Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-03-02

not guilty, he ordered to be taken out of court
upon the instant and hanged and this SO ter
rlfed the prisoners in general that they mostly
pleaded guilty at once. At Darcoster alone. in
the course Of few days, Jetfreys hanged eighty
people, besides whipping, transporting, impris.
onns and selling us slaves, great numbers. He
executed in all two hundred and fifty or three
hundred.
These executions took place among the neigh
bors and friends of the sentenced, in thirty-six
towns and villages Their bodies were mangled
stepped in caudrons of boiling pitch and tar,
and hung up by the road sides, in the streets,
over the churches The sight and smell of
heads and limbs, the Kissing and bubbling of
tne Internal cauldrons and the tears and terrors
OF the people, were dreadful beyond all descrip-
! tion' Ono rustic, who was forced to steep the
tremains in the black pot, was ever afterwards
called "Fon Bolman. !" Tue hgngilan las
ever since been called Jack Ketch, because a
man OF that name went banging, all day long,
in the train of Jeifrcys. You will hear much
Of tho great French Revolution. Many and
terrible they were, there is no douot bat /
hnov Of nothing ,porsc, done By the maddeaed
''pcople Of France in thm aufM time, than acas
doae 6ythe highest judge IN Englasd, ,cNh the
earress apprornl Of the Hing Of Engand, in
the Bloody Assi@e. Yt...
Nor was even this ALL Jcfreys was as fond
of money for himself as of misery for others,
and he sold pardonS wholesale to iill his pockets.
The king ordered at one time, thousand pris-
oncrs to be given to certain of his iavorites in
order that they might bargain with them for
their pardons. Those young ladies Of Taunton
who had presented the Bible, were b tow ed
upon the maids Of honor at court; and those
precious ladies made very lad bargains with
them, indecd-empoyins a Quaker to drive said
bargains. When the Bloody Assize was at its
most dismal height, the king was diverting him
self with horse races in the very pla:o where
Mrs. Lisl2 had been executed. When Jeffreys
had done his worst, and came home again, he
was particularly complimented in the Royal
Gazette; and when the king heard that through
drunkenness and raging he was very ill., his obi
ous Majesty remarked that such another man
could not easily be found in England Besides
all this, former sheriff of London, named
Cornish, was hanged in sight of his own house,
after an abominably conducted trial, for having
bad share in the Rye House Plot, on evidence
given by Rums9y, which that villain was obliged
to confess was directly opposed to the evidence
he had giver on the trial of Lord Russell. And
on 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, tat she had obeyed the sacred
fcun'mand of God, TO give refuge to the outcast,
and not 10 betray the wanderer.
After all this hanging, beheading, burning,
boiling, mutilNting, exposing, robbiug, trans
porting, and selling into slavery of his unhappy
subjects, the king not unnaturally thought that
he could do whatever he would. So he went to
change the religion of the country with all pos
sib!e speed"