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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 devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap. This appears to have been the last judicial execution in England.
As long ago as 1716, Halley had conjectured that the Northern Lights were due to magnetic "effluvia," but there was no evidence on the subject forthcoming until Hiorter observed at Upsala in 1741 their agitating influence upon the magnetic needle. That the effect was no casual one was made superabundantly clear by Arago's researches in 1819 and subsequent years.
France was the first country to stem the tide of cruelty. In 1680 Louis XIV. "issued a proclamation prohibiting all future prosecutions for witchcraft; and directing that even those who might profess the art should only be punished as impostors." In England "the last execution was at Huntingdon, in 1716;" in Scotland, at Darnock, in 1722. Such fruit has borne the command of God from Sinai.
These "Knights"* set face toward the mountains in August, 1716. They had guides who knew the upcountry, a certain number of rangers used to Indian ways, and servants with food and much wine in their charge. So out of settled Virginia they rode, and up the long, gradual lift of earth above sea-level into a mountainous wilderness, where before them the Aryan had not come.
The soume I received this day, conform to the nearest computation I can make before several of the gentlemen, is 3227L. 2sh. 8d. Scots, of which I gave them notes. I shall wait your Grace's return, and ever am, "Your Grace's most obedient, faithful, "humble servant, Sic subscribitur, "John Grahame." 28th Nov. 1716 Killearn's Release. "Glasgow, 28th Nov. 1716.
But to drop into prose again, and have done with this iliad of odds and ends. Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, of establishing the first recorded pauper workhouse though not in connection with her poets, as might naturally be supposed. The building was completed and tenanted in 1716. Seven years later, an act was passed in England authorizing the establishment of parish workhouses there.
In this palace, in 1716, was given permission, by the Emperor Furrokh Seeur, to the Scotch physician, Gabriel Hamilton, the privileges that have gradually led up to the British conquest of the whole peninsula.
"To eat it, my good fellow, but not before I have paid for it." "But his holiness, the papa, might choose to charge one sequin for it." "Here is one sequin." The priest takes the money and goes away: war is over. The peasant tells me that he has served in the campaign of 1716, and that he was at the defence of Corfu.
"I am sensible I have troubled your Lordship with a very long letter, which I should be ashamed of, were I myself singly concerned; but where the honour of the King's Government is touched, I need make no apologie, and I shall only beg leave to add, that I am, with great respect, and truth, "My Lord, "yr. Lords most humble and obedient servant, "MONTROSE" "Chappellarroch, Nov. 19th, 1716.
Burke's History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. i. p. 329. See Letters and Petitions in the State Papers, No. iii. p. 1716. See Burke's Commoners, vol. i. p. 333. See Burke's Commoners, vol. i. p. 334. I am indebted to the present Mr. Craik, of Arbigland, for this correspondence.
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