Talk:Jack Ketch

message: I took a few quick passes through this article due to a few run-on sentences and overuse of commas. It's possible that Ketch's reputation has been shaded too strongly to the dark side. He might've been notably inaccurate with Monmouth but this does not necessarily mean he was sadistic. It would take a proper historian to clear that up. :) - Anon Y. Mouse 21:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Run ons and overuse of commas?  I don't know what you're talking about, as I, at least, find no such mistakes in the prior versions, and the reputation is all that is available to historians, which is what is operative for any modern reader; therefore, I do not see how there are 'problems' to be addressed that can be addressed without the discovery of additional primary sources.  Also note that that previous sentence was properly punctuated.  Long does not mean "run on."  A run on is a specific grammatical mistake (use of a coordinating conjunction to join independent clauses without a comma).  Utgard Loki 15:12, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have removed the in popular culture section from the article as it unbalanced the article and was unreferenced. Before anyone considers re-adding any part of it, they should provide sources. Nev1 (talk) 01:33, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The quip is actually, "You'd better watch these two fellows, you know. They'd skin Jack Ketch alive and he'd never know they'd done it." http://downloadsubtitles.net/scrooge-en-4 --Userboy87 (talk) 13:24, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: In popular culture

message: For anyone interested, there are different accounts on how the execution of Monmouth was conducted:
* http://books.google.com/books?id=gQsbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60 (p60)
* http://books.google.com/books?id=bmpMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA765 (p765)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Smallman12q (talk • contribs) 19:09, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accounts 

message: I'm not sure where to put this:
Ketch is the immediate successor in the office of hangman to Edward Dun, who had in his turn succeeded Richard Brandon.(ref name="KetchDNB" /) 
* http://books.google.com/books?id=O3XnmANMk5IC&pg=PA244
Smallman12q (talk) 21:58, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not just integrate it into the text? I'm not sure though why it matters for Ketch's story that Dun succeeded Brandon. Malleus Fatuorum 22:12, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The google book link takes me to a page that is unavailable. What dates are given there? I find it very strange that "Ketch is thought to have taken office in 1663" and yet is "first mentioned ... January 14, 1676." Who thinks he began serving 12/13 years earlier? (There's no reference for the claim, which for that matter is made in both the first and second paragraphs of the article.) -- Idontcareanymore (talk) 03:37, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Successor

message: Did Monmouth beg for mercy from having Ketch as his executioner?Smallman12q (talk) 15:55, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mercy 

message: On 16 November 2007, after a visit to Madame Tussauds, user 62.56.51.147 added to the article that Jack Ketch was "an immigrant of Irish Extraction". He did not give a citation. I couldn't find any mention of it in either the Encyclopedia Brittanica entry for him, which explicitly mentions that he is English; or the Dictionary of National Biography entry (Vol 31), which is extensive about his time as executioner, but silent about his earlier life ( see http://archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio47stepgoog#page/n84/mode/2up )
Thomas Seccombe, the author of the entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, was the author of a biography entitled "Life of John Ketch, executioner", but I've been unable to lay my hands on it.
I wonder if anyone can find a reference earlier than 16 November 2007 for this? If not, I'll undo that particular edit.
Breandán Dalton (talk) 18:47, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 

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