 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 in England closes.  Belgravia: A London Magazine - Página 251893Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 páginas
...to bring in verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, ¡Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1833 - 570 páginas
...them to bring in verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, 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... | |
 | George Combe - 1835 - 440 páginas
...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...soap! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of tnurders in England closes, the penal statutes against witchcraft being repealed in 1736, and the pieti.nded... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 546 páginas
...them to bring in verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England has been estimated... | |
 | George Combe - 1836 - 128 páginas
...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 mak. ing a lather of soap! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes,... | |
 | 1841 - 982 páginas
...them to bring in verdicts of acquittal. Yet, in 1716, Mrs Hickes and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap. The number of those put to death in England lias been estimated... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1841 - 462 páginas
...commemorated in an annual sermon at Huntingdon;1 and, in 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap.2 In Scotland, the executions for this offence are supposed to... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 páginas
...in 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their soule to the devil, and raising a storm, by pulling off...murders in England closes ; the penal statutes against witcheraft being repealed in 1736, and the pretended exercise of such arts being punished in future... | |
 | 1842 - 536 páginas
...the middle of the last century. So late as 1716, one Mrs. Hicks, and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off stockings and making a lather of soap; and in 1743, the repeal of the penal laws against witchcraft... | |
 | George Blair - 1845 - 298 páginas
...led us to expect ; for " in 1716, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising...off their stockings, and making a lather of soap." This memorable and crowning atrocity, was the last of the kind perpetrated in England ; and the whole... | |
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