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Updated: June 21, 2025
And if scientists, philosophers and hangmen from the world over should come to her cell, spreading before her books, scalpels, axes and nooses, and were to attempt to prove to her that Death existed, that a human being dies and is killed, that there is no immortality, they would only surprise her. How could there be no deathlessness, since she was already deathless?
"Nothing was left undone by the magistrates," says an eyewitness, with great approbation, "which could serve for the correction and amendment of the poor people." It was long before the judges and hangmen rested from their labors.
When the king sent his hangmen for the two women, God caused them to become invisible, and the bailiffs bad to return without accomplishing their errand.
An incidental reference to Weyer in "W. W.'s" account of the Witches taken at St. Oses is interesting: "... whom a learned Phisitian is not ashamed to avouche innocent, and the Judges that denounce sentence of death against them no better than hangmen." E. g., Discoverie of Witchcraft, 5. Ibid., 466-469. Ibid., 5-6.
Turn thy eyes on a middle-aged autocrat, who has been considered not ill-looking in his time. 'Oh, sir! what will Her Majesty say? cries Betsinda. 'Her Majesty! laughs the monarch. 'Her Majesty be hanged. Am I not Autocrat of Paflagonia? Have I not blocks, ropes, axes, hangmen ha? Runs not a river by my palace wall? Have I not sacks to sew up wives withal?
"'Yes, I must reach the capital as soon as possible. I must rescue the emperor. "'The roads are not safe, I hesitatingly replied, 'and if you have no passport "'You are an official, he interrupted me, 'perhaps a judge? "'I am what is called in England attorney for the crown. "'Ah, in England there are no judges, he violently said. 'In England are only hangmen!
An edict was published and affixed to the doors of all the churches, in which it was declared that breeches with braguettes were only to be worn by the public hangmen. Then the fashion passed away; for no one cared to pass for the public executioner.
Therefore, O king, stay the hand of the hangmen, let them not execute the Egyptians. The slave I speak of is still in the dungeon, and if the king will consent to summon him hither, he will surely interpret thy dreams." "Accursed are the wicked that never do a wholly good deed."
It satisfies one sense of the fitness of things that Cranmer himself perished at the stake. Becon taught that the duty of magistrates with regard to heretics was to punish them "yea, and also to take them out of this life." This same Becon called upon the temporal rulers to "be no longer the pope's hangmen." He preferred their being the hangmen of Protestantism.
They avowed that they could no longer trust the royal word, since, so soon after Egmont's departure, the King had written despatches so much at variance with his language, as reported by the envoy. There was nothing, they said, clement and debonair in these injunctions upon gentlemen of their position and sentiments to devote their time to the encouragement of hangmen and inquisitors.
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