IL
the Bloody ASSiSe.
! Nor was even this all. Jeffreys was as
fond Of muney for himself as Of misery for
others, and he sold parlons by wholesale to FL
his pockets. The king ordered at one time,
thousand prisoners to be given to certain Of his
favOrites, in order that they might bargain
with them for their parduns Thuse young
ladies Of Taunton who had presented The Bible,
Were bestowed upon the maids Of honor at
court; and those precious ladies made very
bad bargains with them indeed = employing a
Quaker 10 drive the said bargains When the
Bloody Assize was at its most dismal height,
the king was diyerlng himself with horse
races in the very place where Mrs Lise had
been executed. When Jelfreys had done his
worst, and came home again, he was parlicu-
larly cOmplimenied In the Royal Gazette; and
when the king heard that through drunkenness
and raging he was very ill, his odiOus majesty
remarked that such another man could not
easily be found IN Eng Besides all this;
former sheriff Of London, named Cornish,
was hanged in sight Of his own house, after an
abominably conducted trial. for having had
share in the Rye House Plot, on evidences
given by Ramsey, which that villain was
obliged to confess, was directly opposed to the
evidence he had given on the trial OF Lord
Russell. And on The very same day, worthy
widow, named Elizabeth Gaunt; was burned
alive at TYburn, for having sheltered wretch,
who himself gave evidence against her. She
settled the fuel about her with her own hands,
SO that the flames should reach her quickly
and nobly said with her last breath, that she
had obeyed the sacred command Of God, to
give refnge to the outcast, and not to beiray
the wandercr.
After all this hanging, beheadng, burning,
boiling, mutilating, exposing robbing, trans
porting, and selling into slavery, of his un-
happy subjects, the king not unnaturally
thought that he could do whatever he would.
So he went TO work to change the religion Of
the country with all possible speed
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