Female Executions by Geoffrey Abbott

Author:Geoffrey Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 2013-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

The ghastly execution was carried out in the marketplace in Winchester, the frail 71-year-old lady kneeling over the block and submitting to decapitation without resistance, onlookers averring that 'she died with serene courage'. Only one blow of the axe was necessary.

Although a happy ending to this tragic episode is not possible, it is of some consolation to know that the baddies got their come-uppance. Following the Revolution of 1688, James II went into exile on the Continent, William and Mary accepted the Throne of England, and Parliament annulled the judgement passed on Dame Alice Lisle (not that it did much good). The hunt was on for Judge Jeffreys and he was captured in a tavern near the Thames, imprisoned in the Tower of London, and sentenced to death. He was known to suffer from cirrhosis of the liver due to his lifelong addition to brandy, and regrettably escaped the axe, for on the morning of 19 April 1689 he was found dead in his cell in the Bloody Tower.

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