 | 1846 - 706 pagine
...in 1704. Mr Hathaway was convicted, and stood in the pillory ; but twelve years later one Mrs Hicks and her daughter (nine years of age !) were hanged...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 1663,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833 - 614 pagine
...acquittal. Yet, in 1716, Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling thensouls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings...soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated at about 30,000 ! The last victim executed in Scotland perished in the eighteenth... | |
 | 1830 - 480 pagine
...think, after all this, in 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon, for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap ! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pagine
...think, after all this, in 1716, Mrs. Hick« and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm, by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap ! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pagine
...1736, — show the extent of the legislative proceedings in regard to this imaginary crime there.f The judicial proceedings were checked chiefly by the...soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated at about 30,000 ! The last victim executed in Scotland perished in the eighteenth... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1833 - 570 pagine
...1736, — show the extent of the legislative proceedings in regard to this imaginary crime there.f The judicial proceedings were checked chiefly by the...and raising a storm by pulling off' stockings and malting a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated at about 30,000!... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 546 pagine
...1736, — show the extent of the legislative proceedings in regard to this imaginary crime there.f The judicial proceedings were checked chiefly by the...soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated at about 30,000 ! The last victim executed in Scotland perished in the eighteenth... | |
 | George Combe - 1835 - 422 pagine
...result was the same. Yet, in 1716, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders... | |
 | George Combe - 1835 - 442 pagine
...result was the same. Yet, in 1716, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off" their stockings and making a lather of soap! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1841 - 462 pagine
...reign of queen Elizabeth, was commemorated in an annual sermon at Huntingdon;1 and, in 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for...storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap.2 In Scotland, the executions for this offence are supposed to have been equally numerous. The... | |
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Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap... 
